The Hollywood Post Alliance has presented the Fifth Annual HPA Awards. The HPA Awards honor the best of the best talent working behind the scenes in motion pictures television and commercials. A number of special awards for Engineering Excellence Lifetime Achievement and Creativity and Innovation were handed out. The winners of the 2010 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards are: Outstanding Color Grading using a DI process – Feature Film “Alice in Wonderland” Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3 Outstanding Color Grading – Television “The Pacific – Episode Five” Steve Porter // Riot Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial AT&T “Legends” Siggy Ferstl // Company 3 Outstanding Editing – Feature Film “Inception” Lee Smith A.C.E. Outstanding Editing – Television “Lost – The End” Mark J. Goldman Christopher Nelson A.C.E. Stephen Semel A.C.E. and Henk van Eeghen A.C.E. // Touchstone Television Outstanding Editing – Commercial American Express Geoffrey Canada Chris Franklin // Big Sky Editorial Outstanding Sound – Feature Film “District 9” Michael Hedges Gilbert Lake Brent Burge and Chris Ward // Park Road Post Production Outstanding Sound – Television “House – Help Me” Brad North Joe DeAngelis Luis Galdames and Jackie Oster // Universal Sound Outstanding Sound – Commercial Devil “Theatrical Trailer #1” David Brolin // Universal Studios Phil Daccord // Giaronomo Outstanding Compositing – Feature Film “Avatar” Erik Winquist Robin Hollander Erich Eder and Giuseppe Tagliavini // Weta Digital Outstanding Compositing - Commercial Kia Soul “This or That” Diramid Harrison Murray Russell Dodgson Tim Osborne and Adam Rowland // Framestore SPECIAL AWARDS Lifetime Achievement Award: Ted Gagliano President of 20th Century Fox Feature Post Production Engineering Excellence Award: ALEXA Arnold + Richter Cine Technik (ARRI) Open EXR workflow Digital Vision Davio processor Cine-tal Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation nextLAB Mobile FotoKem Custom Image Processing Reliance MediaWorks GLoW Gradient Effects OUTPOST and LIGHTSTREAM Light Iron Digital Hollywood Post Alliance www.hpaonline.com
