
HPA Celebrates 15th Anniversary Honoring Artistry & Innovation
Judges Award for Creativity & Innovation Goes to Global Citizen for One World: Together at Home
November 19, 2020 (Burbank, CA) - The HPA Awards took place tonight, celebrating fifteen years honoring brilliant and transformational work by the individuals and companies raising the bar on storytelling.
Awards were given to individuals and teams working in eleven creative craft categories, recognizing outstanding contributions to color grading, sound, editing and visual effects for commercials, episodic and theatrical features.
The winners of the 2020 HPA Awards Creative Categories are:
WINNER: Joker
Jill Bogdanowicz // Company 3
Ad Astra
Gregory Fisher // Company 3
Gretel & Hansel
Mitch Paulson // EFILM, Company 3
Jojo Rabbit
Tim Stipan // Company 3
Mulan
Natasha Leonnet // EFILM, Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading - Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature
WINNER: Watchmen - It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice
Todd Bochner // Sim International
The Alienist: Angel of Darkness - Last Exit to Brooklyn
Juan Cabrera, Fran Lorite // LightBender
Altered Carbon - Payment Deferred
Bill Ferwerda // Deluxe Toronto, Company 3
Catherine the Great - Episode 1
Aidan Farrell // The Farm Group
Greyhound
Bryan Smaller // Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading - Commercial
WINNER: Ralph Lauren - Deep Blue
Tom Poole // Company 3
BMW - A Mirror Into the Future
Sofie Borup // Company 3
BMW - This is Option 2
Tom Poole // Company 3
Diet Coke - Drink What Your Mama Gave Ya
Dave Hussey // Company 3
NFL - Next 100
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
Outstanding Editing - Theatrical Feature
Sponsored by Blackmagic Design
WINNER: Parasite
Jinmo Yang, ACE
Ford v Ferrari
Michael McCusker, ACE; Andrew Buckland, ACE
Jojo Rabbit
Tom Eagles, ACE
Joker
Jeff Groth, ACE
The Two Popes
Fernando Stutz
Outstanding Editing - Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature (30 Minutes and Under)
Sponsored by Blackmagic Design
WINNER: Insecure - Lowkey Trying
Nena Erb, ACE
Insecure - Lowkey Happy
Mark Sadlek
Insecure - Lowkey Losin' It
Daysha Broadway, Lucky Justice Productions Inc.
The Righteous Gemstones - But the Righteous Will See Their Fall
Craig Hayes
What We Do in the Shadows - Resurrection
Yana Gorskaya, ACE, Dane McMaster, FX Networks
Outstanding Editing - Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature (Over 30 Minutes)
Sponsored by Blackmagic Design
WINNER: Seven Worlds, One Planet: Asia
Angela Maddick, BBC Studios Natural History Unit
Mrs. America - Phyllis & Fred & Brenda & Marc
Emily Greene, FX Networks
Seven Worlds, One Planet: Australia
Nigel Buck, BBC Studios Natural History Unit
Watchmen - It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice
David Eisenberg, HBO
Watchmen - This Extraordinary Being
Anna Hauger
Outstanding Sound - Theatrical Feature
Sponsored by DTS
WINNER: An American Pickle
Michael Babcock, Jeremy Pierson, Brandon Spencer, Jeff Sawyer, Dan Kenyon // Sony Pictures
IT: Chapter Two
Bill R. Dean, Nancy Nugent, Michael Keller, Tim LeBlanc, Erick Ocampo, Randy Torres // Warner Bros.
Joker
Alan Robert Murray, Dean Zupancic, Tom Ozanich, Jason Ruder, Tod A. Maitland // Warner Bros.
Les Mis rables
J r me Gonthier, Arnaud Lavaleix, Matthieu Autin, Marco Casanova // Srab Films
Outstanding Sound - Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature
Sponsored by DTS
WINNER: Star Trek: Picard - Et in Arcadia Ego Part 2
Matthew E. Taylor, Todd Grace, Ed Carr, Tim Farrell, Sean Heissinger, Peter Devlin // Warner Bros.
