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Held in the historic Hollywood Legion Theater on Thursday night (11/18), the 2021 HPA Awards celebrated exceptional work in color grading, sound, editing, and visual effects in commercial, episodic, and feature projects.
Among the winners were colorists for the feature “Jungle Cruise,” streaming series “WandaVision,” and the Tarsem-directed Toyota Super Bowl spot “Upstream; editors on “Sound of Metal” and streaming series “Hacks”; sound artisans for “Space Jam: A New Legacy” and the TV show “Snowpiercer”; and VFX teams on “Black Widow” and streaming series “The Mandalorian.”
Returning to a sold-out gala after a virtual event in 2020, this year’s HPA Awards brought Hollywood golden era flavor to 2021. Presenters for the evening included Barry Meyer, Karol Urban, Anna Behlmer, Brooke Breton, Sabrina Plisco, and Patricia Riggen.
The winners of the 2021 HPA Awards Creative Categories are:
Outstanding Color Grading – Theatrical Feature
“Jungle Cruise”
Mitch Paulson // Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading – Episodic or Non-Theatrical Feature
“WandaVision – Previously On”
Matt Watson // Marvel Studios Finishing
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
Toyota – “Jessica Long’s Story: Upstream”
Jill Bogdanowicz // Company 3
Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature
“Sound of Metal”
Mikkel E. G. Nielsen, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Episodic or Non-Theatrical Feature (30 Minutes and Under)
“Hacks – Falling”
Susan Vaill, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Episodic or Non-Theatrical Feature (Over 30 Minutes)
“A Perfect Planet: The Sun”
Nigel Buck
Outstanding Sound – Theatrical Feature
“Space Jam: A New Legacy”
Tim LeBlanc, Michael Keller // Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services
Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, Malte Bieler // E Squared
Outstanding Sound – Episodic or Non-Theatrical Feature
“Snowpiercer – Many Miles from Snowpiercer”
Sandra Portman, Kelly Cole, Bill Mellow, James Fonnyadt, Eric Mouawad, Gregorio Gomez // Sharpe Sound Studios
Outstanding Visual Effects – Theatrical Feature
“Black Widow”
David Hodgins, Hanzhi Tang, Ryan Duhaime, James Reid, Edmond Smith III // Digital Domain
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episodic (Under 13 Episodes) or Non-theatrical Feature
“The Mandalorian – Chapter 9: The Marshal”
Joe Bauer, Richard Bluff, Abbigail Keller, Hal Hickel, Jeff Capogreco // Industrial Light & Magic
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episodic (Over 13 Episodes)
“9-1-1 – The New Abnormal”
Jon Massey, Tony Pirzadeh, Timothy Cairns, Bryant Reif, Josephine Noh // FuseFX
Special honors
The Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation, a juried honor, was awarded to the acclaimed documentary “Welcome to Chechnya” and to its director, David France, and visual effects supervisor, Ryan Laney. Industry veteran Darcy Antonellis received The HPA Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to her by former Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer.
Winners of the coveted Engineering Excellence Award, announced previously, include the Arch Platform by Arch Platform Technologies, OpenColorIO v.2 by Autodesk, Nuke by Foundry, and NearTime by Mo-Sys Engineering.
Client Toyota Agency Saatchi & Saatchi, Dentsu Jason Schragger, Keichi Higuchi, chief creative officers; Fabio Costa, executive creative director; Marc d’Avignon, group creative director; Yusong Zhang, Alice Blastorah, associate creative directors, art directors; Britt Wilen, associate creative director, copywriter; Rodrigo Vargas, executive producer; Stephanie Dziczek, sr. producer; Kristen Hosack, sr. music supervisor; Mark Turner, chief strategy officer. Production RadicalMedia Tarsem, director; Jim Bouvet, exec producer; Jeremy Barrett, line producer; Paul Meyers, DP. Production Services AFS Productions, Cape Town, South Africa, and Los Angeles Dale Kushner, Brin Kushner, exec producers. Editorial Final Cut Joe Guest, editor; Suzy Ramirez, exec producer; Ana Orrach, head of production/producer; Evan Bluestein, assistant editor. Telecine Company 3 Jill Bogdanowicz, colorist. VFX Framestore Alex Thomas, creative director; Katharine Buckley, VFX producer; James Razzall, president, advertising, North America; Emily Rawl, James Gemmell, coordinators; Marguerite Cargill, Carlos A. Gomez, Theo Maniatis, Flame artists; JD Yepes, 2D lead; Alexander Osvaldsson, Paul Krist, Michael Miller, Eva Flodstrom, Belinda Chen, Piotr Bednarczyk, 2D artists; Andrew Thompson, Cosku Ozdemir, Kevin Gillen, Kira Yu, Marco Marenghi, Richard Shallcross, Sean Dollins, Soren Barton, Taylor Hodgson-Scott, Todd Herman, Walter Fulbright, CG artists. Music The Elements Music, Santa Monica, Calif. Norman Kim, composer; Kristina Iwankiw, executive music producer. Sound Design LSD, Santa Monica, Calif. Michael Anastasi, sound designer; Kai Paquin, assistant sound designer; Susie Boyajan, exec producer; Kayla Phungglan, sr. producer. Audio Post Lime Studios, Santa Monica, Calif. Matt Miller, mixer; Ian Connie, assistant mix engineer; Susie Boyajan, exec producer; Kayla Phungglan, sr. producer.