The 14th annual HPA Awards took place last night, honoring a range of individuals and companies exhibiting exceptional talent and brilliance in the evolving world of storytelling. Awards were given to individuals and teams working in twelve creative craft categories, recognizing outstanding contributions to color grading, sound, editing and visual effects for commercials, television and feature film.
The winners of the 2019 HPA Awards, Creative Categories are:
Outstanding Color Grading – Theatrical Feature
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Natasha Leonnet // EFilm
Outstanding Color Grading – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature
Game of Thrones – Winterfell
Joe Finley // Sim, Los Angeles
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
Hennessy XO – The Seven Worlds
Stephen Nakamura // Company 3
Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature
Sponsored by Blackmagic Design
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Fred Raskin, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature (30 Minutes and Under)
Sponsored by Blackmagic Design
Veep – Pledge
Roger Nygard, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature (Over 30 Minutes)
Sponsored by Blackmagic Design
Stranger Things – Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt
Dean Zimmerman, ACE, Katheryn Naranjo
Outstanding Sound – Theatrical Feature
Sponsored by DTS
Godzilla: King of Monsters
Tim LeBlanc, Tom Ozanich, MPSE // Warner Bros.
Erik Aadahl, MPSE, Nancy Nugent, MPSE, Jason W. Jennings // E Squared
Outstanding Sound – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature
Sponsored by DTS
The Haunting of Hill House – Two Storms
Trevor Gates, MPSE, Jason Dotts, Jonathan Wales, Paul Knox, Walter Spencer // Formosa Group
Outstanding Sound – Commercial
Sponsored by DTS
John Lewis & Partners – Bohemian Rhapsody
Mark Hills, Anthony Moore // Factory
Outstanding Visual Effects – Theatrical Feature
The Lion King
Robert Legato
Andrew R. Jones
Adam Valdez, Elliot Newman, Audrey Ferrara // MPC Film
Tom Peitzman // T&C Productions
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episodic (Under 13 Episodes) or Non-theatrical Feature
Game of Thrones – The Bells
Steve Kullback, Joe Bauer, Ted Rae
Mohsen Mousavi // Scanline
Thomas Schelesny // Image Engine
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episodic (Over 13 Episodes)
The Orville – Identity: Part II
Tommy Tran, Kevin Lingenfelser, Joseph Vincent Pike // FuseFX
Brandon Fayette, Brooke Noska // Twentieth Century Fox TV
As previously announced, special awards presented at the gala included the HPA Engineering Excellence Award to Adobe, Epic Games, Pixelworks, and Portrait Displays, Inc. and LG Electronics; the HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation to They Shall Not Grow Old; the HPA Legacy Award to Peter Caranicas; and the HPA Lifetime Achievement Award to Robert Legato, ASC.
The HPA Awards, which are produced by Homerun Entertainment, take place thanks to the generosity of Diamond Title Sponsor Blackmagic Design; Platinum Sponsor IMAX; Bronze Sponsors Avid and Fox Post Production Services; and Supporting Sponsors DTS, EFilm, FuseFX, Picture Shop, and Pixelogic; and Star Sponsor Signiant.
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