February 15, 2016 For the third consecutive year, Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki, ASC, AMC, has won the ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film. This time around, he earned the award on the basis of The Revenant. Last year, he won for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), and in 2014 he was honored for Gravity….Leon Silverman will step down from the presidency of the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) to make room for the next generation of leadership and a newly expanded board of directors. Succeeding Silverman as HPA president will be Seth Hallen, SVP of global creative services at Sony DADC New Media Solutions, who has been an HPA board member since 2007. Silverman will continue to serve on the board of directors in the newly created role of past president….Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom, also known as the directorial team big tv!, have joined production house GARTNER for representation in the U.S. spot/branded content market. The helming duo had been repped by DNA for spots and branded fare prior to joining GARTNER….
February 16, 2011 Gatorade’s Replay Season I series out of TBWAChiatDay, Los Angeles, earned Best of Show Honors at The One Club’s third annual One Show Entertainment Awards. Replay additionally earned a Gold Pencil in the Television: Specials category. Eight other Gold Pencils were also awarded during the evening’s proceedings. Gold Pencil winners included: Levi’s “Portraits of Braddock” from Wieden+Kennedy/Don’t Act Big Productions/Portland, Ore., in the Film: Documentaries category; Wrigley/Orbit’s “Dirty Shorts–The Prom Date” from Energy BBDO/DumbDumb and Electus/Chicago, which topped the Online Branded Entertainment: Single category; Mitchum’s “Hardest Working Person in America” from CAA/Brett Ratner Brands/LA in the Campaign category; and Toyota Motor Sales’ “Sienna Swagger Wagon Music Video” out of Saatchi & Saatchi LA, in the Music category (Black Iris Music)….Creative partners Scott Vitrone and Ian Reichenthal are set to join Wieden+Kennedy NY as exec creative directors. The move marks a return home for Vitrone and Reichenthal who began their first tour of duty at W+K back in 1999, collaborating as a duo for the first time and working on Nike. They now fill the void at W+K N.Y. created by the recent departure of ECDs Kevin Proudfoot and Jerome Austria…..
