‘Barbie’ leads feature nominations for 2023 HPA Awards – The Hollywood Reporter
Barbie directs the feature film competition at the annual HPA Awards, whose nominations in features, TV, documentaries, commercials and restoration were announced Tuesday.
The post-production community nominated Greta Gerwig’s hit film for outstanding color correction, editing and sound. Close behind with two nominations each in the feature categories Oppenheimer (color correction and editing), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (sound and visual effects), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (color correction and editing), tar (color correction and editing) and Avatar: The Way of Waterfor the teams from Weta FX and Industrial Light & Magic were both nominated in the VFX category.
The eligibility period runs from September 2022 to September 2023, which is why some of last year’s Oscar winners and contenders are nominated alongside some of the upcoming season’s contenders.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony on November 9th at the Hollywood Legion Theater. The full list of nominees follows:
Excellent color grading – live action cinematic film
Barbie
Yvan Lucas (Company 3)
The Fabelmans
Michael Hatzer (picture shop)
Asteroid city
Gareth Spensley (Company 3)
Oppenheimer
Kostas Theodosiou, Kristen Zimmerman (PhotoKem)
tar
Tim Masick (Company 3)
Excellent color grading – animated feature film
Elementary
Susan Brunig (Pixar Animation Studios)
The Super Mario Bros. movie
Jason Hanel (Company 3)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Natasha Leonnet (Image Shop)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Mitch Paulson (Company 3)
Excellent color correction – live action episode or non-theatrical feature film
swarm “Stung”
Alastor Pan Arnold (Keep me updated)
Time to Win: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty “The New World”
Walter Volpatto (Company 3)
American gigolo “Pilot”
Shane Harris (Image Shop)
Great expectations “Episode 2”
Toby Tomkins (Port)
Wednesday “Wednesday’s child is full of sorrow”
Siggy Ferstl (Company 3)
Excellent Color Grading – Documentary
descendant
Sam Daley (Light Iron)
Bono & The Edge: A Homecoming of Sort with Dave Letterman/
Taylor Black (Apache)
Still: A Michael J. Fox film
Stefan Sonnenfeld, Adam Nazarenko (Company 3)
Chimpanzee empire “Paradise”
Blair Wallace (Evolution post-production)
Shaq “From Shaquille to Shaq”
Taylor Black (Apache)
Excellent color correction – commercial
Zara Man SS23 Studio Collection
Tim Masick (Company 3)
Levi’s “A Fair Exchange in the Greatest Story of All Time”
Sofie Borup (Company 3)
Expedia “Wisdom & Obi”
Mark Gethin (traffic)
Duracell x Williams Racing “Scream”
Tyler Roth (Company 3)
Belvedere “Daniel Craig”
Matthieu Toulet (Company 3)
Excellent editing – cinema film
Barbie
Nick Houy, ACE
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Eddie Hamilton, ACE
Oppenheimer
Jennifer Lame, ACE
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Michael Andrews, ACE
tar
Monika Willi
Outstanding Editing – Episode or Non-Theatrical Feature Film (30 minutes and less)
The Righteous Gems “Burn by burn, wound by wound, strip by strip.”
Justin Bourret, ACE
Barry “It takes a psycho”
Franky Guttman, ACE
What we do in the shadows “Local News”
AJ Dickerson, ACE, Thomas Calderon
Barry “a nice meal”
Ali Greer
How To with John Wilson “How to Watch Birds”
Cori Wapnowska
Outstanding Editing – Episode or non-theatrical feature film (over 30 minutes)
The last of us “Endure and survive”
Timothy A. Good, ACE, Emily Mendez
White House Plumbers “The Break-in in Beverly Hills”
Erick Fefferman, Roger Nygard
Succession “With open eyes”
Ken Eluto, ACE
The White Lotus “Incoming Derci”
John M. Valerio, ACE
White House Plumbers “True Believers”
Grady Cooper, Jon Merchen
Excellent editing – documentary
100 foot wave “Lost at Sea”
Alex Keipper, Alex Bayer
A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
Eric Schuman
I’m Mary Tyler Moore
Mariah Rehmet
Branson “Episode 2, Atlantic”
Paul Trewartha
Moon daydream
Brett Morgen
Excellent sound – cinematic
Barbie
Ai-Ling Lee, Kevin O’Connell, Dan Kenyon // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Scott Gershin, Chris Richardson, Masanobu “Tomi” Tomita, Andrew Vernon, Dan Gamache // Sound Lab a Keywords Studio
