The Hollywood Professional Association announced nominees in the 2017 HPA Awards creative categories recognizing achievements in editing, sound, VFX and color-grading for features, television programming and commercials.
As you’d expect, the feature-film nominees don’t exactly line up with the Oscars or the Emmys, partly because the eligibility dates are out of whack (works must have been released between September 7, 2016 through September 5, 2017 to qualify for the HPAs), but also because the HPA often takes a more careful look at the artistry that goes into films and TV programs that are commonly dismissed by Academy voters. You may not have heard of The Ivory Game, a late-2016 documentary about the illegal ivory trade, but it’s here in contention alongside awards favorites Hidden Figures, Lion, and Dunkirk for Outstanding Editing honors.
For the most part, the HPA spread the wealth around, but there are a number of repeat performers on the list. Notably, colorists at Company 3 swept the category recognizing Outstanding Color Grading for commercials with five out of five nominations. Tom Poole is in competition with himself in this category, a status he shares with a couple of feature film colorists at Technicolor Hollywood — Steven J. Scott, nominated for grading both The Birth of a Nation and Doctor Strange, and Michael Hatzer, recognized for Ghost in the Shell and Fences. And there may be four commercials contending for Outstanding Editing, but only two editors have been nominated — Chris Franklin at Big Sky Edit, for both Nespresso “Comin’ Home” and Optum “Heroes,” and Doobie White at Therapy Studios for Bonafont “Choices” and SEAT “Moments.”
White shows up again on the roster for Outstanding Sound in a commercial, again for SEAT “Moments.” The same category features two nominations for Factory’s Anthony Moore: one for Virgin Media “This Is Fibre” and another for Rio 2016 Paralympic Games “We’re the Superhumans.” And Formosa Group sound effects editor Mark Stoeckinger is nominated for feature films Fate of the Furious and John Wick: Chapter 2, while dialogue editor Tiffany Griffith at Technicolor is in contention for episodes of Stranger Things and American Gods.
The HPA Awards ceremony is scheduled to take place November 16 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The full list of HPA Award nominees as provided by HPA follows below.
The 2017 HPA Award nominees are:
Outstanding Color Grading – Feature Film
“The Birth of a Nation”
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor – Hollywood
“Ghost in the Shell”
Michael Hatzer // Technicolor – Hollywood
“Hidden Figures”
Natasha Leonnet // EFILM
“Doctor Strange”
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor – Hollywood
“Beauty and the Beast”
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3
“Fences”
Michael Hatzer // Technicolor – Hollywood
Outstanding Color Grading – Television
“The Last Tycoon – Burying the Boy Genius”
Timothy Vincent // Technicolor – Hollywood
“Game of Thrones – Dragonstone”
Joe Finley // Chainsaw
“Genius – Einstein: Chapter 1”
Pankaj Bajpai // Encore Hollywood
“The Crown – Smoke and Mirrors”
Asa Shoul // Molinare
“The Man in the High Castle – Detonation”
Roy Vasich // Technicolor
Outstanding Color Grading – Commercial
Land O’ Lakes – “The Farmer”
Billy Gabor // Company 3
Pennzoil – “JOYRIDE Tundra”
Dave Hussey // Company 3
Jose Cuervo – “Last Days”
Tom Poole // Company 3
Nedbank – “The Tale of a Note”
Sofie Borup // Company 3
Squarespace – “John’s Journey”
Tom Poole // Company 3
Outstanding Editing – Feature Film
“Hidden Figures”
Peter Teschner
“Dunkirk”
Lee Smith, ACE
“The Ivory Game”
Verena Schönauer
“Get Out”
Gregory Plotkin
“Lion”
Alexandre de Franceschi
Outstanding Editing – Television
“Game of Thrones – Stormborn”
Tim Porter, ACE
“Stranger Things – Chapter 1: The Vanishing of Will Byers”
Dean Zimmerman
“Game of Thrones – The Queen’s Justice”
Jesse Parker
“Narcos – Al Fin Cayo!”
