The winners of the 2008 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards are:
Outstanding Color Grading – Feature Film in a DI Process Iron Man Steven J. Scott // EFilm
Outstanding Color Grading – Television Pushing Daisies – “The Fun in Funerals” Joe Hathaway // LaserPacific Media Corporation
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial Jaguar XF Hush Alex Bickel // Outside Editorial
Outstanding Editing – Feature Film The Dark Knight Lee Smith, A.C.E.
Outstanding Editing – Television Pushing Daisies – “Pie-Lette” Stuart Bass, A.C.E
Outstanding Editing- Commercial Jaguar XF Hush Neil Gust // Outside Editorial
Outstanding Audio Post- Feature Film Wall-E Ben Burtt // Pixar Animation Studios Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Matthew Wood // Skywalker Sound
Outstanding Audio Post – Television CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – “Cockroaches” Mace Matiosian, Ruth Adelman, David Vanslyke, Bill Smith, Yuri Reese and Jivan Tahmizian // Todd-AO
Outstanding Audio Post- Commercial Audi RS6 Gymnast Tony Rapaccioli and Warren Hamilton // Wave Recording Studios and Tonic
Outstanding Compositing – Commercial Pontiac Shwayze Patrick Poulatian and Robert Sethi // Brickyard VFX
SPECIAL AWARDS:
The Charles S. Swartz Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Post Production: Elizabeth Daley, Dean, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
Lifetime Achievement Award: Ron Burdett
Engineering Excellence Award: Quantel FastSoft Panasonic
HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production DigitalFilm Tree and CBS aIM – Laser Pacific Sony Pictures Imageworks
