
The Hollywood Post Alliance has announced its nominees for the 2014 HPA Awards, the 9th annual unveiling of these honors. The Awards honor excellence in post production while bringing recognition to the creative achievements of individuals and companies as well as creative excellence and groundbreaking technologies within the post production industry. The HPA Awards are considered the standard bearer for excellence and innovation in the industry.
The nominees in the 12 craft categories were chosen from a field of talented and innovative entries in color grading, editing, sound and visual effects for motion pictures, commercials and television. Judging was completed by panels of category peers and other experts.
The winners of the 2014 HPA Awards will be announced during a gala evening, November 6, 2014 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA.
Nominees for the 2014 HPA Awards are:
Outstanding Color Grading - Feature Film
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jill Bogdanowicz // Modern VideoFilm
Gravity
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor
12 Years a Slave
Tom Poole // Company 3
Labor Day
Natasha Leonnet // Modern VideoFilm
Monuments Men
Skip Kimball // Technicolor
Outstanding Color Grading - Television
Game of Thrones - Mockingbird
Joe Finley // Modern VideoFilm
Outlander - Sassenach
Steven Porter // MTI Film
The Blacklist - Berlin: Conclusion
Randall Starnes // ColorWorks, a Sony Pictures Digital Productions Company
Reign - Pilot
David Cole // Modern VideoFilm
Castle - Veritas
Anthony Smith // Encore
Outstanding Color Grading - Commercial
Citibank Bright Lights
Dave Hussey // Company 3
Maserati Strike
Siggy Ferstl // Company 3
Southern Comfort Shark Bite
Tim Masick // Company 3
GE Childlike Imagination
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
Doosan Heavy Industries
Siggy Ferstl // Company 3
Outstanding Editing - Feature Film
12 Years a Slave
Joe Walker, ACE
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Jeff Ford, ACE and Matthew Schmidt
Guardians of the Galaxy
Fred Raskin and Craig Wood, ACE
Captain Phillips
Christopher Rouse, ACE
American Hustle
Jay Cassidy, ACE, Crispin Struthers, ACE and Alan Baumgarten, ACE
Outstanding Editing - Television
House of Cards - Chapter 26
Cindy Mollo, ACE // Netflix Inc.
Breaking Bad - Felina
Skip Macdonald, ACE
The Sixties - The Assassination of President Kennedy
Chris A. Peterson, ACE
The Good Wife - Hitting the Fan
Scott Vickrey, ACE
House of Cards - Chapter 14
Byron Smith // Netflix Inc.
Outstanding Editing - Commercial
NY Lottery Toast
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Edit
Pepsi Rhythm of Now
Steve Gandolfi // Cut+Run
American Express Whats Your 20?
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Edit
Nissan Juke Trigger
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Santander Bank Movie Marathon
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Edit
Outstanding Sound - Feature Film
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Jeremy Peirson and Skip Lievsay // Warner Bros. Sound
Godzilla
Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
Tim Le Blanc, Gregg Landaker and Rick Kline // Warner Bros. Sound
Frozen
David Fluhr and Gabriel Guy // Walt Disney Studios Sound
Odin Benitez // Formosa Group
Noah
Craig Henighan and Jill Purdy // Subsonic Sound Service
Skip Lievsay // Warner Bros. Sound NY
Gravity
Glenn Fremantle // Sound 24
Skip Lievsay // Warner Bros. Sound
Christopher Benstead and Niv Adiri // Warner Bros. De Lane Lea
Outstanding Sound - Television
Game of Thrones - The Children
Tim Kimmel, Onnalee Blank, Mathew Waters, Paula Fairfield and Brad Katona // Todd - Soundelux
Banshee - Homecoming
Bradley North, Joe DeAngelis, Bill Freesh, David Werntz and Tiffany S. Griffith // NBC Universal StudioPost
Toy Story OF TERROR!
Axel Geddes // Pixar Animation Studios
Tom Myers, Gary Summers, Michael Silvers and Dustin Cawood // Skywalker Sound
House of Cards - Chapter 14
Jeremy Molod // Netflix Inc.
The Good Wife - Dramatics, Your Honor
Fredric Judkins, John Snider and Christian Buenaventura // Technicolor Sound
Larry Benjamin and Kevin Valentine // Smart Post Sound
Outstanding Sound - Commercial
Honda Europe Inner Beauty
Anthony Moore and Tom Joyce // Factory
Lurpak Adventure Awaits
Aaron Reynolds // Wave Studios
Nissan Juke Trigger
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Save The Children Most Shocking Second A Day Video
Jon Clarke // Factory
Three The Ride
Jack Sedgwick // Wave Studios
Outstanding Visual Effects - Feature Film
Gravity
Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Max Solomon, Paul Beilby and Stuart Penn // Framestore
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White and Eric Reynolds // Weta Digital
Maleficent
Adam Valdez, Seth Maury, Kevin Hahn, David Seager and Carey Villegas // MPC
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Russell Earl, Steve Rawlins, Johan Thorngren, Francois Lambert and
Daniel Pearson // Industrial Light & Magic
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist, Keith Miller and Paul Story // Weta Digital
Outstanding Visual Effects - Television
House of Cards - Chapter 19
James Pastorius, Andy Witkowski, Rusty Ippolito and Andrew Roberts // Savage Visual Effects
Hawaii Five-0 - Hoonani Makuakane
Armen Kevorkian, Jane Sharvina, Andranik Taranyan, Steve Graves and Dan Lopez // Encore VFX
Game of Thrones - The Children
Joe Bauer // Fire and Blood Productions
Sven Martin // Pixomondo
J rn Grosshans // Mackevision
Thomas Schelesny // Scanline VFX
Matthew Rouleau // Rodeo FX
Silicon Valley - Articles of Incorporation
Lawson Deming, Cory Jamieson, Bill Parker, Casi Blume and Seth Cobb // Barnstorm VFX
Tyrant - Pilot
Doug Ludwig, Lindsay Hoppe, Chad Schott, Gevork Babityan, Arutyan Arthur Sayan // Encore VFX
Outstanding Visual Effects - Commercial
Lipton Be More Tea
Ben Cronin, Charlie Bayliss and Russell Dodgson // Framestore
Qualcomm Snapdragon -
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