- Share this article on Facebook
- Share this article on Twitter
- Share this article on Flipboard
- Share this article on Email
- Show additional share options
- Share this article on Reddit
- Share this article on Comment
- Share this article on Whatsapp
- Share this article on Pinit
- Share this article on Linkedin
- Share this article on Print
- Share this article on Tumblr
Oscar hopefuls The Lion King and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood won Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Awards, Thursday night at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
The VFX team behind Jon Favreau's virtual production of The Lion King collected the trophy for best feature VFX. Lion King's VFX supervisor, three-time Oscar winner Robert Legato, was additionally recognized with the HPA Lifetime Achievement Award.
The honored Lion King VFX team also included Andrew R. Jones, Tom Peitzman and VFX house MPC's Adam Valdez, Elliot Newman and Audrey Ferrara.
Editor Fred Raskin won the award for editing Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Also in the feature categories, a team from Godzilla: King of Monsters won the award for sound, including Tim LeBlanc and Tom Ozanich from Warner Bros.; and Erik Aadahl, Nancy Nugent and Jason W. Jennings representing E Squared. EFILM colorist Natasha Leonnet's work on Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse was recognized for outstanding color grading (she was also nominated in the category for First Man). As the HPA Awards eligibility period runs from September to September, some of last year's Oscar winners were nominated alongside some of this year's hopefuls.
During the ceremony, Peter Jacksons's documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, which incorporating restored archival footage from the Imperial War Museum, won the Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation. Veteran journalist Peter Caranicas of Variety was honored as the inaugural HPA Legacy Award recipient.
Engineering excellence awards were presented to Adobe for Content-Aware Fill for Video in After Effects, Epic Games for Unreal Engine 4, Pixelworks for TrueCut Motion, and Portrait Displays and LG for the Calman LUT-based auto-calibration Integration with LG OLED TVs. Honorable mentions were awarded to Ambidio for Ambidio Looking Glass, Grass Valley for Creative Grading and Netflix for Photon.
The competitive categories honored color grading, editing, sound and visual effects, in feature, episode and commercial projects. A complete list of these winners is below.
-
Outstanding Color Grading – Theatrical Feature
WINNER Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Natasha Leonnet // EFILMFirst Man
Natasha Leonnet // EFILMRoma
Steven J. Scott // TechnicolorGreen Book
Walter Volpatto // FotoKemThe Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Tom Poole // Company 3Us
Michael Hatzer // Technicolor -
Outstanding Color Grading – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature
WINNER Game of Thrones – "Winterfell"
Joe Finley // Sim, Los AngelesThe Handmaid's Tale – "Liars"
Bill Ferwerda // Deluxe TorontoThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – "Vote for Kennedy, Vote for Kennedy"
Steven Bodner // Light IronI Am the Night – "Pilot"
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3Gotham – "Legend of the Dark Knight: The Trial of Jim Gordon"
Paul Westerbeck // Picture ShopThe Man in The High Castle – "Jahr Null"
Roy Vasich // Technicolor -
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
WINNER Hennessy X.O. – "The Seven Worlds"
Stephen Nakamura // Company 3Zara – "Woman Campaign Spring Summer 2019"
Tim Masick // Company 3Tiffany & Co. – "Believe in Dreams: A Tiffany Holiday"
James Tillett // Moving Picture CompanyPalms Casino – "Unstatus Quo"
Ricky Gausis // Moving Picture CompanyAudi – "Cashew"
Tom Poole // Company 3
THR Newsletters
Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day