Creed III
Aaron Glascock, Tom Ozanich, Walter Spencer, Curt Schulkey // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mark Stoeckinger, Andy Koyama, Casey Genton, Alan Rankin, Manfred Banach // Formosa Group
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Jason W. Jennings, Julian Slater, Greg P. Russell, Paul Pirola, Ken McGill, Mia Stewart // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Excellent sound – episode or non-theatrical film
“Star Trek: Picard – The Last Generation”
Matthew E. Taylor, Michael Schapiro, Todd Grace, Ed Carr III, Ian Shedd // Warner Bros. Post Production Services
The last of us “Infected”
Michael Benavente, Marc Fishman, Kevin Roache, Chris Terhune, Chris Battaglia (Formosa Group)
Barry “It takes a psycho”
Sean Heissinger, Matthew E. Taylor, John Creed, Rickley Dumm (Warner Bros. Post Production Services)
Elmo Ponsdomenech, Teddy Salas (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Wednesday “A murder full of suffering”
Mike Baskerville, Jamie Sulek, John Loranger, Alastair Gray, Dan Sexton (Company 3)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds “Hegemony”
Matthew E. Taylor, Michael Schapiro, Todd Grace, Ed Carr III, Sean Heissinger (Warner Bros. Post Production Services)
Excellent sound – documentary
32 sounds
Mark Mangini, Robert Kellough, Eliza Paley, Joanna Fang, Blake Collins, Formosa Group
A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
Daniel Timmons, Harbor Sound
Goodnight Oppy
Mark Mangini, Dave Whitehead, Tim Walston, Dave Bach, Angela Claverie // Formosa Group
If these walls could sing
George Foulgham, Philip Moroz, Alex Gibson, Tom Verstappen, Miles Sullivan, George Foulgham Soundscapes Ltd.
Moon daydream
Nina Hartstone, David Giammarco, John Warhurst, Paul Massey, Public Road Productions
Excellent visual effects – live action feature
Avatar: The Way of Water
Chris Edgen, Nick Epstein, Wayne Stables, Pavani Rao Boddapati, Sergei Nevshupov (Wētā FX)
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Aaron Weintraub, Jeffrey Schaper, Cameron Carson, Emma Gorbey, Warren Lawtey (MPC)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guy Williams, Daniel Macarin, Mike Cozens, Mark Smith, Marvyn Young (Wētā FX)
Avatar: The Way of Water
David Vickery, Lee Briggs, Jan Maroske, Steve Ellis, Miguel Perez-Senent (Industrial Light & Magic)
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Matt Aitken, Mike Perry, Aaron Cowan, Kevin Estey, Jong Jin Choi (Wētā FX)
Outstanding visual effects – live action episode or series season
Andor “Season One”
Mohen Leo, Scott Pritchard (Industrial Light & Magic)
TJ Falls (Lucasfilm)
Joseph Kasparian (hybrid)
Jelmer Boskma (Scanline)
House of the Dragon “The Heirs of the Dragon”
Angus Bickerton, Nikea Ford, Mike Bell (MPC)
Sven Martin, Mark Spindler (Pixomondo)
The last of us “Season One”
Simon Jung, Aaron Cowan, David Hampton, Dennis Yoo, Ben Roberts (Wētā FX)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power “Season One”
Ron Ames, Jason Smith, Jesse Kobayashi, Ryan Tudhope, Sam Scott (Amazon Studios)
The Mandalorian “Season Three”
Grady Cofer, Abbigail Keller, Paul Kavanagh, Delio Tramontozzi (ILM)
Bobo Skipper (important looking pirates)
Excellent supporting visual effects – episodic or series season
Barry “Season four”
Molly Pabian, Andrew Kalicki, Laura Hill, David Lopez, Justin Ball (Crafty Apes)
citadel “Secrets in the night need early rain”
Aladino Debert, Greg Teegarden, James Reid, Matthew Rotman, Viv Jim (Digital Domain)
Interview with the vampire “Is my nature that of a devil?”
Ted Rae, Tavis Larkham, Matthew Harris, Hugo Leveille, JV Pike (FuseFX)
The night agent “Season One”
Grant Miller, Hallana Barbosa, Pierceon Bellemare, Mariia Osanova, Ben Stommes (Ingenuity Studios)
The Righteous Gems “Season Three”
Bruce Branit, Valeri Pfahning (Rough House)
Fred Ruff (Refuge VFX)
Ed Bruce (Screen Scene Studios)
David Lebensfeld (Ingenuity Studios)
Excellent restoration work
Casablanca (1942) Warner Bros.
Cinderella (1959) Disney
Cimarron (1931) Warner Bros.
The Godfather (1972) Paramount Pictures
Winds of chance (1925) First National Pictures and Christopher Gray Post Production
