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AICP today released the Shortlist for the 2019 AICP Post Awards, which will be presented on May 16 at Navy Pier in Chicago – tickets are now available. The competition, formerly the AICE Awards, honors excellence in a range of post production crafts including editing, color grading, audio mixing, sound design, visual effects, CGI, animation and design. New this year to the competition is a category honoring achievement in the post production of Vertical Video.

A full list of Shortlist categories, artists, companies and entries is below. To view all the Shortlist entries, go to the AICP Post Awards Shortlist page here.

Leading the list of artists with the most items on the Shortlist is Editor William Town of Modern Post, with five total entries. This included work in the categories of Editorial: Fashion/Beauty (for Tiffany & Co.), Editorial: Monologue/Spoken Word (for G-Star) and Editorial: Music Video (for A$AP Rocky). In addition, Town and Modern Post Editor Graham Patterson were co-nominated twice for their work in the Editorial: National Campaign category (for Levi’s and Maison Margiela).

Colorist Tom Poole, a previous winner in this competition, scored four total Shortlist entries, being nominated twice in the category of Color Grading: Lengths :90 & Above (for National Lottery and Hennessy), in the category of Color Grading: Music Video (for The Carters) and in Best of East (again for National Lottery).

Also scoring four Shortlist nominations are Audio Mixers Sam and Jake Ashwell of 750 MPH, who were nominated twice in the category of Audio Mix (for Nike and Three Mobile) and twice in Sound Design with Composed Music (again for Nike and Three Mobile).

A number of artists were represented with three items on the Shortlist, among them Editor Biff Butler of Rock Paper Scissors, Editor Graham Chisholm of Arcade Edit, Editor Chris Franklin of BIG SKY EDIT, Colorist Billy Gabor of Company 3, Colorist Mark Gethin of MPC, Editor Paul Martinez of Arcade Edit, Editor Stacy Peterson of Cut+Run and Editor Peter Wiedensmith of Joint Editorial.

On a company level, Company 3 dominated the list, with its artists racking up a total of 15 items on the Shortlist, at times being nominated more than once within the same category. In the category of Color Grading: Music Video, for example, four of the category’s Shortlist nominations are from Company 3, with work from Colorists Tom Poole, Kath Raisch, Stefan Sonnenfeld and Bryan Smaller. Company 3 also has Shortlist entries in the Color Grading categories of Lengths :30 to :60, Lengths :60 to :90 and Lengths :90 & Above, as well as Best of East and Best of Southeast.

Cut+Run’s editors scored a total of 11 Shortlist entries in 9 categories, including the Editorial categories for Automotive, Cause Marketing, Comedy, Docu-Style, Fashion / Beauty, Montage and Storytelling; in New Media: Vertical; and in Best of East. Arcade Edit’s editors placed a total of nine Shortlist entries in seven categories, including the Editorial categories for Comedy, Dialogue, Docu-Style, Montage and Music Video, as well as in Best of West.

Artists at the visual effects studio MPC were represented with eight items on the Shortlist, being nominated in all four Color Grading categories as well as CGI and Compositing & Visual Effects, while Rock Paper Scissors’ editors earned six Shortlist nominations in the Editorial categories for Automotive, Montage, Music Video, Storytelling and Monologue / Spoken Word (the latter shared with Joint Editorial).

Companies whose artists’ work resulted in five Shortlist mentions were Cutters, Exile, The Mill and the tandem of PSYOP and Sun Creative Studios. Posting four Shortlist entries for its artists’ and editors’ work were BIG SKY EDIT, Blacksmith, Electric Theatre Collective, Final Cut, Joint Editorial and 750 MPH.

On the advertising agency front, Wieden+Kennedy had 17 mentions on the Shortlist; Droga5 had nine mentions, while adam&eveDDB and BBDO each had six.

