‘Dune 2,’ ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Win HPA Awards
“Dune Part 2” won a pair of awards in the feature competition at the annual Hollywood Professional Association Awards on Thursday at the Television Academy in North Hollywood.
It won trophies in color grading, which was awarded to Fotokem colorist David Cole, and in sound, which was presented to the team. Also in the feature competition, Kevin Tent received an award for his editing on Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers” and a team from Weta FX won the VFX category for “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.”
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In feature animation, Disney/Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” topped the category for color grading while Netflix’s “Ultraman: Rising,” which was animated at Industrial Light & Magic, claimed the VFX trophy. The eligibility period ran from September to September.
It was a big night for FotoKem, which was honored with the Charles S. Swartz Award for industry contributions.
The Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation went to Taylor Swift | The Era Tour in recognition of its impact on both live and filmed entertainment.
Adobe, Disguise, Cuebric and Evercast received awards for engineering excellence.
The list of winners follows:
Outstanding Color Grading – Live Action Theatrical Feature
“Blink Twice” — Damien Vandercruyssen // Harbor
“The Creator” — David Cole // FotoKem
WINNER “Dune: Part Two” — David Cole // FotoKem
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” — Eric Whipp // Alter Ego
“Immaculate” — Andrea Chlebak // Harbor
Outstanding Color Grading – Animated Theatrical Feature
WINNER “Inside Out 2” — Mark Dinicola // Pixar Animation Studios
“Ultraman: Rising” — Maxine Gervais // Picture Shop
Outstanding Color Grading – Live Action Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
“Eric – Episode 1” — Toby Tomkins // Harbor
“Loki – Glorious Purpose” — Matt Watson // Marvel Studios Finishing
“Masters of the Air – Part Five” — Steven Bodner // Picture Shop
“Shōgun – Anjin” — élodie Ichter // The Mill
“Star Trek Discovery – Red Directive” — Todd Bochner // Harbor
WINNER “Time Bandits – Kevin Haddock” — Damian McDonnell // The Rebel Fleet
Outstanding Color Grading – Animated Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
“Hit-Monkey – History Lessons” — Patrick Woodard // Point.360
WINNER “Leo” — Keiran Lee // Feature Animation at Netflix
“Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie” — Alastor Pan Arnold // Keep Me Posted
“Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Night of the Mechazoids” — Ara Thomassian // Keep Me Posted
“War Is Over!” — David Cole // FotoKem
Outstanding Color Grading – Documentary
“American Symphony” — Seth Ricart // RCO
“Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes” — Nat Jencks // PostWorks
“Living with Leopards” — Dan Gill // Picture Shop
“Queens – Tiny Jungle Queens” — Blair Wallace // Evolutions Bristol
WINNER “Trilogy: New Wave” — Alastor Pan Arnold // FotoKem
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
WINNER Air Canada – “Ticket to Dream” — Wade Odlum // Alter Ego
Miu Miu – “2024 Wander and Arcadie Bag Collection” — Yibin Su // Gloss Studio
Palo Alto – “Origin” — Eric Whipp // Alter Ego
Subway – “Globally Inspired” — Wade Odlum // Alter Ego
Taco Bell – “Taco TwosDay” — Quinn Alvarez // Apache Digital
Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature
“Dune: Part Two” — Joe Walker, ACE
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” — Eliot Knapman, Margaret Sixel, ACE
WINNER “The Holdovers” — Kevin Tent, ACE
“Inside Out 2” — Maurissa Horwitz
“Twisters” — Terilyn A. Shropshire, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature (30 Minutes and Under)
“Bookie – The Super Bowl: God’s Gift To Bookies” — Tracey Wadmore-Smith, ACE
WINNER “Hacks – Better Late” — Rob Paglia
“Hacks – Bulletproof” — Jon Philpot
“Hacks – The Deborah Vance Christmas Spectacular” — Jess Brunetto, ACE
“Hacks – Just for Laughs” — Janet Weinberg, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature (Over 30 Minutes)
“Ahsoka – Part Four: Fallen Jedi” — Dana E. Glauberman, ACE
WINNER (TIE) “Ahsoka – Part Six: Far, Far Away” — James D. Wilcox, ACE
WINNER (TIE) “House of the Dragon – The Red Dragon and the Gold” — Katie Weiland, ACE
“House of the Dragon – A Son for a Son” — Frances Parker, ACE
“Tokyo Vice – Illness of the Trade” — Gary Levy
“True Detective – Night Country: Part 5” — Mags Arnold
Outstanding Editing – Documentary
“Albert Brooks: Defending My Life” — Bob Joyce
“The Commandant’s Shadow” — Claire Guillon
“Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes” — Tal Ben-David
“Porcelain War” — Brendan Bellomo, Aniela Sidorska
WINNER “Ren Faire – Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got The Will?” — Max Allman, Nicholas Nazmi
Outstanding Sound – Theatrical Feature
“Alien: Romulus”
Will Files, Lee Gilmore, Mark Paterson, Polly McKinnon, David Butler, Chris Terhune // Pacific Standard Sound
“Civil War”
