AICP today released the Shortlist for the 2019 AICP Post Awards, which will be presented on May 16 at Navy Pier in Chicago – tickets are now available. The competition, formerly the AICE Awards, honors excellence in a range of post production crafts including editing, color grading, audio mixing, sound design, visual effects, CGI, animation and design. New this year to the competition is a category honoring achievement in the post production of Vertical Video.

A full list of Shortlist categories, artists, companies and entries is below. To view all the Shortlist entries, go to the AICP Post Awards Shortlist page here.

Leading the list of artists with the most items on the Shortlist is Editor William Town of Modern Post, with five total entries. This included work in the categories of Editorial: Fashion/Beauty (for Tiffany & Co.), Editorial: Monologue/Spoken Word (for G-Star) and Editorial: Music Video (for A$AP Rocky). In addition, Town and Modern Post Editor Graham Patterson were co-nominated twice for their work in the Editorial: National Campaign category (for Levi’s and Maison Margiela).

Colorist Tom Poole, a previous winner in this competition, scored four total Shortlist entries, being nominated twice in the category of Color Grading: Lengths :90 & Above (for National Lottery and Hennessy), in the category of Color Grading: Music Video (for The Carters) and in Best of East (again for National Lottery).

Also scoring four Shortlist nominations are Audio Mixers Sam and Jake Ashwell of 750 MPH, who were nominated twice in the category of Audio Mix (for Nike and Three Mobile) and twice in Sound Design with Composed Music (again for Nike and Three Mobile).

A number of artists were represented with three items on the Shortlist, among them Editor Biff Butler of Rock Paper Scissors, Editor Graham Chisholm of Arcade Edit, Editor Chris Franklin of BIG SKY EDIT, Colorist Billy Gabor of Company 3, Colorist Mark Gethin of MPC, Editor Paul Martinez of Arcade Edit, Editor Stacy Peterson of Cut+Run and Editor Peter Wiedensmith of Joint Editorial.

On a company level, Company 3 dominated the list, with its artists racking up a total of 15 items on the Shortlist, at times being nominated more than once within the same category. In the category of Color Grading: Music Video, for example, four of the category’s Shortlist nominations are from Company 3, with work from Colorists Tom Poole, Kath Raisch, Stefan Sonnenfeld and Bryan Smaller. Company 3 also has Shortlist entries in the Color Grading categories of Lengths :30 to :60, Lengths :60 to :90 and Lengths :90 & Above, as well as Best of East and Best of Southeast.

Cut+Run’s editors scored a total of 11 Shortlist entries in 9 categories, including the Editorial categories for Automotive, Cause Marketing, Comedy, Docu-Style, Fashion / Beauty, Montage and Storytelling; in New Media: Vertical; and in Best of East. Arcade Edit’s editors placed a total of nine Shortlist entries in seven categories, including the Editorial categories for Comedy, Dialogue, Docu-Style, Montage and Music Video, as well as in Best of West.

Artists at the visual effects studio MPC were represented with eight items on the Shortlist, being nominated in all four Color Grading categories as well as CGI and Compositing & Visual Effects, while Rock Paper Scissors’ editors earned six Shortlist nominations in the Editorial categories for Automotive, Montage, Music Video, Storytelling and Monologue / Spoken Word (the latter shared with Joint Editorial).

Companies whose artists’ work resulted in five Shortlist mentions were Cutters, Exile, The Mill and the tandem of PSYOP and Sun Creative Studios. Posting four Shortlist entries for its artists’ and editors’ work were BIG SKY EDIT, Blacksmith, Electric Theatre Collective, Final Cut, Joint Editorial and 750 MPH.

On the advertising agency front, Wieden+Kennedy had 17 mentions on the Shortlist; Droga5 had nine mentions, while adam&eveDDB and BBDO each had six.