The Alienist: Angel of Darkness - Belly of the Beast
Matthew Skelding, Lindsey Alvarez, Ali Hawkins, Al Sirkett, Tom Jenkins
Away - Negative Return
Jonathan Greasley, Darren King, Shaughnessy Hare, Dan Gamache, Jeffrey Dyal // King Soundworks
Locke and Key - Welcome to Matheson
Chris Cooke, Eric Apps, J.R. Fountain, Dustin Harris // Deluxe Toronto, Company 3
Seven Worlds, One Planet: Australia
Graham Wild, Tim Owens // BBC Studios Natural History Unit
Outstanding Visual Effects - Theatrical Feature
Sponsored by ZEISS
WINNER: The One and Only Ivan
Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Aghdami, Ben Jones, Santiago Colomo Martinez // Walt Disney Motion Picture Production
The Aeronauts
Louis Morin, Annie Godin, Christian Kaestner, Ara Khanikian // Amazon Studios
IT: Chapter Two
Fabrice Vienne, Vincent Desjardins, Christopher Nix, Jonathan Fleming-Bock, Dawid Borkiewicz // Rodeo FX Inc.
Mulan
Sean Faden, Diana Giorgiutti, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury, Hubert Maston // Walt Disney Motion Picture Production
1917
Guillaume Rocheron, Sona Pak, Greg Butler, Vijay Selvam, Richard Little // MPC
Outstanding Visual Effects - Episodic (Under 13 Episodes) or Non-theatrical Feature
Sponsored by ZEISS
WINNER: Lost in Space - Shipwrecked
Aladino Debert, Suzanne Foster, Victor Grant, Paul Chapman, Frankie Stellato // Digital Domain
His Dark Materials - The Fight to the Death
Russell Dodgson, James Whitlam, Dan May, Danny Hargreaves, William Todd-Jones // Bad Wolf
Lost in Space - Ninety-Seven
Troy Davis, Niklas Jacobson, Jenn Taylor, David Anastacio, Rafael Sol rzano // Legendary TV
The Umbrella Academy - Right Back Where We Started
Everett Burrell, Jeff Campbell, Phillip Hoffman, Neishaw Ali, Carrie Richardson // Spin VFX
The Umbrella Academy - Valhalla
Everett Burrell, R. Christopher White, Libby Hazell, Aidan Martin, Paul Raeburn // Weta Digital
Outstanding Visual Effects - Episodic (Over 13 Episodes)
Sponsored by ZEISS
WINNER: 9-1-1 - Sink or Swim
Jon Massey, Tony Pirzadeh, Bryant Reif, Brandon Criswell, David Rand // Fuse FX
The Flash - Grodd Friended Me
Armen V. Kevorkian, Joshua Spivack, Shirak Agresta, Christopher Grocock, Tanya Kevorkian // Encore VFX
Grey's Anatomy
Most recent headlines
09/11/2025
Dalet today announced a transformative leap forward for media operations: Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) that unifies the Dalet ecosystem under one natura...
11/10/2025
SVG New Sponsor Spotlight: TAB M Solutions' Joe Wire, Kevin Tucker on Guidin...
11/10/2025
By Jessica Herndon
One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Fest...
11/10/2025
STAMFORD, Conn. In a move that highlights the growing importance of streaming apps on pay TV platforms, Charter Communications' Spectrum operating brand has...
11/10/2025
Netflix is expanding its video game offerings from mobile into TV by launching party games that its subscribers can play on smart TVs....
11/10/2025
STAMFORD, Conn. Charter Communications' Spectrum News has reached an deal with Comcast to expand distribution of its local news channels to Xfinity TV cust...
11/10/2025
Professional podcasts are booming. They're an effective way to establish company executives as industry leaders, humanize a large organization, drill down o...
11/10/2025
PlayBox Neo, a leading provider of media playout and channel branding solutions, will present its PlayBox Neo Suite media platform for the first time in the U.S...
11/10/2025
As a testament to its commitment to the broadcast market, FOR-A America will bring several popular and future-facing technologies to the NAB Show New York, runn...
11/10/2025
European technology developer Profuz Digital reflects on another successful IBC Show in Amsterdam from 12 15 September after showcasing the latest version of ...
11/10/2025
Cobalt Digital, the leading designer and manufacturer of award-winning signal processing products, and a founding partner in the openGear initiative, is headin...
11/10/2025
Lightware, an industry leader in signal management, is at the center of a growing range of high-profile integrations with its UBEX platform. Built to deliver un...
11/10/2025
FOR-A Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will bring its industry-leading signal processing, frame rate conversion and graphics playout software to CAPER 2025...
11/10/2025
Clear-Com is happy to announce its latest collaboration with BNE Productions, a premier production company known for delivering world-class audio for live even...
11/10/2025
Dean's List: Tommy Neblett Shares His YouTube Top Five Boston Conservatory's dean of dance reveals his favorite student dance videos.
By
Sarah Godcher...
10/10/2025
SVG New Sponsor Spotlight: TAB M Solutions' Joe Wire, Jeff Tucker on Guiding...
