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:
Outstanding Color Grading - Theatrical Feature
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 - It's Raining Men
Tim Carras, Andie Eikenberg, Bill Parker, Nick Chamberlain, Casi Blume // Barnstorm VFX
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative S
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