Nominations were announced yesterday for this year’s Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) Awards. Summer blockbusters Star Trek Into Darkness, Pacific Rim and Iron Man 3 lead the 2012 race with three noms each.
Peter Jackson‘s Park Road Post Production will receive the HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production for the development of its feature workflow enabling high frame rate (48 frames per second) stereoscopic 3D, which was used for the first time on Jackson’s The Hobbit.
Additionally, four technologies will be recognized with awards for engineering excellence. They are DTS’s MDA (multi dimensional audio); NVIDIA GRID Visual Computing Appliance; Flix from Sony Pictures Imageworks and The Foundry; and Telestream’s 16 bit 4:4:4:4 transcoding technology.
The HPA Awards–which this year will take place on Nov. 7 at the Skirball Cultural Center–recognize color grading, editing, sound and visual effects in features, TV and commercials.
The 2013 HPA nominees are:
Outstanding Color Grading – Feature Film
Star Trek Into Darkness
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
Oblivion
Mike Sowa // Technicolor
Anna Karenina
Adam Glasman // Company 3
Life of Pi
David Cole // Technicolor
Pacific Rim
Maxine Gervais // Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging
Iron Man 3
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor
Man of Steel
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
Outstanding Color Grading – Television
“Castle – Hunt”
Anthony Smith // Encore Hollywood
“Behind the Candelabra”
John Daro // FotoKem
“Hell on Wheels – Slaughterhouse”
Steven Porter // MTI FILM
“Game of Thrones – Kissed By Fire”
Joe Finley // Modern VideoFilm
“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Ghosts of the Past”
Paul Westerbeck // Encore Hollywood
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
Call of Duty Masks
Dave Hussey // Company 3
Louis Vuitton “L’Invitation Au Voyage”
Tim Masick // Company 3
Procter & Gamble: Thank You, Mom “Best Job”
Adam Scott // The Mill
Under Armour “Brought To You By Under Armour”
Tom Poole // Company 3
Mercedes-Benz “Soul”
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
Outstanding Editing – Feature Film
Zero Dark Thirty
William Goldenberg, A.C.E. and Dylan Tichenor, A.C.E.
Flight
Jeremiah O’Driscoll
Les Miserables
Melanie Ann Oliver and Chris Dickens, A.C.E.
Star Trek Into Darkness
Maryann Brandon, A.C.E. and MaryJo Markey, A.C.E.
Argo
William Goldenberg, A.C.E.
Outstanding Editing – Television
“Breaking Bad – Gliding Over All”
Kelley Dixon, A.C.E.
“Dexter – Are You…?”
Louis Cioffi, A.C.E.
“Downton Abbey – Series 3, Episode 5”
John Wilson, A.C.E. // Carnival Film & Television
“Breaking Bad – Dead Freight”
Skip MacDonald, A.C.E.
“American Horror Story: Asylum – Welcome To Briarcliff”
Joe Leonard and Bradley Buecker, A.C.E.
Outstanding Editing – Commercial
Verizon Wireless “Big Vision”
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Editorial
Nextel/Ferrari “Combustion”
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Verizon Wireless “Brothers”
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Editorial
Obama for America “Lena’s First Time”
Cristina Rackoff // Big Sky Editorial
Ragu “Hamster”
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Editorial
Outstanding Sound – Feature Film
Gangster Squad
Cameron Frankley and Dean Zupancic // Warner Bros. Sound
Jason W. Jennings and Jon Taylor, CAS
Argo
Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
John Reitz and Gregg Rudloff // Warner Bros. Sound
Pacific Rim
Scott Gershin // Formosa Group
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Timothy O. LeBlanc // Warner Bros. Sound
Iron Man 3
Mark Stoeckinger, Michael Keller, Mike Prestwood Smith and Andrew DeCrisofaro // Todd/Soundelux
Turbo
Richard King and Michael Babcock // Warner Bros. Sound
Andy Nelson // Fox Studios Post Production Services
Outstanding Sound – Television
“Banshee – Pilot”
Brad North, Elmo Ponsdomenech, William Freesh, Luis Galdames and Tiffany Griffith // Universal Sound
“Dexter – A Beautiful Day”
Pete Elia, CAS; Kevin Roache, CAS; Fredric Judkins, MPSE; Christian Buenaventura and John Snider // Technicolor Creative Services
“The Americans – Mutually Assured Destruction”
Ken Hahn, James Redding and Neil Cedar // Digital Cinema, LLC
“Homeland – Beirut is Back”
Alan Decker and Nello Torri // Universal Sound
Craig Dellinger, Larry Long and Jonathan Golodner // Sony Pictures Studios
“Game of Thrones – The Climb”
Paula Fairfield, Brad Katona, Jed Dodge, Onnalee Blank and Mathew Waters // Todd AO
Outstanding Sound – Commercial
Honda “Hands”
Anthony Moore // Factory
Lurpak “Weave Your Magic”
Aaron Reynolds // Wave Studios
Barclaycard “Toys”
Sam Robson // Factory
Nextel/Ferrari “Combustion”
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Lurpak “Good, Proper Food”
Dan Beckwith // Factory
Outstanding Visual Effects – Feature Film
Man of Steel
Keith Miller, Daniel Barrett, Phillip Leonhardt, Thelvin Cabezas and Mark Tait // Weta Digital
Star Trek Into Darkness
Dan Pearson, Jay Cooper, Alex Prichard and Adrien Saint Girons // Industrial Light & Magic
Adam Watkins // Pixomondo
Iron Man 3
Guy Williams, Aaron Gilman, Matt Aitken, Dan Macarin and Thrain Shadbolt // Weta Digital
Pacific Rim
Lindy DeQuattro, Eddie Pasquarello, Nigel Sumner, Derrick Carlin and Chris Lentz // Industrial Light & Magic
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White and Eric Reynolds // Weta Digital
Outstanding Visual Effects – Television
“Banshee – Pilot”
Armen Kevorkian, Mike Oakley, Jeremy Jozwik, Andranik Taranyan and Gevork Babityan // Encore VFX
“Under the Dome – Pilot”
Stephan Fleet, Matthieu Perin, Jeremy Jozwik, Chad Schott and Arutyun Arthur Sayan // Encore Hollywood
“Game of Thrones – Valar Dohaeris”
Joe Bauer and Jabbar Raisani
Jörn Grosshans and Sven Martin // Pixomondo
Doug Campbell // Spin VFX
“Magic City – Angels of Death”
Mark Velazquez, Seth Brower, Doug Ludwig, Jeremy Jozwik and Chad Schott // Encore Hollywood
“Hawaii Five-0 – La O Na Makuahine”
Armen Kevorkian, Jeremy Jozwik, Rick Ramirez, Gevork Babityan and Andranik Taranyan // Encore VFX
Outstanding Visual Effects – Commercial
Galaxy “Chauffeur”
Simon French, William Bartlett, Stephen Cullingford and Grant Walker // Framestore
Johnnie Walker “Where Flavour Is King”
Colin Renshaw // Alt.vfx
Kia “Space Babies”
Brian Burke, Charles Abou Aad, Jordan Harris and Patrick Ferguson // Method Studios
Abbott’s Village Bakery “Free Range”
Colin Renshaw // Alt.vfx
Qualcomm Snapdragon “Coming Soon”
James Dick, Andy Rowan Robinson, Shayne Ryan and Russell Dodgson // Framestore
Tickets for the HPA Awards are available now and can be purchased online at www.hpaawards.net.
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