Matthew V. Colonna, Trevor Baker
“Westworld – The Original”
Stephen Semel, ACE, Marc Jozefowicz
“Game of Thrones – Dragonstone”
Crispin Green
Outstanding Editing – Commercial
Nespresso – “Comin’ Home”
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Edit
Bonafont – “Choices”
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Optum – “Heroes”
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Edit
SEAT – “Moments”
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Outstanding Sound – Feature Film
“Fate of the Furious”
Peter Brown, Mark Stoeckinger, Paul Aulicino, Steve Robinson, Bobbi Banks // Formosa Group
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”
Addison Teague, Dave Acord, Chris Boyes, Lora Hirschberg // Skywalker Sound
“Sully”
Alan Murray, Bub Asman, John Reitz, Tom Ozanich // Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services
“John Wick: Chapter 2”
Mark Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin, Andy Koyama, Martyn Zub, Gabe Serano // Formosa Group
“Doctor Strange”
Shannon Mills, Tom Johnson, Juan Peralta, Dan Lauris // Skywalker Sound
Outstanding Sound – Television
“Underground – Soldier”
Larry Goeb, Mark Linden, Tara Paul // Sony Pictures Post
“Stranger Things – Chapter 8: The Upside Down”
Craig Henigham // FOX
Joe Barnett, Adam Jenkins, Jordan Wilby, Tiffany Griffith // Technicolor – Hollywood
“Game of Thrones – The Spoils of War”
Tim Kimmel, MPSE, Paula Fairfield, Mathew Waters, CAS, Onnalee Blank, CAS, Bradley C. Katona, Paul Bercovitch // Formosa Group
“The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble”
Pete Horner // Skywalker Sound
Dimitri Tisseyre // Envelope Music + Sound
Dennis Hamlin // Hamlin Sound
“American Gods – The Bone Orchard”
Bradley North, Joseph DeAngelis, Kenneth Kobett, David Werntz, Tiffany S. Griffith // Technicolor
Outstanding Sound – Commercial
Honda – “Up”
Anthony Moore, Neil Johnson, Jack Hallett // Factory
Sian Rogers // SIREN
Virgin Media – “This Is Fibre”
Anthony Moore // Factory
Kia – “Hero’s Journey”
Nathan Dubin // Margarita Mix Santa Monica
SEAT – “Moments”
Doobie White // Therapy Studios
Rio 2016 Paralympic Games – “We’re the Superhumans”
Anthony Moore // Factory
Outstanding Visual Effects – Feature Film
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”
Gary Brozenich, Sheldon Stopsack, Patrick Ledda, Richard Clegg, Richard Little // MPC
“War for the Planet of the Apes”
Dan Lemmon, Anders Langlands, Luke Millar, Erik Winquist, Daniel Barrett // Weta Digital
“Beauty and the Beast”
Kyle McCulloch, Glen Pratt, Richard Hoover, Dale Newton, Neil Weatherley // Framestore
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”
Guy Williams, Kevin Andrew Smith, Charles Tait, Daniel Macarin, David Clayton // Weta Digital
“Ghost in the Shell”
Guillaume Rocheron, Axel Bonami, Arundi Asregadoo, Pier Lefebvre, Ruslan Borysov // MPC
Outstanding Visual Effects – Television
“Black Sails – XXIX”
Erik Henry
Yafei Wu, Nicklas Andersson, David Wahlberg // Important Looking Pirates
Martin Lippman // Rodeo
“The Crown – Windsor”
Ben Turner, Tom Debenham, Oliver Cubbage, Lionel Heath, Charlie Bennett // One of Us
“Taboo – Episode One”
Henry Badgett, Nic Birmingham, Simon Rowe, Alexander Kirichenko, Finlay Duncan // BlueBolt VFX
“Ripper Street – Occurrence Reports”
Ed Bruce, Nicholas Murphy, Denny Cahill, Piotr Swigut, Mark Pinheiro // Screen Scene
“Westworld – The Bicameral Mind”
Jay Worth // Deep Water FX
Bobo Skipper, Gustav Ahren, Jens Tenland // Important Looking Pirates
Paul Ghezzo // COSA VFX
Outstanding Visual Effects – Commercial
Walmart – “Lost & Found”
Morgan MacCuish, Michael Ralla, Aron Hjartarson, Todd Herman // Framestore
Honda – “Keep the Peace”
Laurent Ledru, Georgia Tribuiani, Justin Booth-Clibborn, Ellen Turner // Psyop
Nespresso – “Comin’ Home”
Martin Lazaro, Murray Butler, Nick Fraser, Callum McKevney // Framestore
Kia – “Hero’s Journey”
Robert Sethi, Chris Knight, Tom Graham, Jason Bergman // The Mill
Walmart – “The Gift”
Mike Warner, Kurt Lawson, Charles Trippe, Robby Geis // ZERO VFX
