Held in the historic Hollywood Legion Theater on Thursday night (11/18), the 2021 HPA Awards celebrated exceptional work in color grading, sound, editing, and visual effects in commercial, episodic, and feature projects.
Among the winners were colorists for the feature “Jungle Cruise,” streaming series “WandaVision,” and the Tarsem-directed Toyota Super Bowl spot “Upstream; editors on “Sound of Metal” and streaming series “Hacks”; sound artisans for “Space Jam: A New Legacy” and the TV show “Snowpiercer”; and VFX teams on “Black Widow” and streaming series “The Mandalorian.”
Returning to a sold-out gala after a virtual event in 2020, this year’s HPA Awards brought Hollywood golden era flavor to 2021. Presenters for the evening included Barry Meyer, Karol Urban, Anna Behlmer, Brooke Breton, Sabrina Plisco, and Patricia Riggen.
The winners of the 2021 HPA Awards Creative Categories are:
Outstanding Color Grading – Theatrical Feature
“Jungle Cruise”
Mitch Paulson // Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading – Episodic or Non-Theatrical Feature
“WandaVision – Previously On”
Matt Watson // Marvel Studios Finishing
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
Toyota – “Jessica Long’s Story: Upstream”
Jill Bogdanowicz // Company 3
Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature
“Sound of Metal”
Mikkel E. G. Nielsen, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Episodic or Non-Theatrical Feature (30 Minutes and Under)
“Hacks – Falling”
Susan Vaill, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Episodic or Non-Theatrical Feature (Over 30 Minutes)
“A Perfect Planet: The Sun”
Nigel Buck
Outstanding Sound – Theatrical Feature
“Space Jam: A New Legacy”
Tim LeBlanc, Michael Keller // Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services
Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, Malte Bieler // E Squared
Outstanding Sound – Episodic or Non-Theatrical Feature
“Snowpiercer – Many Miles from Snowpiercer”
Sandra Portman, Kelly Cole, Bill Mellow, James Fonnyadt, Eric Mouawad, Gregorio Gomez // Sharpe Sound Studios
Outstanding Visual Effects – Theatrical Feature
“Black Widow”
David Hodgins, Hanzhi Tang, Ryan Duhaime, James Reid, Edmond Smith III // Digital Domain
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episodic (Under 13 Episodes) or Non-theatrical Feature
“The Mandalorian – Chapter 9: The Marshal”
Joe Bauer, Richard Bluff, Abbigail Keller, Hal Hickel, Jeff Capogreco // Industrial Light & Magic
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episodic (Over 13 Episodes)
“9-1-1 – The New Abnormal”
Jon Massey, Tony Pirzadeh, Timothy Cairns, Bryant Reif, Josephine Noh // FuseFX
Special honors
The Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation, a juried honor, was awarded to the acclaimed documentary “Welcome to Chechnya” and to its director, David France, and visual effects supervisor, Ryan Laney. Industry veteran Darcy Antonellis received The HPA Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to her by former Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer.
Winners of the coveted Engineering Excellence Award, announced previously, include the Arch Platform by Arch Platform Technologies, OpenColorIO v.2 by Autodesk, Nuke by Foundry, and NearTime by Mo-Sys Engineering.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More