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The HPA Awards Committee today announced nominees for the creative categories of the 2020 HPA Awards. The HPA Awards have been the standard bearer for recognizing creative accomplishment and technical innovation, honoring outstanding achievement and artistic excellence by the individuals and teams who help bring stories to life. The winners of the creative categories will be announced in a live virtual gala on November 19th, 2020. The gala is free to attend with prior registration.
Launched in 2006, the 2020 HPA Awards will be a celebration of fifteen years of recognizing outstanding achievement in color grading, editing, sound, and visual effects for work in episodic, spots, and feature films. Despite the difficulties inherent to producing an awards show during a pandemic, the HPA Awards Committee and the HPA Board of Directors were committed to recognizing the remarkable work produced in the previous year and bringing together the community in a spirit of celebration.
The 2020 HPA Awards Creative Category nominees are:
Outstanding Color Grading - Theatrical Feature
Ad Astra
Gregory Fisher // Company 3
Gretel & Hansel
Mitch Paulson // EFILM, Company 3
Jojo Rabbit
Tim Stipan // Company 3
Joker
Jill Bogdanowicz // Company 3
Mulan
Natasha Leonnet // EFILM, Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading - Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature
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
Watchmen - Its Summer and Were Running Out of Ice
Todd Bochner // Sim International
Outstanding Color Grading - Commercial
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
Ralph Lauren - Deep Blue
Tom Poole // Company 3
Outstanding Editing - Theatrical Feature
Sponsored by Blackmagic Design
Ford v Ferrari
Michael McCusker, ACE; Andrew Buckland, ACE
Jojo Rabbit
Tom Eagles, ACE
Joker
Jeff Groth, ACE
Parasite
Jinmo Yang, ACE
The Two Popes
Fernando Stutz
Outstanding Editing - Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature (30 Minutes and Under)
Sponsored by Blackmagic Design
Insecure - Lowkey Happy
Mark Sadlek
Insecure - Lowkey Losin' It
Daysha Broadway, Lucky Justice Productions Inc.
Insecure - Lowkey Trying
Nena Erb, ACE
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
Mrs. America - Phyllis & Fred & Brenda & Marc
Emily Greene, FX Networks
Seven Worlds, One Planet: Asia
Angela Maddick, BBC Studios Natural History Unit
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
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
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
Star Trek: Picard - ET in Arcadia Ego Part 2
Matthew E. Taylor, Todd Grace, Ed Carr, Tim Farrell, Sean Heissinger, Peter Devlin // Warner Bros.
Outstanding Visual Effects - Theatrical Feature
Sponsored by ZEISS
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
The One and Only Ivan
Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Aghdami, Ben Jones, Santiago Colomo Martinez // Walt Disney Motion Picture Production
Outstanding Visual Effects - Episodic (Under 13 Episodes) or Non-theatrical Feature
Sponsored by ZEISS
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
Lost in Space - Shipwrecked
Aladino Debert, Suzanne Foster, Victor Grant, Paul Chapman // Digital Domain
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 -
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