2019 AICP Post Awards Shortlist
Editorial: Montage	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Apple	Hokey Pokey	Conor O’Neill	EXILE	Apple
BBC	Sounds Like Wimbledon	Nick Armstrong	Cut+Run	BBC Creative
Google	Google Year in Search 2018	Aaron Leichter	Hecho Studios	Google Brand Studio
Gymnastics Canada	From Here We Soar	Graham Chisholm	Arcade Edit	Dot Dot Dash
Nike	Rallying Cry	Biff Butler	Rock Paper Scissors	Wieden+Kennedy
Welch's	Tough as Grapes	Tobias Suhm	Whitehouse Post	Barton F. Graf
Color Grading: Lengths :60 to :90	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Audi	Final Breath	Sofie Borup	Company 3	Venables Bell & Partners
Bacardi	Dance Floor	Stefan Sonnenfeld	Company 3	BBDO New York
Kia	Give It Everything	Mark Gethin	MPC	David&Goliath
Mercedes-Benz	Moving Forward	Sofie Borup	Company 3	Highsnobiety
Rimowa	ADWOA	Luke Morrison	Electric Theatre Collective	Anomaly Berlin
Volkswagen	Kid's Dreams	Adam Scott	The Mill	Grabarz & Partner Werbeagentur GmbH
Editorial: Regional Campaign	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Facebook	Keep It Local	Ned Borgman, Maury Loeb, Dustin Stephens	PS260	72andSunny
Under Armour	Will Finds a Way	Eddie Ringer	WAX	Droga5
Wings Financial	Wings Financial	Nick Miller	Drive Thru Editorial	Clarity Coverdale Fury
CGI	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Activision – Call of Duty Black Ops 4	No One Gives a F*ck About You	David Liu, Randall Smith	Digital Domain	72andSunny
John Lewis & Partners	The Boy and the Piano	Anthony Bloor, Kamen Markov	MPC	adam&eveDDB
PlayStation	Journey Ahead	Nathan Kane, James Mullholland, Ruben Vandebroek	The Mill	BBH New York
Porsche	Porsche Encounter	Bipolar Studio	Bipolar Studio	Bipolar Studio
Audio Mix	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Central Coast AirFest	The Inventor's Dream	Mark Camperell	Empty Sea Audio
Hennessy	Major	David Papa	Sonic Union	Droga5
March For Our Lives	The Most Vicious Cycle	Marshall Grupp	Sound Lounge	McCann New York
Nike	Nulla Puo Fermarci	Sam Ashwell, Jake Ashwell	750 MPH	Wieden+Kennedy
Three Mobile	Phones Are Good	Sam Ashwell, Jake Ashwell	750 MPH	Wieden+Kennedy
Best of Southeast	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
2018 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival	Mute (We Should Talk)	Matt Barron	Beast Editorial	Ogilvy Atlanta
Atlanta Hawks	Tomorrow Starts Today	Eddie Kesler	Beast Editorial	Chemistry
HLN	Frozen Moments 2018	Billy Gabor	Company 3	CNN Creative Marketing
HLN	Frozen Moments 2019	Billy Gabor	Company 3	CNN Creative Marketing
Walt Disney World Flower & Garden Festival	After Hours	Tim Masick	Company 3	Disney's Yellow Shoe Creative Group
Editorial: Music Video	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
A$AP Rocky	The Kids Turned Out Fine	William Town	Modern Post
Tomas Barfod	Family	Ben Suenaga	Friendshop	All Expanded
Taylor Bennett	Rock ‘N’ Roll	Nathan Rodgers	The Colonie	Naked Gallery
Expensify	Expensify This	Paul Martinez	Arcade Edit	JohnXHannes
Prince	Mary Don't You Weep	Jamie Foord	Rock Paper Scissors
Editorial: Storytelling	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Apple	Homework	Biff Butler	Rock Paper Scissors
Beats By Dre	Made Defiant: The Mixtape	Jamie Foord	Rock Paper Scissors
Huawei	Discovery	Iain Whitewright	Whitehouse Post
John Lewis	The Boy and The Piano	Sam Rice-Edwards	The Assembly Rooms	adam&eveDDB
Nike	Voice of Belief	Peter Wiedensmith	Joint Editorial	Wieden+Kennedy
P&G Gillette	Your Best Never Comes Easy	Stacy Peterson	Cut+Run	Grey New York & Townhouse Worldwide