2019 AICP Post Awards Shortlist  
           
Editorial: Montage Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Apple Hokey Pokey Conor O’Neill EXILE Apple  
BBC Sounds Like Wimbledon Nick Armstrong Cut+Run BBC Creative  
Google Google Year in Search 2018 Aaron Leichter Hecho Studios Google Brand Studio  
Gymnastics Canada From Here We Soar Graham Chisholm Arcade Edit Dot Dot Dash  
Nike Rallying Cry Biff Butler Rock Paper Scissors Wieden+Kennedy  
Welch's Tough as Grapes Tobias Suhm Whitehouse Post Barton F. Graf  
           
Color Grading: Lengths :60 to :90 Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Audi Final Breath Sofie Borup Company 3 Venables Bell & Partners  
Bacardi Dance Floor Stefan Sonnenfeld Company 3 BBDO New York  
Kia Give It Everything Mark Gethin MPC David&Goliath  
Mercedes-Benz Moving Forward Sofie Borup Company 3 Highsnobiety  
Rimowa ADWOA Luke Morrison Electric Theatre Collective Anomaly Berlin  
Volkswagen Kid's Dreams Adam Scott The Mill Grabarz & Partner Werbeagentur GmbH  
           
Editorial: Regional Campaign Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Facebook Keep It Local Ned Borgman, Maury Loeb, Dustin Stephens PS260 72andSunny  
Under Armour Will Finds a Way Eddie Ringer WAX Droga5  
Wings Financial Wings Financial Nick Miller Drive Thru Editorial Clarity Coverdale Fury  
           
CGI Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Activision - Call of Duty Black Ops 4 No One Gives a F*ck About You David Liu, Randall Smith Digital Domain 72andSunny  
John Lewis & Partners The Boy and the Piano Anthony Bloor, Kamen Markov MPC adam&eveDDB  
PlayStation Journey Ahead Nathan Kane, James Mullholland, Ruben Vandebroek The Mill BBH New York  
Porsche Porsche Encounter Bipolar Studio Bipolar Studio Bipolar Studio  
           
Audio Mix  Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Central Coast AirFest The Inventor's Dream Mark Camperell Empty Sea Audio    
Hennessy Major David Papa Sonic Union Droga5  
March For Our Lives The Most Vicious Cycle Marshall Grupp Sound Lounge McCann New York  
Nike Nulla Puo Fermarci Sam Ashwell, Jake Ashwell 750 MPH Wieden+Kennedy  
Three Mobile Phones Are Good Sam Ashwell, Jake Ashwell 750 MPH Wieden+Kennedy  
           
Best of Southeast Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
2018 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Mute (We Should Talk) Matt Barron Beast Editorial Ogilvy Atlanta  
Atlanta Hawks Tomorrow Starts Today Eddie Kesler Beast Editorial Chemistry  
HLN Frozen Moments 2018 Billy Gabor Company 3 CNN Creative Marketing  
HLN Frozen Moments 2019 Billy Gabor Company 3 CNN Creative Marketing  
Walt Disney World Flower & Garden Festival After Hours Tim Masick Company 3 Disney's Yellow Shoe Creative Group  
           
Editorial: Music Video Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
A$AP Rocky The Kids Turned Out Fine William Town Modern Post    
Tomas Barfod Family Ben Suenaga Friendshop All Expanded  
Taylor Bennett Rock ‘N’ Roll Nathan Rodgers The Colonie Naked Gallery  
Expensify Expensify This Paul Martinez Arcade Edit JohnXHannes  
Prince Mary Don't You Weep Jamie Foord Rock Paper Scissors    
           
Editorial: Storytelling Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Apple Homework Biff Butler Rock Paper Scissors    
Beats By Dre Made Defiant: The Mixtape Jamie Foord Rock Paper Scissors    
Huawei Discovery Iain Whitewright Whitehouse Post    
John Lewis The Boy and The Piano Sam Rice-Edwards The Assembly Rooms adam&eveDDB  
Nike Voice of Belief Peter Wiedensmith Joint Editorial Wieden+Kennedy  
P&G Gillette Your Best Never Comes Easy Stacy Peterson Cut+Run Grey New York & Townhouse Worldwide  
           
