Winners Of The HPA Awards Announced

On November 12^th, The Hollywood Post Alliance presented the Fifth Annual HPA Awards.  The HPA Awards honor the best of the best talent working behind the scenes in motion pictures, television and commercials.   A number of special awards for Engineering Excellence, Lifetime Achievement and Creativity and Innovation were handed out during the event, the special awards had been announced earlier.

Below is a complete list of the evening’s award recipients:

 

 

Outstanding Color Grading using a DI process – Feature Film

“Alice in Wonderland”

Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3

Outstanding Color Grading – Television 

“The Pacific – Episode Five”

Steve Porter // Riot

Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial  

AT&T “Legends”

Siggy Ferstl // Company 3

 

Outstanding Editing – Feature Film

“Inception”

Lee Smith, A.C.E.

 

Outstanding Editing – Television

“Lost – The End”

Mark J. Goldman, Christopher Nelson, A.C.E., Stephen Semel, A.C.E., and Henk van Eeghen, A.C.E. // Touchstone Television

Outstanding Editing – Commercial

American Express "Geoffrey Canada"

Chris Franklin // Big Sky Editorial

Outstanding Sound – Feature Film     

“District 9”

Michael Hedges, Gilbert Lake, Brent Burge and Chris Ward // Park Road Post Production

Outstanding Sound – Television         

“House – Help Me”

Brad North, Joe DeAngelis, Luis Galdames and Jackie Oster // Universal Sound

Outstanding Sound – Commercial 

Devil “Theatrical Trailer #1”

David Brolin // Universal Studios

Phil Daccord // Giaronomo

Outstanding Compositing – Feature Film

“Avatar”

Erik Winquist, Robin Hollander, Erich Eder and Giuseppe Tagliavini // Weta Digital

Outstanding Compositing - Commercial

Kia Soul “This or That”

Diramid Harrison Murray, Russell Dodgson, Tim Osborne and Adam Rowland // Framestore

SPECIAL AWARDS:

Lifetime Achievement Award:

Ted Gagliano, President of 20^th Century Fox Feature Post Production

Engineering Excellence Award:

             ALEXA

             Arnold + Richter Cine Technik (ARRI)

            Open EXR workflow

            Digital Vision

            Davio processor

            Cine-tal

Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation

nextLAB Mobile

FotoKem

Custom Image Processing

Reliance MediaWorks

GLoW

Gradient Effects

OUTPOST and LIGHTSTREAM

Light Iron Digital