Glenn Freemantle, Howard Bargroff, Adam Scrivener, Ben Barker, Gillian Dodders // Formosa Group UK
“The Creator”
Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, Malte Bieler, David Bach // E2 Sound
Tom Ozanich, Dean A. Zupancic // Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services
WINNER “Dune: Part Two”
Richard King, Dave Whitehead, Martin Kwok, Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Andrew Bock // Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services
“Música”
Christopher S. Aud, Aaron Glascock, Eliza Pollack Zebert, Mitch Osias, Rob Young, Jennifer Barak // Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services
Outstanding Sound – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature
“All The Light We Cannot See – Episode 4”
Craig Henighan, Ryan Cole, Jill Purdy, Emma Present, David Grimaldi, Mark Paterson // Pacific Standard Sound
“Fallout – The Head”
Keith Rogers, Steve Bucino, Susan Cahill, Jane Boegel-Koch, Daniel Colman, Christopher Kaller // NBCUniversal
“Interview with the Vampire – And That’s the End of It. There’s Nothing Else”
Howard Bargroff, Harry Barnes, Jamie Caple, Mark Timms, Adam Armitage, Michael Holubec // Formosa Group
WINNER “No One Will Save You”
Will Files, Chris Terhune, Ailene Roberts, James Miller, Matt “Smokey” Cloud // Pacific Standard Sound
“True Detective – Night Country: Part 6”
Howard Bargroff, Mark Timms // Formosa Group UK
Martín Hernández, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley, Michele Woods
Outstanding Sound – Documentary
“Chimp Crazy – Monkey Love” — Roberto Fernandez // Harbor
“Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes” — Tom Paul, Eric Offin, Ben Whitver, Peter Russell, Kristin Catuogno // Tom Paul Studios
“Kiss the Future” — Samir Foco, Ron Bartlett, Bryan Parker, William Harp, Taylor Jackson // Formosa Group
WINNER “Porcelain War” — Robert Mackenzie, Sam Hayward, Jared Dwyer, Andrew Miller, Alex Francis, Karina Rezhevska // RMS
“To Kill a Tiger” — Lou Solakofski, Jonathan Goldsmith, Ed Douglas, Elma Bellow, Jordan Kawai, Anita Kushwaha // Formosa Group
Outstanding Visual Effects – Live Action Feature
“Alien: Romulus” — Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Ale’ Melendez, Sebastian Ravagnani, Nicolas Caillier, Steven Denyer // Industrial Light & Magic
“The Creator” — James Clyne, Trevor Hazel, Keith Anthony-Brown, Danielle Legovich, David Dally // Industrial Light & Magic
“Deadpool & Wolverine” — Vincent Papaix, Georg Kaltenbrunner, Alexander Poei, Ziad Shureih, Russell Lum // Industrial Light & Magic
WINNER “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” — Erik Winquist, Danielle Immerman, Stephen Unterfranz, Phillip Leonhardt, Sean Noel Walker // Wētā FX
“A Quiet Place: Day One” — Malcolm Humphreys, Jordan Harding, Charmaine Chan, Michael Lum, Steve Hardy // Industrial Light & Magic
Outstanding Visual Effects – Animated Feature
“Inside Out 2” — Shaun Galinak, Toan-Vinh Le, Alyssa Lee, Enrique Vila, Jae Jun Yi // Pixar Animation Studios
WINNER “Ultraman: Rising” — Hayden Jones, Stefan Drury, Sean M. Murphy, Mathieu Vig, Kyle Winkelman // Industrial Light & Magic
Outstanding Visual Effects – Live Action Episode or Series Season
WINNER “House of the Dragon – The Red Dragon and the Gold”
Sven Martin, Fausto Tejeda, Mark Spindler, Matt Perrin, James Thompson // Pixomondo
“House of the Dragon – Season 2”
Wayne Stables, Marcus Goodwin, Jason Snyman, Mark J. Julien // Wētā FX
Martin Pelletier // Rodeo FX
“Loki – Season 2”
Steve Moncur, Christian Waite, Jeremy Sawyer, Ben Aickin, Pieter Warmington // Industrial Light & Magic
“Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Season 1”
Erik Henry, Matt Robken, Jeff White, Jose Burgos, Donny Rausch // Industrial Light & Magic
“Star Trek: Discovery – Season 5”
Aleksandra Kochoska Dekovic, Brian Tatosky, Charles Collyer, Chelsea Wynne, Shawn Ewashko // CBS Studios
Outstanding Visual Effects – Animated Episode or Series Season
“Ark: The Animated Series – Element 5”
James Baldanzi, Patrick Flanagan, David Hartman, Jon Terada // Lex + Otis Studios
Jeremy Stieglitz // Lost Continent Entertainment
WINNER “X-Men ’97 – Season 1”
Chris Graf, Dan McNaughton, Husain Untoro, Quentin Cordonnier, Andrew Stadler // Marvel Animation Studios
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects – Episode or Series Season
WINNER “All The Light We Cannot See – Season 1”
Laurens Ehrmann, Harry Bardak, Elisa Perez, Julien Martins // The Yard VFX
“Sunny – Mmmm, Hinoki”
David Lebensfeld, Tina Torunian, Francesca Orrach, Pablo Izaguirre, Edgar Pina // Ingenuity Studios
“The Sympathizer – Death Wish”
Chad Wanstreet, Daniel J. Lombardo // HBO/A24
Andrew Orloff // Zoic
Lawson Deming // Barnstorm VFX
Hallana Barbosa // Ingenuity Studios
Outstanding Achievement in Restoration
“The Day of the Locust” (1975) — Paramount
“Planet of the Apes” (1968) — 20th Century Studios
“The Searchers” (1956) — Warner Bros.
WINNER “Snow White” (1937) — Disney
“The Sugarland Express” (1974) — Universal Pictures
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