New Media: Vertical  Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
DICK’S Teen Stories Beau Dickson Cut+Run Anomaly New York  
Heineken Right Party Ben Jones BIG SKY EDIT    
Lykke Li deep end Jojo King Nomad Editing Company Iconoclast  
Porsche Curves Jimmy Helm, Jennifer Moody The Colonie Cramer-Krasselt  
           
Best of Midwest Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Taylor Bennett Rock 'N' Roll Nathan Rodgers The Colonie Naked Gallery  
Getty Images Watermarks for Water Nadav Kurtz Cutters Studios FCB  
Jeep Entertained Michael Lippert Cutters Studios Highdive Advertising  
LifeWTR Bring Art Back to Schools Kathryn Hempel Cutters Studios R/GA  
Samsung The Future Udesh Chetty The Mill Leo Burnett  
           
Editorial: Comedy Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Amazon Not Everything Makes the Cut Christjan Jordan Union Editorial Lucky Generals London  
Bosch Like a Bosch Ben Campbell Cut+Run    
Bubly Bublé Dave Anderson Arcade Edit Goodby Silverstein & Partners  
Kraft Devour Food Porn Lorenzo Bombicci Cosmo Street DAVID  
Snickers Ahmend Dave Anderson Arcade Edit BBDO New York  
Taco Bell Retrieval Matt Chesse Union Editorial Deutsch LA  
           
Sound Design without Composed Music  Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
MAXON Influencers Pedro Botsaris, Wilson Brown, Yuta Endo Antfood Music F°am  
New Balance Fuel Cell Impulse Mert Ozcan The Record House Warm & Fuzzy  
Sandy Hook Promise Point of View Morgan Johnson Barking Owl BBDO New York  
           
Character Design & Animation  Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Ageny  
Coca-Cola Coke is a Coke Joe Ball, Gino Belassen, James Lee, Pierre de Menezes, Jess Nicholls, Gaspard Sumeire Sun Creature and Psyop Wieden+Kennedy  
Great Western Railway Five & The Missing Jewels Kristian Antonelli (Designer), Paul Templeman, Steve Beck, Daryl Graham, Tim Sanpher, Eleonora Quario (Animators) Electric Theatre Collective adam&eveDDB  
Penny Markt, Germany Christmas Doesn't Need Much. Only Love Hugo Rodriguez Rodriguez (Designer), Darren Macpherson, Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser, Alastair Hearsum (Animators) Glassworks Amsterdam Ltd. Serviceplan Campaign 3 / Neverest Group  
Travel Oregon Only Slightly Exaggerated Joe Ball, Devon Manney, Andrew Park, Robin Thompson (Designers), Liane-Cho Han, Kenneth Ladekjaer (Animators) Sun Creature and Psyop Wieden+Kennedy  
           
Editorial: Monologue/Spoken Word Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Chase Don’t Call it a Comeback Shane Reid EXILE Droga5  
G Star Uniform of the Free William Town Modern Post HERC  
Kraken Rum A Tale Well Told Alex Pirrone Friendshop THAT Agency  
Nationwide Goals Chris Franklin BIG SKY EDIT Ogilvy  
NBA 2K19 How Could They Have Known? Biff Butler Rock Paper Scissors Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners  
Nike Dream Crazy Lauren Dellara, Peter Wiedensmith Rock Paper Scissors & Joint Editorial Wieden+Kennedy  
           
Best of East Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Coca-Cola Coke is a Coke Joe Ball, Gino Belassen, James Lee, Pierre de Menezes, Jess Nicholls, Gaspard Sumeire Sun Creature and Psyop Wieden+Kennedy  
Macy's Space Station Daniel Morris Blacksmith BBDO New York  
National Lottery Amazing Starts Here Tom Poole Company 3 Vizeum  
Nationwide Goals Chris Franklin BIG SKY EDIT Ogilvy  
The New York Times The Truth Is Worth It Jim Helton Final Cut Droga5  
P&G Gillette Your Best Never Comes Easy Stacy Peterson Cut+Run Grey New York & Townhouse Worldwide  
           
