
The HPA Awards returned to the historic Hollywood Legion Theater tonight to celebrate exceptional achievement in color grading, sound, editing, and visual effects. The gala, which filled the Legion to capacity, also honored industry veteran Kim Waugh with its Lifetime Achievement Award and bestowed additional honors for engineering excellence and outstanding achievement in restoration.
The winners of the 2022 HPA Awards Creative Categories are:
Outstanding Color Grading - Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: The Batman
David Cole // FotoKem
Top Gun: Maverick
Stefan Sonnenfeld, Adam Nazarenko // Company 3
Dune
David Cole // FotoKem
Nightmare Alley
Stefan Sonnenfeld, Adam Nazarenko // Company 3
No Time to Die
Matt Wallach // Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading - Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
Steven Bodner // Picture Shop
1883 - 1883
Mitch Paulson // Company 3
Better Call Saul - Carrot and Stick
Keith Shaw // Keep Me Posted
Yellowstone - Half the Money
Bob Festa // Company 3
Billy the Kid - The Rattler
Mark Kueper // Picture Shop
Outstanding Color Grading - Documentary/Nonfiction
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WINNER: Our Great National Parks - A World of Wonder
Dan Gill // Picture Shop
The Rescue
Stefan Sonnenfeld, Andrew Geary // Company 3
DIO: Dreamers Never Die
Frederik Bokkenheuser // Picture Shop
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
John Persichetti // Picture Shop
Billie Eilish: Happier Than Ever
Natasha Leonnet // Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading - Commercial
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WINNER: Qantas - I Still Call Australia Home
Mark Gethin // TRAFIK
Zara - Man Spring/Summer 2022
Tim Masick // Company 3
Amazon - Kindness, the greatest gift
Damien Vandercruyssen // Harbor
Mango - A Mediterranean Dream
Joseph Bicknell // Company 3
O2 - The Everyhome
Fernando Lui // Marla Colour Grading
Outstanding Editing - Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: Tick, Tick Boom!
Myron Kerstein, ACE, Andy Weisblum, ACE
Belfast
na N Dhongha le, ACE
No Time to Die
Tom Cross, ACE, Elliot Graham, ACE
Top Gun: Maverick
Eddie Hamilton, ACE
Encanto
Jeremy Milton, ACE
Outstanding Editing - Documentary/Nonfiction - Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: Summer of Soul
Joshua L. Pearson
Navalny
Langdon Page, Maya Daisy Hawke
The Janes
Kristen Huntley
Flee
Janus Billeskov Jansen
Lucy And Desi
Robert A. Martinez
How to Survive a Pandemic
Tyler H. Walk, Adam Evans
Outstanding Editing - Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature (30 Minutes and Under)
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WINNER: Barry - starting now
Ali Greer
Fast Foodies - Nikki Glaser
Jason Le, Nathan Belt
Before Dawn, Kabul Time
Shannon Albrink
Hacks - The One, The Only
John Daigle
Barry - 710N
Franky Guttman
Outstanding Editing - Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature (Over 30 Minutes) TIE
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WINNER: Severance - The We We Are
Geoffrey Richman, ACE
WINNER: Succession - The Disruption
Brian Kates
Black Bird - The Place I Lie
Rob Bonz
Stranger Things - Chapter Four: Dear Billy
Dean Zimmerman, ACE, Casey Cichocki
Moon Knight - The Goldfish Problem
Cedric Nairn-Smith
Outstanding Editing: Documentary/Nonfiction - Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: Dean Martin: King of Cool
Tom Donahue
Spring Awakening: Those You've Known
Joshua L. Pearson
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Simon Bryant, Jim Clark, Will Gilbey, Jacob Proctor, Pablo No , Lior Linevitz-Matthews, James Collett, Bill DeRonde, Asaf Eisenberg, Tim Perniciaro
Prehistoric Planet - Coasts
Richard Ketteridge, Andy Hague
Selena + Chef - Kwame Onwuachi
James Ciccarello, Blake Maddox
Outstanding Sound - Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: Dune
Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, Ron Bartlett, Mac Ruth // Formosa Group
The Batman
William Files, Douglas Murray, Lee Gilmore, Chris Terhune // Pacific Standard Sound
Andy Nelson // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Encanto
Shannon Mills, Nia Hansen, David E. Fluhr, CAS, Gabriel Guy, CAS, Paul McGrath, CAS // Walt Disney Animation Studios
Elvis
Wayne Pashley, Jamieson Shaw, David Lee // Big Bang Sound Design
Andy Nelson, Michael Keller // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
The Matrix Resurrections
Dane Davis, Stephanie L. Flack, Lars Ginzel, Matthias Lempert, Frank Kruse, Barry O'Sullivan // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Outstanding Sound - Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: Barry - 710N
Sean Heissinger, Matthew E. Taylor, Rickley Dumm // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Elmo Ponsdomenech, Teddy Salas // Sony Pictures Entertainment
Euphoria - Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
Wylie Stateman, Anne Jimkes-Root, Austin Roth, Beso Kacharava, Bryant Fuhrmann // 247SND
The Sandman - 24/7
Aaron Glascock, Christopher S. Aud, Curt Schulkey, Albert Gasser, Walter Spencer, Mike Horton // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Candy - The Fight
Mark Binder, Elliot Hartley, Trevor Cress // IMN Creative
Baymax! - Kiko
Shannon Mills, Cameron Barker, David E. Fluhr, CAS, Paul McGrath, CAS, Kendall Demarest // Walt Disney Animation Studios
Outstanding Sound - Documentary/Nonfiction
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WINNER: The Biggest Little Farm: The Return
Sue Gamsaragan Cahill, Keith Rogers, Steve Bucino, Johanna Turner, Jane Boegel-Koch // NBCUniversal StudioPost
Endangered
Lewis Goldstein, Bennett Kerr, Jerrell Suelto, Linzy Elliott, Alfred DeGrand // Parabolic
Becoming Cousteau
Tony Volante, Daniel Timmons // Harbor
Prehistoric Plan
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