The Hollywood Post Alliance has announced the nominees for the 2012 HPA Awards. The Awards honor excellence in postproduction and bring recognition to the achievements of individuals and companies who are engaged in significant and revolutionary work in post. The nominees in the 12 craft categories were chosen from a field of talented and innovative entries in color grading, editing, sound, and compositing for motion pictures, commercials and television.
This year marked the largest number of entries in the Awards’ history. The winners of the 2012 HPA Awards will be announced and honored at a gala evening at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on November 1.
Nominees for the 2012 HPA Awards are:
Outstanding Color Grading using a DI process — Feature Film“Drive”
Tom Poole // Company 3
“Prometheus”
Stephen Nakamura // Company 3
“Once Upon a Time in Anatolia”
James Norman // 1000volt
“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”
Adam Glasman // Company 3
“The Iron Lady”
Rob Pizzey // Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading — Television“Game of Thrones — The Prince of Winterfell”
Joe Finley // Modern VideoFilm
“Magic City — Castles Made of Sand”
Tony D’Amore // Technicolor Creative Services Hollywood
“Hatfields & McCoys Miniseries – Night 2”
Lorraine Grant
“Castle — The Blue Butterfly”
Tony Smith // Encore
“Boardwalk Empire — 21”
Martin Zeichner // Technicolor-PostWorks New York
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
Captain Morgan “Secret Passage”
Tim Masick // Company 3
Audi “Ahab”
Sean Coleman // Company 3
Chrysler “Halftime in America”
Siggy Ferstl // Company 3
Ciroc “Rat Pack”
Dave Hussey // Company 3
Elizabeth Arden “Wonderstruck”
Tim Masick // Company 3
Outstanding Editing — Feature Film
“The Artist”
Michel Hazanavicius // La Classe Am–ricaine
Anne — Sophie Bion
“The Dark Knight Rises”
Lee Smith, A.C.E.
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Kirk Baxter, A.C.E. and Angus Wall, A.C.E.
“Hugo”
Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E. // Sikelia Productions
“Marvel’s The Avengers”
Jeff Ford, A.C.E. and Lisa Lassek
Outstanding Editing — Television
“Breaking Bad — Face Off”
Skip Macdonald, A.C.E.
“Downton Abbey — Series 2 Episode 7”
John Wilson, A.C.E. // Carnival Film & Television
“Boardwalk Empire — Under God’s Power She Flourishes”
Kate Sanford, A.C.E.
“Homeland — Pilot”
Jordan Goldman and David Latham
“Final Witness — Graveyard Love”
Miky Wolf // Big Sky Editorial
“Dexter — Those Kinds of Things”
Louis Cioffi, A.C.E.
Outstanding Editing — Commercial
ESPN MLB “Walk Off”
Jeff Ferruzzo // Outside Editorial
Werthers “Magic”
Kristin McCasey // Therapy Studios
MasterCard “Tango”
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Editorial
Miller64 “Living the Dream”
Jeff Ferruzzo // Outside Editorial
Telekom “Life”
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Outstanding Sound — Feature Film
“The Hunger Games”
Lon Bender, Bill Dean, Kris Fenske and Glynna Grimala // Soundelux
Mike Prestwood Smith and Michael Keller // Todd AO
“Brave”
Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, E.J. Holowicki and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle // Skywalker Sound
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
Skip Lievsay, Blake Leyh, Eliza Paley and Paul Urmson // Warner Bros. Sound
“The Adventures of Tin Tin”
Chris Ward, Brent Burge, Michael Hedges, Christopher Boyes and Andy Nelson // Park Road Post Production
“Safe House”
Conrad Kuhne, Chris Jenkins and Frank A. Monta–o // Universal Studios Sound; Per Hallberg // Soundelux
Outstanding Sound — Television
“Grimm – Pilot”
Mark Lanza, Larry Mann, Alan Decker and Nello Torri // Universal Sound
“Person of Interest — Matsya Nyaya”
Scott Weber and Keith Rogers // Disney Digital Studio Services
Tom de Gorter and Matt Sawelson // Atomic Sound
“Hatfields & McCoys Miniseries — Night 3”
Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern
“The Walking Dead — Beside the Dying Fire”
Jerry Ross, Lou Thomas, Tim Farrell, Gary Rogers, Dan Hiland, Phil Barrie and Bartek Swiatek // Warner Bros. Sound
“Homeland — Finale: Marine One”
Craig Dellinger, Jonathan Golodner and Larry Goeb // Sony Pictures Studios
Alan Decker and Nello Torri // Universal Sound
Outstanding Sound — Commercial
Lurpak “Rainbow”
Aaron Reynolds // Wave Studios
Nissan Leaf “Gas Powered Everything”
Jimmy Hite // Margarita Mix Santa Monica
Durex “Vinyl”
Jack Sedgwick // Wave Studios
Cadbury’s “Twirly Gig”
Parv Thind // Wave Studios
Irish Road Safety “Drug Driving Night Out”
Aaron Reynolds // Wave Studios
Outstanding Compositing — Feature Film
“Marvel’s The Avengers”
Matt Holland, Tim Hey, Caterina Schiffers and Steve McGillen // Weta Digital
“Battleship”
Marshall Krasser, Ben O’Brien, Sherry Hitch and Mike Conte // Industrial Light & Magic
“John Carter”
Zave Jackson, Helen Newby, Aymeric Perceval and Jamie Wood// Cinesite Ltd.
“Prometheus”
Alfred Murrle, Christoph Salzmann, Florian Schroeder and Paul Redican // Weta Digital
“Marvel’s The Avengers”
Nelson Sepulveda, Alan Travis, Peter Demarest and Chris Bayz // Industrial Light & Magic
Outstanding Compositing — Television
“The River — Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
Stephan Fleet, Mitch Gates, Charley Carlat and Sarah McGrail // Encore
“Castle — Head Case”
Mitch Gates, Rick Ramirez, Jeremy Jozwik and Brian McIntyre // Encore
“Great Expectations — Episode 3”
Henry Badgett, Stuart Bullen, Markus Kuha and Simon Rowe // BlueBolt
“NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service — Rekindled”
Bob Minshall, Mark Intravartolo, Jeremy Jozwik and Carrie Smith // Encore
Outstanding Compositing — Commercial
Sky Sports “Do the Fold”
David Lebensfeld, Grant Miller, Nick Sorenson and John Martini // Ingenuity Engine
Tooheys Extra Dry “Nocturnal Migration”
Colin Renshaw, Matt Chance and Urs Furrer // Alt.vfx
Chevy “2012 Silverado”
Benjamin Walsh, Dominik Bauch and Nicholas Kim // Method Studios
BP “Side By Side”
Glen Noren, Paul Rosckes, Marko Markewycz and Mark Walczak // Optimus
Trust Bank “Bus”
David Lebensfeld, Grant Miller, Nick Sorenson and John Martini // Ingenuity Engine
In addition to the craft categories, the HPA will also honor winners of the Engineering Excellence Award sponsored by NAB Show, present the HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production and the prestigious Charles S. Swartz Award, which recognizes broad and lasting contributions that have advanced and provided a unique purpose to the field of postproduction.
Tickets for the HPA Awards will be available beginning September 17th. They can be purchased online at www.hpaawards.net.
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More