Tonight at a gala celebration at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Post Alliance presented the Fifth Annual HPA Awards. The HPA Awards honor the best of the best talent working behind the scenes in motion pictures, television and commercials. A number of special awards for Engineering Excellence, Lifetime Achievement and Creativity and Innovation were handed out during the event, the special awards had been announced earlier.
The winners of the 2010 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards are:
Outstanding Color Grading using a DI process – Feature Film
“Alice in Wonderland”
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading – Television
“The Pacific – Episode Five”
Steve Porter // Riot
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
AT&T “Legends”
Siggy Ferstl // Company 3
Outstanding Editing – Feature Film
“Inception”
Lee Smith, A.C.E.
Outstanding Editing – Television
“Lost – The End”
Mark J. Goldman, Christopher Nelson, A.C.E., Stephen Semel, A.C.E., and Henk van Eeghen, A.C.E. // Touchstone Television
Outstanding Editing – Commercial
American Express “Geoffrey Canada”
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Editorial
Outstanding Sound – Feature Film
“District 9”
Michael Hedges, Gilbert Lake, Brent Burge and Chris Ward // Park Road Post Production
Outstanding Sound – Television
“House – Help Me”
Brad North, Joe DeAngelis, Luis Galdames and Jackie Oster // Universal Sound
Outstanding Sound – Commercial
Devil “Theatrical Trailer #1”
David Brolin // Universal Studios Phil Daccord // Giaronomo
Outstanding Compositing – Feature Film
“Avatar”
Erik Winquist, Robin Hollander, Erich Eder and Giuseppe Tagliavini // Weta Digital
Outstanding Compositing – Commercial
Kia Soul “This or That”
Diramid Harrison Murray, Russell Dodgson, Tim Osborne and Adam Rowland // Framestore
SPECIAL AWARDS
Lifetime Achievement Award: Ted Gagliano, President of 20th Century Fox
Feature Post Production Engineering Excellence Award: ALEXA, Arnold + Richter Cine Technik (ARRI)
Open EXR workflow
Digital Vision
Davio processor
Cine-tal
Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation
nextLAB Mobile
FotoKem
Custom Image Processing
Reliance MediaWorks
GLoW
Gradient Effects
OUTPOST and LIGHTSTREAM
Light Iron Digital
About the HPA
Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) serves the professional community of businesses and individuals who provide expertise, support, tools and the infrastructure for the creation and finishing of motion pictures, television, commercials, digital media and other dynamic media content. For further information about the Hollywood Post Alliance, contact: 213.614.0860, or visit www.hpaonline.com.
About the HPA Awards
The HPA Awards were created to foster awareness of post production, promote creative and technical excellence, recognize the achievements of post production talent, and build involvement in the Hollywood Post Alliance. The HPA Awards were presented with generous support from Premier Sponsors: Avid Technology, HP and NAB Show; Bronze Sponsors: Company 3, Encore Hollywood, Method Studios, Panasonic and Quantel; and Supporting Sponsors: AJA Video Systems, Modern VideoFilm, PRECO and SAN Solutions.
