LOS ANGELES—Honors and accolades were bestowed Thursday night during the 9th Annual HPA Awards. The Awards recognize individuals and companies for outstanding contributions made in helping to create features, television programs, commercials and entertainment enjoyed around the world. Honors were bestowed in craft categories as well as awards in three special categories; Engineering Excellence, the HPA Judges Awards for Creativity and Innovation, and two Lifetime Achievement Awards. The gala took place at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, in front of an engaged audience of industry insiders and luminaries.
The winners of the 2014 HPA Awards are:
Outstanding Color Grading, Sponsored by Dolby Laboratories
Outstanding Color Grading – Feature Film
“Gravity”
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor
Outstanding Color Grading – Television
“Reign – Pilot”
David Cole // Modern VideoFilm
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
Doosan “Heavy Industries”
Siggy Ferstl // Company 3
Outstanding Editing – Feature Film
"Captain Phillips"
Christopher Rouse, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Television
"Breaking Bad – Felina"
Skip Macdonald, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Commercial
Nissan Juke “Trigger”
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Outstanding Sound – Feature Film
“Gravity”
Glenn Freemantle // Sound 24
Skip Lievsay // Warner Bros. Sound
Christopher Benstead and Niv Adiri // Warner Bros. De Lane Lea
Outstanding Sound – Television
“Toy Story OF TERROR!”
Axel Geddes // Pixar Animation Studios
Tom Myers, Gary Summers, Michael Silvers and Dustin Cawood // Skywalker Sound
Outstanding Sound – Commercial
Honda Europe “Inner Beauty”
Anthony Moore and Tom Joyce // Factory
Outstanding Visual Effects – Feature Film
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist,
Keith Miller and Paul Story // Weta Digital
Outstanding Visual Effects – Television
“Game of Thrones – The Children”
Joe Bauer // Fire and Blood Productions
Sven Martin // Pixomondo
Jörn Grosshans // Mackevision
Thomas Schelesny // Scanline VFX
Matthew Rouleau // Rodeo FX
Outstanding Visual Effects – Commercial
GE “Childlike Imagination”
Benjamin Walsh, Dominik Bauch and Brian Burke // Method Studios
The HPA Lifetime Achievement Awards:
Alan Heim, ACE and Randy Roberts, ACE were individually honored for their outstanding careers in editing.
The 2014 HPA Engineering Excellence Awards
MACOM: 12G-SDI Chipset
Nvidia: Nvudua VCA
Wohler/Cinnafilm Joint Venture: Tachyon Wormhole
The 2014 winners of the HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production are:
American Society of Cinematographers: Color Decision List (ASC CDL)
DigitalFilm Tree: Cloud Post Workflow Initiative (ProStack)
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