Color Grading: Lengths :30 to :60  Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Bottega Veneta Intuition Tim Masick Company 3 Baron & Baron  
Chevrolet Tailgates Mark Gethin MPC Commonwealth/McCann  
Fed Ex Memories Paul Harrison Freefolk BBDO New York  
Ford Born to Roll 2.0 Billy Gabor Company 3 Global Team Blue  
Hobby Lobby Sheep Mark Gethin MPC The Richards Group  
           
Editorial: Automotive Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Audi Life Doobie White Therapy Studios DDB  
Ford Big Dog James Boger Big Block Global Team Blue  
Ford The Future Is Built Mikkel EG Nielsen Rock Paper Scissors Wieden+Kennedy  
Hyundai Mirrors Steve Gandolfi Cut+Run Innocean Worldwide  
Jeep Entertained Michael Lippert Cutters Studios Highdive Advertising  
Ram School Talk Jay Nelson Cut+Run GSD&M  
           
Typography Design & Animation Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
The New York Times The Truth Is Worth It: Perseverance Eli Hochberg (Designer), Phil Brooks (Animator/Graphics) Droga5, Significant Others Droga5  
Promax BDA Conference 2018 Our Conference Damien Bastelica, Lauren Infante, Elaine Park Sibling Rivalry Studio Sibling Rivalry Studio  
           
Best of Southwest Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Costa Sunglasses Untangled Neil Anderson Lucky Post McGarrah Jesse  
Dickies Lambeau Sai Selvarajan Lucky Post Rabbit Foot  
El Pollo Loco Border Futbol Luis Flores Beast Editorial Vitro  
Jeep More Than Just Words Sai Selvarajan Lucky Post The Richards Group  
Mother's Against Drunk Driving Philip's Story Jackson Armstrong ATK PLN The Marketing Arm  
           
Editorial: Dialogue Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
EA Madden ‘19 The Greatest Play Call Ever Paul Martinez Arcade Edit Johannes Leonardo  
Squarespace Make It Chris Amos Final Cut Squarespace  
           
Sound Design with Composed Music Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
The New York Times Perseverance Aaron Reynolds Wave Studios Droga5  
Nike Air Noah Woodburn Joint Editorial Wieden+Kennedy  
Nike Nulla Puo Fermarci Sam Ashwell, Jake Ashwell 750 MPH Wieden+Kennedy  
Nike Zoom Pegasus Turbo Elad Marish Swell Music + Sound Dirty Robber  
Three Mobile Phones Are Good Sam Ashwell, Jake Ashwell 750 MPH Wieden+Kennedy  
           
Color Grading: Lengths :90 & Above Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Derby Still/Life James Tillett MPC    
Hennessy Major Tom Poole Company 3 Droga5  
John Lewis & Partners The Boy and the Piano Jean-Clément Soret MPC adam&eveDDB  
Levi's Use Your Vote Jason Wallis Electric Theatre Collective FCB West  
National Lottery Amazing Starts Here Tom Poole Company 3 Vizeum  
           
Editorial: Docu-Style Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
American Greetings A True Test of Strength Sloane Klevin Union Editorial MullenLowe Boston  
Apple Real Stories Shane Reid EXILE Apple  
LifeWTR Bring Art Back to Schools Kathryn Hempel Cutters Studios R/GA  
Lowland Kids Trailer Growing Up On A Disappearing Island Graham Chisholm Arcade Edit    
P&G Gillette Your Best Never Comes Easy Stacy Peterson Cut+Run Grey New York and Townhouse Worldwide  
Universal Grow Bolder: Charlotte Lucas Eskin Cut+Run David&Goliath  
           