New Media: Vertical	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
DICK’S	Teen Stories	Beau Dickson	Cut+Run	Anomaly New York
Heineken	Right Party	Ben Jones	BIG SKY EDIT
Lykke Li	deep end	Jojo King	Nomad Editing Company	Iconoclast
Porsche	Curves	Jimmy Helm, Jennifer Moody	The Colonie	Cramer-Krasselt
Best of Midwest	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Taylor Bennett	Rock 'N' Roll	Nathan Rodgers	The Colonie	Naked Gallery
Getty Images	Watermarks for Water	Nadav Kurtz	Cutters Studios	FCB
Jeep	Entertained	Michael Lippert	Cutters Studios	Highdive Advertising
LifeWTR	Bring Art Back to Schools	Kathryn Hempel	Cutters Studios	R/GA
Samsung	The Future	Udesh Chetty	The Mill	Leo Burnett
Editorial: Comedy	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Amazon	Not Everything Makes the Cut	Christjan Jordan	Union Editorial	Lucky Generals London
Bosch	Like a Bosch	Ben Campbell	Cut+Run
Bubly	Bublé	Dave Anderson	Arcade Edit	Goodby Silverstein & Partners
Kraft	Devour Food Porn	Lorenzo Bombicci	Cosmo Street	DAVID
Snickers	Ahmend	Dave Anderson	Arcade Edit	BBDO New York
Taco Bell	Retrieval	Matt Chesse	Union Editorial	Deutsch LA
Sound Design without Composed Music	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
MAXON	Influencers	Pedro Botsaris, Wilson Brown, Yuta Endo	Antfood Music	F°am
New Balance	Fuel Cell Impulse	Mert Ozcan	The Record House	Warm & Fuzzy
Sandy Hook Promise	Point of View	Morgan Johnson	Barking Owl	BBDO New York
Character Design & Animation	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Ageny
Coca-Cola	Coke is a Coke	Joe Ball, Gino Belassen, James Lee, Pierre de Menezes, Jess Nicholls, Gaspard Sumeire	Sun Creature and Psyop	Wieden+Kennedy
Great Western Railway	Five & The Missing Jewels	Kristian Antonelli (Designer), Paul Templeman, Steve Beck, Daryl Graham, Tim Sanpher, Eleonora Quario (Animators)	Electric Theatre Collective	adam&eveDDB
Penny Markt, Germany	Christmas Doesn't Need Much. Only Love	Hugo Rodriguez Rodriguez (Designer), Darren Macpherson, Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser, Alastair Hearsum (Animators)	Glassworks Amsterdam Ltd.	Serviceplan Campaign 3 / Neverest Group
Travel Oregon	Only Slightly Exaggerated	Joe Ball, Devon Manney, Andrew Park, Robin Thompson (Designers), Liane-Cho Han, Kenneth Ladekjaer (Animators)	Sun Creature and Psyop	Wieden+Kennedy
Editorial: Monologue/Spoken Word	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Chase	Don’t Call it a Comeback	Shane Reid	EXILE	Droga5
G Star	Uniform of the Free	William Town	Modern Post	HERC
Kraken Rum	A Tale Well Told	Alex Pirrone	Friendshop	THAT Agency
Nationwide	Goals	Chris Franklin	BIG SKY EDIT	Ogilvy
NBA 2K19	How Could They Have Known?	Biff Butler	Rock Paper Scissors	Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners
Nike	Dream Crazy	Lauren Dellara, Peter Wiedensmith	Rock Paper Scissors & Joint Editorial	Wieden+Kennedy
Best of East	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Coca-Cola	Coke is a Coke	Joe Ball, Gino Belassen, James Lee, Pierre de Menezes, Jess Nicholls, Gaspard Sumeire	Sun Creature and Psyop	Wieden+Kennedy
Macy's	Space Station	Daniel Morris	Blacksmith	BBDO New York
National Lottery	Amazing Starts Here	Tom Poole	Company 3	Vizeum
Nationwide	Goals	Chris Franklin	BIG SKY EDIT	Ogilvy
The New York Times	The Truth Is Worth It	Jim Helton	Final Cut	Droga5
P&G Gillette	Your Best Never Comes Easy	Stacy Peterson	Cut+Run	Grey New York & Townhouse Worldwide
Color Grading: Lengths :30 to :60	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Bottega Veneta	Intuition	Tim Masick	Company 3	Baron & Baron
