'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' Tops VFX Competition at Postproduction Awards
The visual effects on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes topped last year’s Oscar winner Gravity, to win the feature VFX category at the 9th annual Hollywood Post Alliance Awards, Thursday at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
Gravity did however collect a pair of HPA Awards. On the strength of Alfonso Cuaron’s space-set adventure, Technicolor colorist Steve Scott won the feature color grading category; and the sound mixing and editing team won the trophy for best sound.
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The eligibility period for the HPA Awards runs from September to September, which is why some of last year's Oscar winners and nominees competed against this year's hopefuls.
Rounding out the feature competition, Christopher Rouse won the HPA award for feature editing for Captain Phillips.
In the television categories, Skip MacDonald won the HPA award for editing the finale of Breaking Bad, and the Game of Thrones VFX team repeated its 2013 win. Modern VideoFilm’s colorist David Cole won the TV color grading award for the pilot of Reign, and Toy Story of Terror topped the sound field.
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Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented editors Alan Heim, who won an Oscar for All the Jazz; and Randy Roberts, whose TV credits include his Emmy nominated work on Chicago Hope. The pair were recognized both for the body of work and contributions to the industry. Heim currently serves as president of American Cinema Editors and the Motion Picture Editors Guild. Roberts is past president of ACE, and has served on its board for more than two decades.
Also during the evening, the American Society of Cinematographers Color Decision List (ASC CDL)—developed by the ASC Technology Committee DI subcommittee with contributions from a broad group of industry participants—received the HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Postproduction.
DigitalFilm Tree additionally received a Creativity and Innovation Award, for its cloud post workflow initiative, which takes advantage of OpenStack open source cloud computing software.
HPA Engineering Excellence Awards were presented to Macom, for its 12G-SDI chipset; Nvidia, for its Visual Computing Appliance; and Wohler and Cinnafilm, for their Tachyon Wormhole file-based retiming and transcoding system.
The winners of the 2014 HPA Awards are:
Outstanding Color Grading – Feature Film
“Gravity”
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor
Outstanding Color Grading – Television
“Reign – Pilot”
David Cole // Modern VideoFilm
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
Doosan “Heavy Industries”
Siggy Ferstl // Company 3
Outstanding Editing – Feature Film
"Captain Phillips"
Christopher Rouse, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Television
"Breaking Bad – Felina"
Skip Macdonald, ACE
Outstanding Editing – Commercial
Nissan Juke “Trigger”
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Outstanding Sound – Feature Film
“Gravity”
Glenn Fremantle // Sound 24
Skip Lievsay // Warner Bros. Sound
Christopher Benstead and Niv Adiri // Warner Bros. De Lane Lea
Outstanding Sound – Television
“Toy Story OF TERROR!”
Axel Geddes // Pixar Animation Studios
Tom Myers, Gary Summers, Michael Silvers and Dustin Cawood // Skywalker Sound
Outstanding Sound – Commercial
Honda Europe “Inner Beauty”
Anthony Moore and Tom Joyce // Factory
Outstanding Visual Effects – Feature Film
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist, Keith Miller and Paul Story // Weta Digital
Outstanding Visual Effects – Television
“Game of Thrones – The Children”
Joe Bauer // Fire and Blood Productions
Sven Martin // Pixomondo
Jörn Grosshans // Mackevision
Thomas Schelesny // Scanline VFX
Matthew Rouleau // Rodeo FX
Outstanding Visual Effects – Commercial
GE “Childlike Imagination”
Benjamin Walsh, Dominik Bauch and Brian Burke // Method Studios
Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation
American Society of Cinematographers –ASC CDL
DigitalFilmTree - Cloud Workflow initiative
Engineering Excellence Awards
Macom - 12G-SDI chipset
Nvidia - Visual Computing Appliance
Wohler and Cinnafilm - Tachyon Wormhole file-based retiming and transcoding system
