
Editing, Sound, Visual Effects and Color Grading Categories Revealed
26 September 2017 (Los Angeles, CA) - The Hollywood Professional Association(HPA) has announced nominees in the creative categories for the 2017 HPA Awards. Considered the standard-bearer for excellence and innovation in an industry embracing an expanding array of groundbreaking technologies and creativity, the HPA Awards honor creative achievement and artistic excellence. Receiving a record breaking number of entrants this year, the HPA Awards creative categories recognize the outstanding work done by individuals and teams who bring compelling content to a global audience.
Launched in 2006, the HPA Awards recognize outstanding achievement in editing, sound, visual effects and color grading for work in television, commercials, and feature films. The winners of the 12th Annual HPA Awards will be announced at a gala ceremony on 16 November 2017 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA.
The 2017 HPA Award nominees are:
Outstanding Color Grading - Feature Film
The Birth of a Nation
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor - Hollywood
Ghost in the Shell
Michael Hatzer // Technicolor - Hollywood
Hidden Figures
Natasha Leonnet // EFILM
Doctor Strange
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor - Hollywood
Beauty and the Beast
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
Fences
Michael Hatzer // Technicolor - Hollywood
Outstanding Color Grading - Television
The Last Tycoon - Burying the Boy Genius
Timothy Vincent // Technicolor - Hollywood
Game of Thrones - Dragonstone
Joe Finley // Chainsaw
Genius - Einstein: Chapter 1
Pankaj Bajpai // Encore Hollywood
The Crown - Smoke and Mirrors
Asa Shoul // Molinare
The Man in the High Castle - Detonation
Roy Vasich // Technicolor
Outstanding Color Grading - Commercial
Land O' Lakes - The Farmer
Billy Gabor // Company 3
Pennzoil - JOYRIDE Tundra
Dave Hussey // Company 3
Jose Cuervo - Last Days
Tom Poole // Company 3
Nedbank - The Tale of a Note
Sofie Borup // Company 3
Squarespace - John's Journey
Tom Poole // Company 3
Outstanding Editing - Feature Film
Hidden Figures
Peter Teschner
Dunkirk
Lee Smith, ACE
The Ivory Game
Verena Sch nauer
Get Out
Gregory Plotkin
Lion
Alexandre de Franceschi
Outstanding Editing - Television
Game of Thrones - Stormborn
Tim Porter, ACE
Stranger Things - Chapter 1: The Vanishing of Will Byers
Dean Zimmerman
Game of Thrones - The Queen's Justice
Jesse Parker
Narcos - Al Fin Cayo!
Matthew V. Colonna, Trevor Baker
Westworld - The Original
Stephen Semel, ACE, Marc Jozefowicz
Game of Thrones - Dragonstone
Crispin Green
Outstanding Editing - Commercial
Nespresso - Comin' Home
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Edit
Bonafont - Choices
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Optum - Heroes
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Edit
SEAT - Moments
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Outstanding Sound - Feature Film
Fate of the Furious
Peter Brown, Mark Stoeckinger, Paul Aulicino, Steve Robinson, Bobbi Banks // Formosa Group
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Addison Teague, Dave Acord, Chris Boyes, Lora Hirschberg // Skywalker Sound
Sully
Alan Murray, Bub Asman, John Reitz, Tom Ozanich // Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services
John Wick: Chapter 2
Mark Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin, Andy Koyama, Martyn Zub, Gabe Serano // Formosa Group
Doctor Strange
Shannon Mills, Tom Johnson, Juan Peralta, Dan Lauris // Skywalker Sound
Outstanding Sound - Television
Underground - Soldier
Larry Goeb, Mark Linden, Tara Paul // Sony Pictures Post
Stranger Things - Chapter 8: The Upside Down
Craig Henigham // FOX
Joe Barnett, Adam Jenkins, Jordan Wilby, Tiffany Griffith // Technicolor - Hollywood
Game of Thrones - The Spoils of War
Tim Kimmel, MPSE, Paula Fairfield, Mathew Waters, CAS, Onnalee Blank, CAS, Bradley C. Katona, Paul Bercovitch // Formosa Group
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
Pete Horner // Skywalker Sound
Dimitri Tisseyre // Envelope Music Sound
Dennis Hamlin // Hamlin Sound
American Gods - The Bone Orchard
Bradley North, Joseph DeAngelis, Kenneth Kobett, David Werntz, Tiffany S. Griffith // Technicolor
Outstanding Sound - Commercial
Honda - Up
Anthony Moore, Neil Johnson, Jack Hallett // Factory
Sian Rogers // SIREN
Virgin Media - This Is Fibre
Anthony Moore // Factory
Kia - Hero's Journey
Nathan Dubin // Margarita Mix Santa Monica
SEAT - Moments
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Rio 2016 Paralympic Games - We're the Superhumans
Anthony Moore // Factory
Outstanding Visual Effects - Feature Film
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Gary Brozenich, Sheldon Stopsack, Patrick Ledda, Richard Clegg, Richard Little // MPC
War for the Planet of the Apes
Dan Lemmon, Anders Langlands, Luke Millar, Erik Winquist, Daniel Barrett // Weta Digital
Beauty and the Beast
Kyle McCulloch, Glen Pratt, Richard Hoover, Dale Newton, Neil Weatherley // Framestore
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Guy Williams, Kevin Andrew Smith, Charles Tait, Daniel Macarin, David Clayton // Weta Digital
Ghost in the Shell
Guillaume Rocheron, Axel Bonami, Arundi Asregadoo, Pier Lefebvre, Ruslan Borysov // MPC
Outstanding Visual Effects - Television
Black Sails - XXIX
Erik Henry
Yafei Wu, Nicklas Andersson, David Wahlberg // Important Looking Pirates
Martin Lippman // Rodeo
The Crown - Windsor
Ben Turner, Tom Debenham, Oliver Cubbage, Lionel Heath, Charlie Bennett // One of Us
Taboo - Episode One
Henry Badgett, Nic Birmingham, Simon Rowe, Alexander Kirichenko, Finlay Duncan // BlueBolt VFX
Ripper Street - Occurrence Reports
Ed Bruce, Nicholas Murphy, Denny Cahill, Piotr Swigut, Mark Pinheiro // Screen Scene
Westworld - The Bicameral Mind
Jay Worth // Deep Water FX
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