Chevrolet	Tailgates	Mark Gethin	MPC	Commonwealth/McCann
Fed Ex	Memories	Paul Harrison	Freefolk	BBDO New York
Ford	Born to Roll 2.0	Billy Gabor	Company 3	Global Team Blue
Hobby Lobby	Sheep	Mark Gethin	MPC	The Richards Group
Editorial: Automotive	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Audi	Life	Doobie White	Therapy Studios	DDB
Ford	Big Dog	James Boger	Big Block	Global Team Blue
Ford	The Future Is Built	Mikkel EG Nielsen	Rock Paper Scissors	Wieden+Kennedy
Hyundai	Mirrors	Steve Gandolfi	Cut+Run	Innocean Worldwide
Jeep	Entertained	Michael Lippert	Cutters Studios	Highdive Advertising
Ram	School Talk	Jay Nelson	Cut+Run	GSD&M
Typography Design & Animation	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
The New York Times	The Truth Is Worth It: Perseverance	Eli Hochberg (Designer), Phil Brooks (Animator/Graphics)	Droga5, Significant Others	Droga5
Promax BDA Conference 2018	Our Conference	Damien Bastelica, Lauren Infante, Elaine Park	Sibling Rivalry Studio	Sibling Rivalry Studio
Best of Southwest	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Costa Sunglasses	Untangled	Neil Anderson	Lucky Post	McGarrah Jesse
Dickies	Lambeau	Sai Selvarajan	Lucky Post	Rabbit Foot
El Pollo Loco	Border Futbol	Luis Flores	Beast Editorial	Vitro
Jeep	More Than Just Words	Sai Selvarajan	Lucky Post	The Richards Group
Mother's Against Drunk Driving	Philip's Story	Jackson Armstrong	ATK PLN	The Marketing Arm
Editorial: Dialogue	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
EA Madden ‘19	The Greatest Play Call Ever	Paul Martinez	Arcade Edit	Johannes Leonardo
Squarespace	Make It	Chris Amos	Final Cut	Squarespace
Sound Design with Composed Music	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
The New York Times	Perseverance	Aaron Reynolds	Wave Studios	Droga5
Nike	Air	Noah Woodburn	Joint Editorial	Wieden+Kennedy
Nike	Nulla Puo Fermarci	Sam Ashwell, Jake Ashwell	750 MPH	Wieden+Kennedy
Nike	Zoom Pegasus Turbo	Elad Marish	Swell Music + Sound	Dirty Robber
Three Mobile	Phones Are Good	Sam Ashwell, Jake Ashwell	750 MPH	Wieden+Kennedy
Color Grading: Lengths :90 & Above	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Derby	Still/Life	James Tillett	MPC
Hennessy	Major	Tom Poole	Company 3	Droga5
John Lewis & Partners	The Boy and the Piano	Jean-Clément Soret	MPC	adam&eveDDB
Levi's	Use Your Vote	Jason Wallis	Electric Theatre Collective	FCB West
National Lottery	Amazing Starts Here	Tom Poole	Company 3	Vizeum
Editorial: Docu-Style	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
American Greetings	A True Test of Strength	Sloane Klevin	Union Editorial	MullenLowe Boston
Apple	Real Stories	Shane Reid	EXILE	Apple
LifeWTR	Bring Art Back to Schools	Kathryn Hempel	Cutters Studios	R/GA
Lowland Kids Trailer	Growing Up On A Disappearing Island	Graham Chisholm	Arcade Edit
P&G Gillette	Your Best Never Comes Easy	Stacy Peterson	Cut+Run	Grey New York and Townhouse Worldwide
Universal	Grow Bolder: Charlotte	Lucas Eskin	Cut+Run	David&Goliath
Graphic Design & Animation	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Coca-Cola	Coke is a Coke	Joe Ball, Gino Belassen, James Lee, Pierre de Menezes, Jess Nicholls, Gaspard Sumeire	Sun Creature and Psyop	Wieden+Kennedy
Mother's Against Drunk Driving	Philip's Story	Jackson Armstrong	ATK PLN	The Marketing Arm
Promax BDA Conference 2018	Our Conference	Damien Bastelica, Lauren Infante, Elaine Park	Sibling Rivalry Studio	Sibling Rivalry Studio
Travel Oregon	Only Slightly Exaggerated	Joe Ball, Devon Manney, Andrew Park, Robin Thompson (Designers); Liane-Cho Han, Kenneth Ladekjaer (Animators)	Sun Creature and Psyop	Wieden+Kennedy
