The HPA Awards returned to the historic Hollywood Legion Theatre this week to celebrate exceptional achievement in colour grading, sound, editing, and visual effects. The gala, which filled the Legion to capacity, also honoured industry veteran Kim Waugh with its Lifetime Achievement Award and bestowed additional honours for engineering excellence and outstanding achievement in restoration.
The winners of the 2022 HPA Awards Creative Categories are:
Outstanding Colour Grading – Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: The Batman
David Cole // FotoKem
Top Gun: Maverick
Stefan Sonnenfeld, Adam Nazarenko // Company 3
Dune
David Cole // FotoKem
Nightmare Alley
Stefan Sonnenfeld, Adam Nazarenko // Company 3
No Time to Die
Matt Wallach // Company 3
Outstanding Colour Grading – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
Steven Bodner // Picture Shop
1883 – 1883
Mitch Paulson // Company 3
Better Call Saul – Carrot and Stick
Keith Shaw // Keep Me Posted
Yellowstone – Half the Money
Bob Festa // Company 3
Billy the Kid – The Rattler
Mark Kueper // Picture Shop
Outstanding Colour Grading – Documentary/Nonfiction
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WINNER: Our Great National Parks – A World of Wonder
Dan Gill // Picture Shop
The Rescue
Stefan Sonnenfeld, Andrew Geary // Company 3
DIO: Dreamers Never Die
Frederik Bokkenheuser // Picture Shop
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
John Persichetti // Picture Shop
Billie Eilish: Happier Than Ever
Natasha Leonnet // Company 3
Outstanding Colour Grading – Commercial
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WINNER: Qantas – “I Still Call Australia Home”
Mark Gethin // TRAFIK
Zara – “Man Spring/Summer 2022”
Tim Masick // Company 3
Amazon – “Kindness, the greatest gift”
Damien Vandercruyssen // Harbor
Mango – “A Mediterranean Dream”
Joseph Bicknell // Company 3
O2 – “The Everyhome”
Fernando Lui // Marla Colour Grading
Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: Tick, Tick… Boom!
Myron Kerstein, ACE, Andy Weisblum, ACE
Belfast
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, ACE
No Time to Die
Tom Cross, ACE, Elliot Graham, ACE
Top Gun: Maverick
Eddie Hamilton, ACE
Encanto
Jeremy Milton, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Documentary/Nonfiction – Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: Summer of Soul
Joshua L. Pearson
Navalny
Langdon Page, Maya Daisy Hawke
The Janes
Kristen Huntley
Flee
Janus Billeskov Jansen
Lucy And Desi
Robert A. Martinez
How to Survive a Pandemic
Tyler H. Walk, Adam Evans
Outstanding Editing – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature (30 Minutes and Under)
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WINNER: Barry – starting now
Ali Greer
Fast Foodies – Nikki Glaser
Jason Le, Nathan Belt
Before Dawn, Kabul Time
Shannon Albrink
Hacks – The One, The Only
John Daigle
Barry – 710N
Franky Guttman
Outstanding Editing – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature (Over 30 Minutes) – TIE
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WINNER: Severance – The We We Are
Geoffrey Richman, ACE
WINNER: Succession – The Disruption
Brian Kates
Black Bird – The Place I Lie”
Rob Bonz
Stranger Things – Chapter Four: Dear Billy
Dean Zimmerman, ACE, Casey Cichocki
Moon Knight – The Goldfish Problem
Cedric Nairn-Smith
Outstanding Editing: Documentary/Nonfiction – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: Dean Martin: King of Cool
Tom Donahue
Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known
Joshua L. Pearson
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Simon Bryant, Jim Clark, Will Gilbey, Jacob Proctor, Pablo Noé, Lior Linevitz-Matthews, James Collett, Bill DeRonde, Asaf Eisenberg, Tim Perniciaro
Prehistoric Planet – Coasts
Richard Ketteridge, Andy Hague
Selena + Chef – Kwame Onwuachi
James Ciccarello, Blake Maddox
Outstanding Sound – Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: Dune
Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, Ron Bartlett, Mac Ruth // Formosa Group
The Batman
William Files, Douglas Murray, Lee Gilmore, Chris Terhune // Pacific Standard Sound
Andy Nelson // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Encanto
Shannon Mills, Nia Hansen, David E. Fluhr, CAS, Gabriel Guy, CAS Paul McGrath, CAS // Walt Disney Animation Studios
Elvis
Wayne Pashley, Jamieson Shaw, David Lee // Big Bang Sound Design
Andy Nelson, Michael Keller // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
The Matrix Resurrections
