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HPA Announces 2018 Award Winners

17/11/2018

November 15, 2018 (Los Angeles) The 13th annual Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Awards took place tonight, honoring the accomplishments of industry luminaries, behind-the-scenes artists and outstanding engineering teams. The HPA Awards set the bar for creative and technical achievement, recognizing individuals and companies for outstanding contributions made in the creation of feature films, television, commercials, and entertainment content enjoyed around the world.

Awards were given to talented individuals and teams working in twelve creative craft categories, including color grading, sound, editing and visual effects for commercials, television and feature film. Victoria Alonso, EVP Production of Marvel, was honored with the HPA Charles S. Swartz Award, and special awards were presented for Engineering Excellence. The many social movements, including #metoo, of the past year that effectively harnessed the power of technology to bring positive change to our industry were also acknowledged during the show.

The winners of the 2018 HPA Awards are:

Creative Categories

Outstanding Color Grading - Feature Film

WINNER: Alpha

Maxine Gervais // Technicolor - Hollywood

Avengers: Infinity War

Steven J. Scott, Charles Bunnag // Technicolor - Hollywood

Red Sparrow

Dave Hussey // Company 3

The Shape of Water

Chris Wallace // Deluxe - Toronto

The Greatest Showman

Tim Stipan // Company 3

Outstanding Color Grading - Television

WINNER: The Crown - Paterfamilias

Asa Shoul // Molinare

Damnation - Sam Riley's Body

Paul Allia // Picture Shop

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Pilot

Steven Bodner // Light Iron

Game of Thrones - Beyond the Wall

Joe Finley // Sim

The Crossing - Pilot

Tony Smith // Picture Shop

Outstanding Color Grading - Commercial

WINNER (TIE): Volkswagen - Kids' Dreams

Adam Scott // The Mill

WINNER (TIE): Zara - Spring/Summer 2018 Main

Tim Masick // Company 3

Bottega Veneta - Spring/Summer 2018 Trailer

Tim Masick // Company 3

Tile - Lost Panda

Tom Poole // Company 3

Audi - Final Breath

Sofie Borup // Company 3

Outstanding Editing - Feature Film

Sponsored by Blackmagic Design

WINNER: A Quiet Place

Christopher Tellefsen, ACE

Coco

Steve Bloom

You Were Never Really Here

Joe Bini

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Eddie Hamilton, ACE

Believer

Demian Fenton

Outstanding Editing - Television (30 Minutes and Under)

Sponsored by Blackmagic Design

WINNER: VICE - After the Fall

Kelly Kendrick // Vice

The End of the F***ing World - Episode One

Mike Jones

Vida - Episode 6

JoAnne Yarrow

Barry - Chapter Eight: Know Your Truth

Kyle Reiter

Vice Principals -The Union of the Wizard and The Warrior

Justin Bourret

Outstanding Editing - Television (Over 30 Minutes)

Sponsored by Blackmagic Design

WINNER: The Defiant Ones - Part 2

Doug Pray, Lasse J rvi

Stranger Things - Chapter Nine: The Gate

Kevin D. Ross, ACE

Game of Thrones - The Dragon and the Wolf

Crispin Green

Westworld - The Passenger

Anna Hauger, Mako Kamitsuna, MPEG, Andrew Seklir, ACE

Counterpart - The Crossing

Dana E. Glauberman, ACE

Outstanding Sound - Feature Film

WINNER: The Shape of Water

Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, Nelson Ferreira, Nathan Robitaille // Deluxe Toronto

Ant-Man and The Wasp

Katy Wood, Addison Teague, Juan Peralta, Tom Johnson // Skywalker Sound

Avengers: Infinity War

Shannon Mills, Tom Johnson, Juan Peralta, Dan Laurie // Skywalker Sound

Blade Runner 2049

Mark Mangini, Ron Bartlett, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, Mac Ruth // Formosa Group

Black Panther

Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor // Skywalker Sound

Outstanding Sound - Television

WINNER: Altered Carbon - Out of The Past

Brett Hinton, Mark Allen, Owen Granich-Young, Andy King, Keith Rogers // Atomic Sound

Yellowstone - Daybreak

Alan Robert Murray, Tim LeBlanc, Dean Zupancic // Warner Bros.

Waco - Operation Showtime

Craig Mann, Kelly Oxford, Laura Wiest, Karen Vassar Triest, David Brownlow, Beau Borders // Technicolor - Hollywood

Dark - Secret

Alexander W rtz, Achim Hofmann, Jorg Elsner, Christian Bichoff // ARRI Media GmbH

Ansgar Frerich // Basis Berlin

Yellowstone - Kill the Messenger

Alan Robert Murray, Tim LeBlanc, Dean Zupancic // Warner Bros.

Outstanding Sound - Commercial

WINNER: OXFAM - The Heist No One is Talking About

Neil Johnson // Factory Studios

KIA - Fueled by Youth

Nathan Dubin // Margarita Mix

SANE - Let Me Talk

Anthony Moore, Jack Hallett // Factory Studios

Monster - Opportunity Roars

Tom Jucarone // Sound Lounge

ICRC - Hope

Anthony Moore // Factory Studios

Outstanding Visual Effects - Feature Film

WINNER: Avengers: Infinity War

Matt Aitken, Charles Tait, Paul Story, Sidney Kombo-Kintombo, Marvyn Young // Weta Digital

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

R. Christopher White, Daniel Macarin, Phillip Leonhardt, Paul Ramsden, Jeremy Fort // Weta Digital

Blade Runner 2049

Richard Clegg, Axel Akesson, Wesley Chandler, Stefano Carta, Ian Cooke-Grimes // MPC

Rampage

Erik Winquist, Benjamin Pickering, Stephen Unterfranz, Thrain Shadbolt, David Clayton // Weta Digital

Thor: Ragnarok

Kyle McCulloch, Alexis Wajsbrot, Ben Loch, Harry Bardak // Framestore

Outstanding Visual Effects - Television (Under 13 Episodes)

WINNER: Game of Thrones - Beyond The Wall

Joe Bauer, Steve Kullback, Ted Rae // HBO

Eric Carney // The Third Floor

David Ramos // El Ranchito

Altered Carbon - Out of The Past

Everett Burrell, Tony Meagher, Steve Moncur, Christine Lemon, Paul Jones // DNEG

Outlander - Eye of The Storm

Richard Briscoe // Outlander Production

Daniel Norlund, Filip Orrby // Goodbye Kansas

Aladino Debert, Greg Teegarden // Digital Domain

Black Mirror - Metalhead

Russell McLean // House of Tomorrow

Michael Bell, Pete Levy, Steven Godfrey, Sta
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