The Hollywood Professional Association Awards exist to recognize the best of the best when it comes to the technical side of the business we love but rarely think about, from color grading to sound to editing to visual effects. The most recent ceremony went down last night at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Game of Thrones was the only movie, TV or commercial to walk away with more than one award.
Check out the winners below!
Peter Parker as Spider-Man (Jake Johnson) in Sony Pictures Animation’s SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE.
Outstanding Color Grading – Theatrical Feature
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Natasha Leonnet – EFILM)
- First Man
- Roma
- Green Book
- The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
- Us
Outstanding Color Grading – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature
- Game of Thrones – “Winterfell” (Joe Finley – Sim, Los Angeles)
- The Handmaid’s Tale – “Liars”
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – “Vote for Kennedy, Vote for Kennedy”
- I Am the Night – “Pilot”
- Gotham – “Legend of the Dark Knight: The Trial of Jim Gordon”
- The Man in The High Castle – “Jahr Null”
I’m not exacting sure what “color grading” is, but I’m sure “Winterfell” had it.
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
- Hennessy X.O. – “The Seven Worlds” (Stephen Nakamura – Company 3)
- Zara – “Woman Campaign Spring Summer 2019”
- Tiffany & Co. – “Believe in Dreams: A Tiffany Holiday”
- Palms Casino – “Unstatus Quo”
- Audi – “Cashew”
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 02: GRAMMY Museum Artistic Director Scott Goldman, Mark Lindsay, Quentin Tarantino and David Wild attend Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: An Evening With Quentin Tarantino & Friends at the GRAMMY Museum on October 02, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy )
Outstanding Editing – Theatrical Feature
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Fred Raskin, ACE)
- Green Book
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
- The Other Side of the Wind
- A Star Is Born
Quentin Tarantino’s movies are always of the highest technical quality, so this win is no surprise.
Episode 59 (Season 7, Episode 1), debuts 3/31/19: Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
photo: Colleen Hayes/HBO
Outstanding Editing – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature (30 Minutes and Under)
- VEEP – “Pledge” (Roger Nygard, ACE)
- Russian Doll – “The Way Out”
- Homecoming – “Redwood”
- Withorwithout
- Russian Doll – “Ariadne”
Stranger Things season 3 Jim Hopper. Image courtesy of Netflix.
Outstanding Editing – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature (Over 30 Minutes)
- Stranger Things – “Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt” (Dean Zimmerman, ACE, Katheryn Naranjo)
- Chernobyl – “Vichnaya Pamyat”
- Game of Thrones – “The Iron Throne”
- Game of Thrones – “The Long Night”
- The Bodyguard – “Episode One”
The explosive finale of Stranger Things season 3 wins out over two equally explosive episodes from the final season of Game of Thrones. That was the one big surprise for me here, but I’m not an editing expert, so sure, let’s roll with it.
GODZILLA in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Outstanding Sound – Theatrical Feature
- Godzilla: King of Monsters (Tim LeBlanc, Tom Ozanich, MPSE – Warner Bros.,
Erik Aadahl, MPSE, Nancy Nugent, MPSE, Jason W. Jennings – E Squared) - Shazam!
- Smallfoot
- Roma
- Aquaman
HOLLYWOOD, CA – OCTOBER 08: Netflix Director of Original Series Blair Fetter, Executive Producer Meredith Averill, Netflix Director Global Originals Laura Delahaye, Netflix VP of Original Content Cindy Holland, Elizabeth Reaser, Carla Gugino, Michiel Huisman, Victoria Pedretti, Kate Siegel and Oliver Jackson-Cohen attend the premiere of Neflix’s “The Haunting Of Hill House” at ArcLight Hollywood on October 8, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Outstanding Sound – Episodic or Non-theatrical Feature
- The Haunting of Hill House – “Two Storms” (Trevor Gates, MPSE, Jason Dotts, Jonathan Wales, Paul Knox, Walter Spencer – Formosa Group)
- Chernobyl – “1:23:45”
- Deadwood: The Movie
- Game of Thrones – “The Bells”
- Homecoming – “Protocol”
Is “Two Storms” the one where there are almost no cuts? Sure, give it an award.
Outstanding Sound – Commercial
- John Lewis & Partners – “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Mark Hills, Anthony Moore – Factory)
- Audi – “Life”
- Leonard Cheshire Disability – “Together Unstoppable”
- New York Times – “The Truth Is Worth It: Fearlessness”
- John Lewis & Partners – “The Boy and the Piano”
Credit: Disney
Outstanding Visual Effects – Theatrical Feature
- The Lion King (Adam Valdez, Elliot Newman, Audrey Ferrara – MPC Film,
Tom Peitzman – T&C Productions) - Avengers: Endgame
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
- Alita: Battle Angel
- Pokemon Detective Pikachu
Sure, the CGI animals in the “live-action” Lion King may not have been expressive as their animated counterparts, but the fur effects were outstanding.
Image: HBO/Game of Thrones
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episodic (Under 13 Episodes) or Non-theatrical Feature
- Game of Thrones – “The Bells” (Steve Kullback, Joe Bauer, Ted Rae, Mohsen Mousavi – Scanline, Thomas Schelesny – Image Engine)
- Game of Thrones – “The Long Night”
- The Umbrella Academy – “The White Violin”
- The Man in the High Castle – “Jahr Null”
- Chernobyl – “1:23:45”
Of course, “The Bells” won an award for visual effects. Thing looks spectacular.
THE ORVILLE: L-R: Jessica Szohr, Peter Macon, Adrianne Palicki and Seth MacFarlane in the ÒIdentity Pt. 1Ó episode of THE ORVILLE airing Thursday, Feb. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2018 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Kevin Estrada/FOX
Outstanding Visual Effects – Episodic (Over 13 Episodes)
- The Orville – “Identity: Part II” (Tommy Tran, Kevin Lingenfelser, Joseph Vincent Pike – FuseFX, Brandon Fayette, Brooke Noska // Twentieth Century Fox TV)
- Hawaii Five-O – “Ke iho mai nei ko luna”
- 9-1-1 – “7.1”
- Star Trek: Discovery – “Such Sweet Sorrow Part 2”
- The Flash – “King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd”
Congrats to all the winners!
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