
Hollywood Post Alliance Unveils Nominations for
The 10th Annual HPA Awards
Nominees Honored for Artistry in Editing, Sound, Visual Effects & Color Grading
September 21, 2015 (Los Angeles, CA) The Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) today announced the nominees for the 2015 HPA Awards. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the HPA Awards, which honor artistic excellence and creative achievements within the greater post production industry. The HPA Awards are considered the standard-bearer for excellence and innovation in the industry, which now embraces an expanding array of groundbreaking technologies, content management and media distribution.
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 10th Annual HPA Awards will be announced at a gala ceremony on November 12, 2015, at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA.
The 2015 HPA Award nominees are:
Outstanding Color Grading - Feature Film
Monsoon
Charles Boileau // Post-Moderne
The Boxtrolls
John Daro // FotoKem
Whiplash
Natasha Leonnet // Modern VideoFilm
Lady of Csejte
Keith Roush // Roush Media
Birdman
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor
Outstanding Color Grading - Television
Olive Kitteridge - Incoming Tide
Pankaj Bajpai // Encore
Boardwalk Empire - Golden Days for Boys and Girls
John Crowley // Technicolor PostWorks NY
Sense8 What's Going On?
Tony Dustin // Technicolor
Game of Thrones - Hardhome
Joe Finley // Chainsaw, Inc.
Masters of Sex - A Parliament of Owls
Matt Lear // Sony Pictures Television
Outstanding Color Grading - Commercial
Toyota - Harrier
Siggy Ferstl // Company 3
Lexus - Face Off
Dave Hussey // Company 3
Dodge - Wisdom
Beau Leon // Company 3
Lincoln - Intro
Tom Poole // Company 3
Caterpillar - Lantern Festival
Rob Sciarratta // Company 3
Outstanding Editing - Feature Film
Selma
Spencer Averick
American Sniper
Joel Cox, ACE; Gary Roach, ACE
Whiplash
Tom Cross, ACE
The Imitation Game
William Goldenberg, ACE
Interstellar
Lee Smith, ACE
Outstanding Editing - Television
Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways - Austin
Scott D. Hanson // Therapy Studios
VICE on HBO - Cold War 2.0
Rich Lowe
Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways - Nashville
Kristin McCasey // Therapy Studios
House of Cards - Chapter 32
Cindy Mollo, ACE // Netflix
Game of Thrones - Hardhome
Tim Porter // Beyond the Wall Productions, Inc.
Outstanding Editing - Commercial
Adidas - Takers
Steve Gandolfi // Cut+Run
Fiat - Alive
Kristin McCasey // Therapy Studios
Skullcandy - Push Play
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
GNP Seguros - World Cup
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Google - Young Together
Miky Wolf // Big Sky Edit
Outstanding Sound - Feature Film
Interstellar
Richard King, Gary Rizzo, Gregg Landaker, Mark Weingarten // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mark Mangini, Scott Hecker, Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
American Sniper
Alan Murray, Tom Ozanich, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Birdman
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montano, Martin Hernandez, Aaron Glascock // NBCUniversal StudioPost
Unbroken
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montano, Becky Sullivan, Andrew DeCristofaro // NBCUniversal StudioPost
Outstanding Sound - Television
Halt and Catch Fire - SETI
Sue Cahill, Keith Rogers, Scott Weber, Jane Boegel, Mark Cleary, Kevin McCullough // NBCUniversal StudioPost
Black Sails - XVIII
Benjamin Cook, Stefan Hendrix, Jeffrey Pitts, Sue Cahill, Onnalee Blank, Matthew Waters // Starz
Game of Thrones - Hardhome
Tim Kimmel, Paula Fairfield, Bradley Katona, Paul Bercovitch, Onnalee Blank, Mathew Waters // Formosa Group
Banshee - You Can't Hide from the Dead
Bradley North, Joseph DeAngelis, Ken Kobett, Tiffany Griffith, David Werntz // Technicolor
Homeland - Redux
Nello Torri, Alan Decker // NBCUniversal StudioPost
Craig Dellinger // Sony Sound Services
Outstanding Sound - Commercial
Medicontour - Bi-Flex 1.8
Phil Bolland // Factory
The Syria Campaign - In Reverse
Jon Clarke // Factory
Honda - The Other Side
Tom Joyce, Anthony Moore // Factory
Volvo - The Swell
Aaron Reynolds // Wave Studios
Prada - The Battlefield
Miky Wolf // Big Sky Edit
Outstanding Visual Effects - Feature Film
Jurassic World
Tim Alexander, Glen McIntosh, Tony Plett, Kevin Martel, Martyn Culpitt // Industrial Light & Magic
Tomorrowland
Craig Hammack, Eddie Pasquarello, Francois Lambert, Maia Kayser, Barry Williams // Industrial Light & Magic
Into the Woods
Matt Johnson, Christian Irles, Daniel Tarmy, Nicolas Chevallier, Benoit Dubuc // MPC
Birdman
Ara Khanikian, Sebastien Moreau, Sebastien Francoeur, Patrick David, Laurent Spillemaecker // Rodeo FX
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White, Matt Aitken // Weta Digital
Outstanding Visual Effects - Television
Game of Thrones - The Dance of Dragons
Joe Bauer, Steve Kullback, Derek Spears, Eric Carney, Jabbar Raisani // Fire and Blood Productions
Ripper Street - Whitechapel Terminus
Ed Bruce, Nicolas Murphy, John O'Connell, Joseph Courtis, Ronan Gantly // Screen Scene
Marvel's Agent Carter - Now Is Not The End
Sheena Duggal, Richard Bluff, Jay Mehta, Chad Taylor, Cody Gramstad // Industrial Light & Magic
Black Sails - XVIII
Erik Henry // Starz
Ken Jones // Digital Domain
Nic Spier // Shade FX
Christina Spring, Bjorn Ahlstedt // Crazy Horse Effects
The Flash - Grodd Lives
Armen V. Kevorkian, Andranik Taranyan, Stefan Bredereck, Jason Shulman, Gevork Babityan // Encore VFX
Outstanding Visual Effects - Commercial
Shell - Shapeshifter
Russell Dodgson, Rob
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