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HPA Celebrates 15th Anniversary Honoring Artistry & Innovation

20/11/2020

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

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