2008 HPA Awards
OUTSTANDING COLOR GRADING
Outstanding Color Grading - Feature Film in a DI Process
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WINNER“Iron Man” Steven J. Scott // EFILM
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Nominee:“Sweeny Todd” Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
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Nominee:“Kite Runner” Mike Sowa // LaserPacific Media Corporation
Outstanding Color Grading - Television
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WINNERPushing Daisies “The Fun In Funerals” Joe Hathaway // LaserPacific Media Corporation
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Nominee:ESPN – “The Masters” Siggy Ferstl // RIOT
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Nominee:Andromeda Strain “Night 2, Part 1” Mike Sowa // LaserPacific Media Corporation
Outstanding Color Grading - Commercial
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WINNERJaguar “XF Hush” Alex Bickel // Outside Editorial
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Nominee:Travelers Insurance “Delivery” Sean Coleman // Company 3
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Nominee:Farmers Help Point “Drowned Circus” Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
OUTSTANDING EDITING
Outstanding Editing – Feature Film
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WINNER“The Dark Knight” Lee Smith, A.C.E.
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Nominee:“Iron Man” Dan Lebental, A.C.E.
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Nominee:“Into The Wild” Jay Cassidy, A.C.E.
Outstanding Editing – Television
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WINNERPushing Daisies “Pie-lette” Stuart Bass, A.C.E.
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Nominee:Mad Men “Indian Summer” David J. Siegel, A.C.E.
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Nominee:Breaking Bad “Pilot Episode” Lynne Willingham, A.C.E.
Outstanding Editing – Commercial
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WINNERJaguar “XF Hush” Neil Gust // Outside Editorial
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Nominee:Audi “Dream Cars” Jeff Ferruzzo // Outside Editorial
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Nominee:American Express “Airport Lounge” Chris Franklin // Big Sky Editorial
OUTSTANDING AUDIO POST
Outstanding Audio Post – Feature Film
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WINNER"Wall-E" Ben Burtt // Pixar Animation Studios; Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Matthew Wood // Skywalker Sound
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Nominee:"Into The Wild" Michael Minkler // Todd-AO; Lora Hirschberg // Skywalker Sound; Martin Hernandez // Ztrackz
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Nominee:"Wanted" Wylie Stateman and Harry Cohen // Soundelux; Christopher Jenkins and Frank A. Montano // Universal Studios
Outstanding Audio Post – Television
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WINNERCSI: Crime Scene Investigation “Cockroaches” Mace Matiosian, Ruth Adelman, David Vanslyke, Bill Smith, Yuri Reese, and Jivan Tahmizian // Todd-AO
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Nominee:John Adams “Episode 3” Marc Fishman and Tony Lamberti // Todd-AO; Stephen Hunter Flick and Vanessa Lapato // Warner Brothers Post
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Nominee:R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour “Don’t Think About It” Sam Kaufmann and Jon Schell // Media City Sound
Outstanding Audio Post – Commercial
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WINNERAudi RS6 “Gymnast” Tony Rapaccioli and Warren Hamilton // Wave Recording Studios and Tonic
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Nominee:Playstation 3 “Universe” Nathan Dubin // Margarita Mix Santa Monica
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Nominee:Samaritans “Vectorscope” Joe Mount // Wave Recording Studios
OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING
Outstanding Compositing – Commercial
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WINNERPontiac “Shwayze” Patrick Poulatian and Robert Sethi // Brickyard VFX
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Nominee:Mastercard “Mini” Chris Franklin, Agnes Gunawan and Ryan Sears // Big Sky Editorial
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Nominee:Dunkelziffer E.V. “Tentacle” Jamie White, Toby Walton, Matt Burn and Nathan Kane // Absolute Post
HPA ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE AWARD
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WINNERQuantel - Pablo Stereoscopic 3D
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WINNERFastSoft - E Series Internet Accelerator
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WINNERPanasonic - AVC-Inttra 100 Video Codec
HPA JUDGES AWARD FOR CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN POST PRODUCTION
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WINNERLaserPacific Media Corporation - accurateIMAGE (aIM)
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WINNERAlan Davidson, Rob Engle, Layne Friedman and Buzz Hays // Sony Pictures Imageworks - “Beowulf 3D” stereoscopic post-production pipeline
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WINNERDigital Film Tree and Erik Whitmyre and David Woods // CBS/Paramount Television - A modern data-centric post network and workflow for “Everybody Hates Chris”
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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WINNERRonald D. Burdett, Sunset Digital
CHARLES S. SWARTZ AWARD
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WINNERElizabeth M. Daley, USC