Editorial: Cause Marketing	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Ad Council	Honest Yearbook	Blake Bogosian	Beast Editorial
National Geographic	Nujeen	Ben McCambridge	Cut+Run	72andSunny
Ohio Opioid Education Alliance	People in Denial	Chris Franklin	BIG SKY EDIT	Ogilvy
Pride London	Pride Matters	Edward Cooper	The Assembly Rooms	Pride London
Roc Nation	NYTimes: Meek Mill: Prisoners Need A New Set Of Rights	Jeff Bernier	Vayner Media	Vayner Media
Best of West	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Apple	Hokey Pokey	Conor O’Neill	EXILE	Apple
Apple	Welcome Home	Jeff Buchanan	Final Cut	TBWAMedia Arts Lab
EA Madden ‘19	The Greatest Play Call Ever	Paul Martinez	Arcade Edit	Johannes Leonardo
Fox Sports	Thursday Night Football	Haines Hall, Paul Sabater	Spot Welders	Wieden+Kennedy
Gymnastics Canada	From Here We Soar	Graham Chisholm	Arcade Edit	Dot Dot Dash
Nike	Voice of Belief	Peter Wiedensmith	Joint Editorial	Wieden+Kennedy
Color Grading: Music Video	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Anderson .Paak	Tints	Bryan Smaller	Company 3	Boy in the Castle
The Carters	Apes**t	Tom Poole	Company 3	Iconoclast
Childish Gambino	This is America	Ricky Gausis	MPC
Lykke Li	Hard Rain	Kath Raisch	Company 3	Iconoclast
Janelle Monáe	I Like That	Derek Hansen	The Mill
Travis Scott	Sicko Mode	Stefan Sonnenfeld	Company 3	Freejoy Inc.
Editorial: National Campaign	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Fox Sports	Thursday Night Football	Haines Hall, Paul Sabater	Spot Welders	Wieden+Kennedy
Google	Google Chromebook	Jeff Ferruzzo	Arcade Edit	Google Creative Lab
Levi's	United by the Beat	Graham Patterson, William Town	Modern Post
Maison Margiela	My Mutiny	Graham Patterson, William Town	Modern Post	Baron & Baron
The New York Times	The Truth Is Worth It	Jim Helton	Final Cut	Droga5
Compositing & Visual Effects	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
Budweiser	Light Up the FIFA World Cup	Iwan Zwarts	Blacksmith	Anomaly
John Lewis & Partners	The Boy and the Piano	Kamen Markov	MPC	adam&eveDDB
Macy's	Space Station	Daniel Morris	Blacksmith	BBDO New York
March for Our Lives	The Most Vicious Cycle	Kyle Cody, Venuprasath D, Christian Nielsen	The Mill	McCann New York
PlayStation	Play Fearlessly	Iwan Zwarts	Blacksmith	BBH New York
Vince Staples	FUN!	Tommy Smith	Electric Theatre Collective
Editorial: Fashion/Beauty	Title	Editor/Artist	Company	Advertising Agency
adidas Originals	Never Finished	Robert Lopuski	EXILE	Johannes Leonardo
COVERGIRL	Focus	Edward Line	Cartel	Droga5
H&M	Take the Lead	James Rose	Cut+Run	adam&eveDDB
New Era	We Who Reign	Nick Gartner	Hecho Studios	72andSunny
Tiffany and Co.	Spring '18 Believe In Dreams: Anthem	William Town	Modern Post	Laird and Partners

 

AICP represents, exclusively, the interests of independent companies that specialize in the production and post production of commercials in various media—film, video, digital—for advertisers and agencies. The association, with national offices in New York and Los Angeles as well as regional chapters across the country, serves as a strong collective voice for this $5 billion-plus industry. Founded in 1972, AICP assists its members by: disseminating information; representing production and post production companies within the advertising community in business circles, in labor negotiations and dealing with employment issues; and before governmental officials; developing industry standards and tools; providing professional development; and marketing American production and post production via events and awards shows.