10/10/2025
SVG Students To Watch: Vincent Macri, Monmouth University The Jersey local runs Camera 1 on Hawks games and is expanding into technical directing By Brandon Co...
10/10/2025
Flexible budgets: Inside the DFL's new customisable camera concepts for Bund...
10/10/2025
Facing the future: TVN on its technical services for the new Bundesliga season with remote production and all the bells and whistles By Heather McLean
Monday...
10/10/2025
Evolving in-house: Developing broadcast expertise and pushing the women's ga...
10/10/2025
Growing the game: The Deutscher Fu ball-Bund on pushing production innovation fo...
10/10/2025
Proximity and authenticity: DFL kicks off the new football season with more broa...
10/10/2025
Spectrum Brings Select L.A. Lakers Games to Apple Vision Pro With New Immersive ...
10/10/2025
From left, Scoot McNairy, Andrew Durham, Nessa Dougherty, and Emilia Jones attend the premiere of Fairyland at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Photo by Jemal...
10/10/2025
By Chuck Parker, CEO of Sohonet
If you work in film and television, you can feel it: anxiety is high. Budgets are tight, schedules are tighter, and AI is a c...
10/10/2025
L3Harris' WESCAM MX-Series EO/IR sensor systems have a long history of supporting complex missions in harsh environments, as seen here on a Kaplan-20 Next G...
10/10/2025
Cobalt Digital Booth # 607 // Journalists: Click to visit Cobalt
NAB NY 2025 Audio monitors join Cobalt's platform, including its latest routers, multiview...
10/10/2025
NEW YORK - October 9, 2025 - Nielsen, the global leader in audience measurement, data and analytics, today announced the release of The Marketing ROI Blueprint:...
10/10/2025
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Cobalt Digital will feature its Aria series of audio solutions designed to simplify monitoring, embedding and routing at NAB Show New York, set ...
10/10/2025
LOS ANGELES and PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida Amazon's Prime Video has announced a new deal that will allow it to exclusively stream a revival of the PGA Tour&...
10/10/2025
ATLANTA Local Now, Allen Media Group's free streaming service, will add five channels from Fox to its growing lineup. The new offerings are Fox Sports, Fox ...
10/10/2025
WASHINGTON The National Association of Broadcasters is applauding a draft notice from the Federal Communications Commission that would potentially speed up the ...
10/10/2025
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK LA28, Team USA and NBCUniversal have announced a wide-ranging sponsorship deal with Google that will make the...
10/10/2025
MIAMI NBCUniversal Telemundo Studios said it is working with the University of Miami to launch what they are billing as an industry-first podcast incubator for ...
10/10/2025
As TV and streaming media outlets pay record prices for NFL rights, those big bets are paying off with record viewing levels....
10/10/2025
Friday 10 October 2025
To view this content, please enable our use of cookies. ...
10/10/2025
Back to All News
A Deadly Pursuit of Youth Triggers Zombie Outbreak in Indonesi...
10/10/2025
Back to All News
RHYTHM & FLOW ITALY: Third Season Confirmed With New Entry Judge Gu
Karim el Maktafi / Netflix
Entertainment
10 October 2025
GlobalItaly...
10/10/2025
Back to All News
Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary in ItalyTed Sarandos and Gabriella Buontempo, President of the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematograf...
10/10/2025
Today with David McCullagh to begin at 9am
Oliver Callan to move to 11am
Kieran Cuddihy to present Liveline
Louise Duffy moves to mid-afternoon
Katie Hannon...
10/10/2025
Tipperary, Cork and Dublin Championships to feature in first three weeks
Three weeks of top-class club hurling begins RT 's 2025 Club Championship coverage...
09/10/2025
International Island Games: Pop-up private 5G networks offer opportunity for sma...
09/10/2025
SVG Campus Shot Callers: Andrew Kurtz, Director for Broadcast Production, Monmou...
09/10/2025
SPORTEL Monaco Announces Final Conference LineupSVG, SVG Europe Lead Discussions on Fan Engagement, Generative AIBy Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director
Thurs...
09/10/2025
With Soccer's Popularity on the Rise, U.S. Open Cup Rolls Out Largest Produc...
09/10/2025
By Kristin Feeley...
09/10/2025
This World Mental Health Day, Spotify is helping listeners slow down, reconnect,...
09/10/2025
Ariana Grande fans, the moment has arrived. Whether you've loved Ariana sinc...
09/10/2025
When we introduced the inaugural Spotify x JED Impact Award earlier this year, o...
09/10/2025
From its vibrant Indian origin to playlists spanning the globe, Punjabi music is having a moment. Today in India, it stands among the most-streamed music langua...