Graphic Design & Animation Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Coca-Cola Coke is a Coke Joe Ball, Gino Belassen, James Lee, Pierre de Menezes, Jess Nicholls, Gaspard Sumeire Sun Creature and Psyop Wieden+Kennedy  
Mother's Against Drunk Driving Philip's Story Jackson Armstrong ATK PLN The Marketing Arm  
Promax BDA Conference 2018 Our Conference Damien Bastelica, Lauren Infante, Elaine Park Sibling Rivalry Studio Sibling Rivalry Studio  
Travel Oregon Only Slightly Exaggerated Joe Ball, Devon Manney, Andrew Park, Robin Thompson (Designers); Liane-Cho Han, Kenneth Ladekjaer (Animators) Sun Creature and Psyop Wieden+Kennedy  
           
Editorial: Cause Marketing Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Ad Council Honest Yearbook Blake Bogosian Beast Editorial    
National Geographic Nujeen Ben McCambridge Cut+Run 72andSunny  
Ohio Opioid Education Alliance People in Denial Chris Franklin BIG SKY EDIT Ogilvy  
Pride London Pride Matters Edward Cooper The Assembly Rooms Pride London  
Roc Nation NYTimes: Meek Mill: Prisoners Need A New Set Of Rights Jeff Bernier Vayner Media Vayner Media  
           
Best of West Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Apple Hokey Pokey Conor O’Neill EXILE Apple  
Apple Welcome Home Jeff Buchanan Final Cut TBWA\Media Arts Lab  
EA Madden ‘19 The Greatest Play Call Ever Paul Martinez Arcade Edit Johannes Leonardo  
Fox Sports Thursday Night Football Haines Hall, Paul Sabater Spot Welders Wieden+Kennedy  
Gymnastics Canada From Here We Soar Graham Chisholm Arcade Edit Dot Dot Dash  
Nike Voice of Belief Peter Wiedensmith Joint Editorial Wieden+Kennedy  
           
Color Grading: Music Video Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Anderson .Paak Tints Bryan Smaller Company 3 Boy in the Castle  
The Carters Apes**t Tom Poole Company 3 Iconoclast  
Childish Gambino This is America Ricky Gausis MPC    
Lykke Li Hard Rain Kath Raisch Company 3 Iconoclast  
Janelle Monáe I Like That Derek Hansen The Mill    
Travis Scott Sicko Mode Stefan Sonnenfeld Company 3 Freejoy Inc.  
           
Editorial: National Campaign Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Fox Sports Thursday Night Football Haines Hall, Paul Sabater Spot Welders Wieden+Kennedy  
Google Google Chromebook Jeff Ferruzzo Arcade Edit Google Creative Lab  
Levi's United by the Beat Graham Patterson, William Town Modern Post    
Maison Margiela My Mutiny Graham Patterson, William Town Modern Post Baron & Baron  
The New York Times The Truth Is Worth It Jim Helton Final Cut Droga5  
           
Compositing & Visual Effects Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
Budweiser Light Up the FIFA World Cup Iwan Zwarts Blacksmith Anomaly  
John Lewis & Partners The Boy and the Piano Kamen Markov MPC adam&eveDDB  
Macy's Space Station Daniel Morris Blacksmith BBDO New York  
March for Our Lives The Most Vicious Cycle Kyle Cody, Venuprasath D, Christian Nielsen The Mill McCann New York  
PlayStation Play Fearlessly Iwan Zwarts Blacksmith BBH New York  
Vince Staples FUN! Tommy Smith Electric Theatre Collective    
           
Editorial: Fashion/Beauty  Title Editor/Artist Company Advertising Agency  
adidas Originals Never Finished Robert Lopuski EXILE Johannes Leonardo  
COVERGIRL Focus Edward Line Cartel Droga5  
H&M Take the Lead James Rose Cut+Run adam&eveDDB  
New Era We Who Reign Nick Gartner Hecho Studios 72andSunny  
Tiffany and Co. Spring '18 Believe In Dreams: Anthem William Town Modern Post Laird and Partners  

 

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