The HPA Awards returned to the historic Hollywood Legion Theater on Thursday evening (11/17) to celebrate exceptional achievement in color grading, sound, editing, and visual effects. The gala, which filled the Legion to capacity, also honored industry veteran Kim Waugh with its Lifetime Achievement Award and bestowed additional honors for engineering excellence and outstanding achievement in restoration.
The winners of the 2022 HPA Awards Creative Categories are:
Outstanding Color Grading – Theatrical Feature
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“The Batman”
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) A TIE–2 Winners
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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 –A TIE–2 WINNERS
“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 (EVP 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.
James Earl Jones, Lauded Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies At 93
James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, "The Lion King" and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93.
His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home in New York's Hudson Valley region. The cause was not immediately clear.
The pioneering Jones, who was one of the first African American actors in a continuing role on a daytime drama and worked deep into his 80s, won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors and was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2022, a Broadway theater was renamed in his honor.
He cut an elegant figure late in life, with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious work habit. In 2015, he arrived at rehearsals for a Broadway run of "The Gin Game" having already memorized the play and with notebooks filled with comments from the creative team. He said he was always in service of the work.
"The need to storytell has always been with us," he told The Associated Press then. "I think it first happened around campfires when the man came home and told his family he got the bear, the bear didn't get him."
Jones created such memorable film roles as the reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in "Field of Dreams," the boxer Jack Johnson in the stage and screen hit "The Great White Hope," the writer Alex Haley in "Roots: The Next Generation" and a South African minister in "Cry, the Beloved Country."
He was also a sought-after voice actor, expressing the villainy of Darth Vader ("No, I am your father," commonly misremembered as "Luke, I am your father"), as... Read More