BURBANK, CA — The HPA Awards (www.hpaonline.com) recently returned to the historic Hollywood Legion Theater to celebrate exceptional achievement in color grading, sound, editing and visual effects. The gala also honored industry veteran Kim Waugh with its Lifetime Achievement Award, and bestowed additional honors for engineering excellence and outstanding achievement in restoration.
The following is a list of winners in the 2022 HPA Awards Creative Categories:
Outstanding Color Grading – Theatrical Feature
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David Cole // FotoKem
Outstanding Color Grading – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
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“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?”
Steven Bodner // Picture Shop
Outstanding Color Grading – Documentary/Nonfiction
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“Our Great National Parks – A World of Wonder”
Dan Gill // Picture Shop
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
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Qantas – “I Still Call Australia Home”
Mark Gethin // TRAFIK
Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature
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“Tick, Tick... Boom!”
Myron Kerstein, ACE, Andy Weisblum, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Documentary/Nonfiction – Theatrical Feature
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“Summer of Soul”
Joshua L. Pearson
Outstanding Editing – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature (30 Minutes and Under)
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“Barry – starting now”
Ali Greer
Outstanding Editing – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature (Over 30 Minutes) - TIE
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Severance – "The We We Are”
Geoffrey Richman, ACE
Succession – "The Disruption”
Brian Kates
Outstanding Editing: Documentary/Nonfiction – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
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“Dean Martin: King of Cool”
Tom Donahue
Outstanding Sound – Theatrical Feature
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“Dune”
Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, Ron Bartlett, Mac Ruth // Formosa Group
Outstanding Sound – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
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“Barry – 710N”
Sean Heissinger, Matthew E. Taylor, Rickley Dumm // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Elmo Ponsdomenech, Teddy Salas // Sony Pictures Entertainment
Outstanding Sound – Documentary/Nonfiction
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“The Biggest Little Farm: The Return”
Sue Gamsaragan Cahill, Keith Rogers, Steve Bucino, Johanna Turner, Jane Boegel-Koch // NBCUniversal StudioPost
Outstanding Visual Effects – Theatrical or Non-Theatrical Feature - TIE
“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”
Julian Foddy, Jan Maroske, Koen Hofmeester, Sally Wilson, John Seru // Industrial Light & Magic
“Encanto”
Scott Kersavage, Erin V. Ramos, David Hutchins, Christopher Hendryx // Walt Disney Animation Studios
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episode or Series Season
“The Book of Boba Fett – Complete Season”
Richard Bluff, Abbigail Keller, Paul Kavanagh, Peter Demarest // Industrial Light & Magic
Bobo Skipper // Important Looking Pirates VFX
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects – Episode or Series Season
“See – Rock-a-Bye”
Chris Wright, Parker Chehak, Scott Riopelle
Javier Roca // El Ranchito
Tristan Zerafa // Pixomondo
The HPA Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Kim Waugh (Executive Vice President of Worldwide Post Production Creative Services) by Warner Bros. Discovery President of Worldwide Studio Operations, Jeff Nagler.
Ignite Films took home the inaugural Jury Award for Outstanding Restoration for their work on Invaders from Mars.
Winners of the coveted Engineering Excellence Award, announced previously, include Color in the Cloud by Amazon Web Services; Arri for Reveal color science; LG for UltraFine Pro OLED HDR monitor; and Mo-Sys Engineering for LED Key.