Burbank, CA – The HPA Awards took place tonight, celebrating fifteen years honoring brilliant and transformational work by the individuals and companies raising the bar on storytelling.
Awards were given to individuals and teams working in eleven creative craft categories, recognizing outstanding contributions to color grading, sound, editing and visual effects for commercials, episodic and theatrical features.
The winners of the 2020 HPA Awards Creative Categories are:
Outstanding Color Grading – Theatrical Feature
WINNER: “Joker”
Jill Bogdanowicz // Company 3
“Ad Astra”
Gregory Fisher // Company 3
“Gretel & Hansel”
Mitch Paulson // EFILM, Company 3
“Jojo Rabbit”
Tim Stipan // Company 3
“Mulan”
Natasha Leonnet // EFILM, Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature
WINNER: “Watchmen – It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
Todd Bochner // Sim International
“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness – Last Exit to Brooklyn”
Juan Cabrera, Fran Lorite // LightBender
“Altered Carbon – Payment Deferred”
Bill Ferwerda // Deluxe Toronto, Company 3
“Catherine the Great – Episode 1”
Aidan Farrell // The Farm Group
“Greyhound”
Bryan Smaller // Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
WINNER: Ralph Lauren – “Deep Blue”
Tom Poole // Company 3
BMW – “A Mirror Into the Future”
Sofie Borup // Company 3
BMW – “This is Option 2”
Tom Poole // Company 3
Diet Coke – “Drink What Your Mama Gave Ya”
Dave Hussey // Company 3
NFL – “Next 100”
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature
Sponsored by Blackmagic Design
WINNER: “Parasite”
Jinmo Yang, ACE
“Ford v Ferrari”
Michael McCusker, ACE; Andrew Buckland, ACE
“Jojo Rabbit”
Tom Eagles, ACE
“Joker”
Jeff Groth, ACE
“The Two Popes”
Fernando Stutz
Outstanding Editing – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature (30 Minutes and Under)
Sponsored by Blackmagic Design
WINNER: “Insecure – Lowkey Trying”
Nena Erb, ACE
“Insecure – Lowkey Happy”
Mark Sadlek
“Insecure – Lowkey Losin’ It”
Daysha Broadway, Lucky Justice Productions Inc.
“The Righteous Gemstones – But the Righteous Will See Their Fall”
Craig Hayes
“What We Do in the Shadows – Resurrection”
Yana Gorskaya, ACE, Dane McMaster, FX Networks
Outstanding Editing – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature (Over 30 Minutes)
Sponsored by Blackmagic Design
WINNER: “Seven Worlds, One Planet: Asia”
Angela Maddick, BBC Studios Natural History Unit
“Mrs. America – Phyllis & Fred & Brenda & Marc”
Emily Greene, FX Networks
“Seven Worlds, One Planet: Australia”
Nigel Buck, BBC Studios Natural History Unit
“Watchmen – It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”
David Eisenberg, HBO
“Watchmen – This Extraordinary Being”
Anna Hauger
Outstanding Sound – Theatrical Feature
Sponsored by DTS
WINNER: “An American Pickle”
Michael Babcock, Jeremy Pierson, Brandon Spencer, Jeff Sawyer, Dan Kenyon // Sony Pictures
“IT: Chapter Two”
Bill R. Dean, Nancy Nugent, Michael Keller, Tim LeBlanc, Erick Ocampo, Randy Torres // Warner Bros.
“Joker”
Alan Robert Murray, Dean Zupancic, Tom Ozanich, Jason Ruder, Tod A. Maitland // Warner Bros.
“Les Misérables”
Jérôme Gonthier, Arnaud Lavaleix, Matthieu Autin, Marco Casanova // Srab Films
Outstanding Sound – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature
Sponsored by DTS
WINNER: “Star Trek: Picard – Et in Arcadia Ego Part 2”
Matthew E. Taylor, Todd Grace, Ed Carr, Tim Farrell, Sean Heissinger, Peter Devlin // Warner Bros.
“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness – Belly of the Beast”
Matthew Skelding, Lindsey Alvarez, Ali Hawkins, Al Sirkett, Tom Jenkins
“Away – Negative Return”
Jonathan Greasley, Darren King, Shaughnessy Hare, Dan Gamache, Jeffrey Dyal // King Soundworks
“Locke and Key – Welcome to Matheson”
Chris Cooke, Eric Apps, J.R. Fountain, Dustin Harris // Deluxe Toronto, Company 3
“Seven Worlds, One Planet: Australia”
Graham Wild, Tim Owens // BBC Studios Natural History Unit
Outstanding Visual Effects – Theatrical Feature
Sponsored by ZEISS
WINNER: “The One and Only Ivan”
Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Aghdami, Ben Jones, Santiago Colomo Martinez // Walt Disney Motion Picture Production
“The Aeronauts”
Louis Morin, Annie Godin, Christian Kaestner, Ara Khanikian // Amazon Studios
“IT: Chapter Two”
Fabrice Vienne, Vincent Desjardins, Christopher Nix, Jonathan Fleming-Bock, Dawid Borkiewicz // Rodeo FX Inc.
