The Hollywood Post Alliance has announced winners of the 9th Annual HPA Awards, and in the visual effects categories they include Weta Digital for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (feature film), Game of Thrones – The Children (television) and Method Studios for GE “Childlike Imagination” (commercial).
fxguide congratulates all the nominees and winners. Check out the full list of award recipients below:
Outstanding Visual Effects – Feature Film
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” – fxguide coverage
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist,
Keith Miller and Paul Story // Weta Digital
Outstanding Visual Effects – Television
“Game of Thrones – The Children” – fxguide coverage
Joe Bauer // Fire and Blood Productions
Sven Martin // Pixomondo
Jörn Grosshans // Mackevision
Thomas Schelesny // Scanline VFX
Matthew Rouleau // Rodeo FX
Outstanding Visual Effects – Commercial
GE “Childlike Imagination” – fxguide coverage
Benjamin Walsh, Dominik Bauch and Brian Burke // Method Studios
Outstanding Color Grading – Feature Film
“Gravity”
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor
Outstanding Color Grading – Television
“Reign – Pilot”
David Cole // Modern VideoFilm
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
Doosan “Heavy Industries”
Siggy Ferstl // Company 3
Outstanding Editing – Feature Film
“Captain Phillips”
Christopher Rouse, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Television
“Breaking Bad – Felina”
Skip Macdonald, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Commercial
Nissan Juke “Trigger”
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Outstanding Sound – Feature Film
“Gravity”
Glenn Freemantle // Sound 24
Skip Lievsay // Warner Bros. Sound
Christopher Benstead and Niv Adiri // Warner Bros. De Lane Lea
Outstanding Sound – Television
“Toy Story OF TERROR!”
Axel Geddes // Pixar Animation Studios
Tom Myers, Gary Summers, Michael Silvers and Dustin Cawood // Skywalker Sound
Outstanding Sound – Commercial
Honda Europe “Inner Beauty”
Anthony Moore and Tom Joyce // Factory
The HPA Lifetime Achievement Awards:
Alan Heim, ACE and Randy Roberts, ACE were individually honored for their outstanding careers in editing.
The 2014 HPA Engineering Excellence Awards
MACOM: 12G-SDI Chipset
NVIDIA: NVIDIA VCA
Wohler/Cinnafilm Joint Venture: Tachyon Wormhole
The 2014 winners of the HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production are:
American Society of Cinematographers: Color Decision List (ASC CDL)
DigitalFilm Tree: Cloud Post Workflow Initiative (ProStack)