Dane Davis, Stephanie L. Flack, Lars Ginzel, Matthias Lempert, Frank Kruse, Barry O’Sullivan // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Outstanding Sound – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
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WINNER: Barry – 710N
Sean Heissinger, Matthew E. Taylor, Rickley Dumm // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Elmo Ponsdomenech, Teddy Salas // Sony Pictures Entertainment
Euphoria – Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
Wylie Stateman, Anne Jimkes-Root, Austin Roth, Beso Kacharava, Bryant Fuhrmann // 247SND
The Sandman – 24/7
Aaron Glascock, Christopher S. Aud, Curt Schulkey, Albert Gasser, Walter Spencer, Mike Horton // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Candy – The Fight
Mark Binder, Elliot Hartley, Trevor Cress // IMN Creative
Baymax! – Kiko
Shannon Mills, Cameron Barker, David E. Fluhr, CAS, Paul McGrath, CAS, Kendall Demarest // Walt Disney Animation Studios
Outstanding Sound – Documentary/Nonfiction
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WINNER: The Biggest Little Farm: The Return
Sue Gamsaragan Cahill, Keith Rogers, Steve Bucino, Johanna Turner, Jane Boegel-Koch // NBCUniversal StudioPost
Endangered
Lewis Goldstein, Bennett Kerr, Jerrell Suelto, Linzy Elliott, Alfred DeGrand // Parabolic
Becoming Cousteau
Tony Volante, Daniel Timmons // Harbor
Prehistoric Planet – Freshwater
Richard Lambert, Jonny Crew, Tim Owens, Tim Mercer, Paul Ackerman // Films at 59
The Princess
Andrew Stirk, Jack Cheetham, Simon Gershon, Mike Grimes, Jonathan Smith // The Project Post Ltd
Outstanding Visual Effects – Theatrical or Non-Theatrical Feature – TIE
WINNER: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Julian Foddy, Jan Maroske, Koen Hofmeester, Sally Wilson, John Seru // Industrial Light & Magic
WINNER: Encanto
Scott Kersavage, Erin V. Ramos, David Hutchins, Christopher Hendryx // Walt Disney Animation Studios
No Time to Die
Mark Bakowski, Bruno Baron, Rob Shears, Steve Ellis, Denis Scolan // Industrial Light & Magic
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Joel Behrens, Alex Millet, Kazuki Takahashi, Juan Pablo Allgeier, Bryan Smeall // Digital Domain
The Batman
Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anthony Smith, Malcolm Humphreys, Michael James Allen // Industrial Light & Magic
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episode or Series Season
WINNER: The Book of Boba Fett – Complete Season
Richard Bluff, Abbigail Keller, Paul Kavanagh, Peter Demarest // Industrial Light & Magic
Bobo Skipper // Important Looking Pirates VFX
Foundation – Season One
Danilo Ivanisevic, Anthony Mimoz, Matthieu Bidault, Maxime Laroche, Lee Brunet // Rodeo FX, Inc.
Prehistoric Planet – Deserts
Elliot Newman, Kirstin Hall, Seng Lau, Matt Marshall, Andy Hargreaves // MPC
Stranger Things – Season Four
Julien Hery, Antoine Sitruk, François Couette, Karim El-Masry, Philip Harris-Genois // Rodeo FX, Inc.
Foundation – Season One
Adica Manis, Chris MacLean, Mike Enriquez // Apple TV+
Chris Keller, Jess Brown // DNEG
Obi-Wan Kenobi – Complete Season
Patrick Tubach, Pablo Helman, Eddie Pasquarello, David Shirk, Christopher Balog // Industrial Light & Magic
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects – Episode or Series Season
WINNER: See – Rock-a-Bye
Chris Wright, Parker Chehak, Scott Riopelle
Javier Roca // El Ranchito
Tristan Zerafa // Pixomondo
Severance – Season One
Vadim Turchin, Nicole Melius, David Piombino, David Rouxel, Sean R. Findley // The Mill
The Morning Show – My Least Favourite Year
Zsolt Poczos, Gary Romey, Jeremy Renteria, Sean Roth, Chris Stark // FuseFX
Love, Death & Robots – Night of the Mini Dead
Thomas Hullin, Josianne Côté, Tim Emeis, José Maximiano // Rodeo FX, Inc.
The Terminal List – Transience
Jon Massey, Anthony Ceccomancini, Tom Reeder // Amazon Studios
Josephine Noh // FuseFX
Lawson Deming // Barnstorm VFX
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 Colour in the Cloud by Amazon Web Services; ARRI for REVEAL colour science; LG for UltraFine Pro OLED HDR monitor; and Mo-Sys Engineering for LED Key.
The 2022 HPA Awards were made possible through the generous support of diamond title sponsor Blackmagic Design; awards category sponsors DTS and Picture Shop; cocktail reception sponsors FuseFX, Light Iron, and ZEISS; trophy sponsor LucidLink; registration sponsor Creative Solutions; dessert reception sponsors the Bubble Agency, MediaSilo, and Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services Worldwide; and event sponsors Deluxe, FotoKem, and Pixelogic; and supporting sponsors AVID, AWS, Colourist Society International, and Sohonet.