“Mulan”
Sean Faden, Diana Giorgiutti, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury, Hubert Maston // Walt Disney Motion Picture Production
“1917”
Guillaume Rocheron, Sona Pak, Greg Butler, Vijay Selvam, Richard Little // MPC
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episodic (Under 13 Episodes) or Non-theatrical Feature
Sponsored by ZEISS
WINNER: “Lost in Space – Shipwrecked”
Aladino Debert, Suzanne Foster, Victor Grant, Paul Chapman, Frankie Stellato // Digital Domain
“His Dark Materials – The Fight to the Death”
Russell Dodgson, James Whitlam, Dan May, Danny Hargreaves, William Todd-Jones // Bad Wolf
“Lost in Space – Ninety-Seven”
Troy Davis, Niklas Jacobson, Jenn Taylor, David Anastacio, Rafael Solórzano // Legendary TV
“The Umbrella Academy – Right Back Where We Started”
Everett Burrell, Jeff Campbell, Phillip Hoffman, Neishaw Ali, Carrie Richardson // Spin VFX
“The Umbrella Academy – Valhalla”
Everett Burrell, R. Christopher White, Libby Hazell, Aidan Martin, Paul Raeburn // Weta Digital
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episodic (Over 13 Episodes)
Sponsored by ZEISS
WINNER: “9-1-1 – Sink or Swim”
Jon Massey, Tony Pirzadeh, Bryant Reif, Brandon Criswell, David Rand // Fuse FX
“The Flash – Grodd Friended Me”
Armen V. Kevorkian, Joshua Spivack, Shirak Agresta, Christopher Grocock, Tanya Kevorkian // Encore VFX
“Grey’s Anatomy – It’s Raining Men”
Tim Carras, Andie Eikenberg, Bill Parker, Nick Chamberlain, Casi Blume // Barnstorm VFX
“NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service – The Arizona”
Matt Von Brock, Javier Gallego, Carrie Smith, Erik O’Donnell, Del Depierro, Bob Minshall // Picture Shop, Ghost VFX
“Supergirl – Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One”
Armen V. Kevorkian, Brian Reiss, Kris Cabrera, Fabian Jimenez, Alex Schade // Encore VFX
As previously announced, special awards presented at the gala included the HPA Engineering Excellence Award to EIZO for the Prominence CG3146 31.1″ HDR monitor; Eluvio for Eluvio Content Fabric; Moxion for Immediates; and Carl ZEISS SBE for ZEISS eXtended Data; and the HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation to Global Citizen for One World: Together At Home.
The HPA Awards, which are produced by Homerun Entertainment, take place thanks to the generosity of Diamond Title Sponsor Blackmagic Design; Registration Sponsor Picture Shop; Event Sponsors Avid, Dolby, DTS, and ZEISS; and Show Sponsors The Alex Theatre, Deluxe, Jump!, Keycode Media, MTI Film, Pixelogic Media, PostPro Media, Stephen Arnold Music, Vizrt Group, and Wipster. More information about the HPA Awards and HPA can be found at http://www.hpaonline.com
About the HPA® Awards
The HPA Awards were created to foster awareness and recognize the achievements of the individuals and companies that have contributed to groundbreaking technologies and creative excellence within the professional media content industry and build involvement in the Hollywood Professional Association. The HPA is a partner of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®). Information about the HPA Awards is available at www.hpaonline.com. The HPA Awards will be presented with generous support from Foundation Members and sponsors.
About the Hollywood Professional Association
Hollywood Professional Association (HPA®) serves the professional community of businesses and individuals who provide expertise, support, tools and the infrastructure for the creation and finishing of motion pictures, television, commercials, digital media and other dynamic media content. Through their partnership with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®), the leader in the advancement of the art, science and craft of the image, sound, and metadata ecosystem, the HPA continues to extend its support of the community it represents. Information about the HPA is available at www.hpaonline.com.
About the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®)
For more than a century, the people of the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers (SMPTE, pronounced “simp-tee”) have sorted out the details of many significant advances in media and entertainment technology, from the introduction of “talkies” and color television to HD and UHD (4K, 8K) TV. Since its founding in 1916, the Society has received an Oscar® and multiple Emmy® Awards for its work in advancing moving-imagery engineering across the industry. SMPTE has developed thousands of standards, recommended practices, and engineering guidelines, more than 800 of which are currently in force today. SMPTE Time Code™ and the ubiquitous SMPTE Color Bars™ are just two examples of the Society’s notable work. As it enters its second century, the Society is shaping the next generation of standards and providing education for the industry to ensure interoperability as the industry evolves further into IT- and IP-based workflows.
SMPTE’s global membership today includes more than 7,000 members: motion-imaging executives, creatives, technologists, researchers, and students who volunteer their time and expertise to the Society’s standards development and educational initiatives. A partnership with the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) connects SMPTE and its membership with the businesses and individuals who support the creation and finishing of media content. Information on joining SMPTE is available at www.smpte.org/join.
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