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For the third consecutive year, The Hollywood Post Alliance presented its HPA Awards to the top behind-the-scenes talent working in motion pictures, television and commercials. In addition to craft category kudos, special awards for Engineering Excellence, Lifetime Achievement, the first Charles S. Swartz Award and the newly launched HPA Judges Awards, all announced earlier, were also awarded on November 6th to a standing room only industry audience.

The winners of the 2008 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards are:

Outstanding Color Grading – Feature Film in a DI Process
“Iron Man”
Steven J. Scott // EFilm

Outstanding Color Grading - Television
“Pushing Daisies - The Fun in Funerals”
Joe Hathaway // LaserPacific Media Corporation

Outstanding Color Grading - Commercial
Jaguar “XF Hush”
Alex Bickel // Outside Editorial

Outstanding Editing – Feature Film
“The Dark Knight”
Lee Smith, A.C.E.

Outstanding Editing - Television
“Pushing Daisies - Pie-Lette”
Stuart Bass, A.C.E

Outstanding Editing- Commercial
Jaguar “XF Hush”
Neil Gust // Outside Editorial

Outstanding Audio Post- Feature Film
“Wall-E”
Ben Burtt // Pixar Animation Studios
Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Matthew Wood // Skywalker Sound

Outstanding Audio Post - Television
“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Cockroaches"
Mace Matiosian, Ruth Adelman, David Vanslyke, Bill Smith, Yuri Reese and Jivan Tahmizian // Todd-AO

Outstanding Audio Post- Commercial
Audi RS6 “Gymnast”
Tony Rapaccioli and Warren Hamilton // Wave Recording Studios and Tonic

Outstanding Compositing – Commercial
Pontiac “Shwayze”
Patrick Poulatian and Robert Sethi // Brickyard VFX

SPECIAL AWARDS:

The Charles S. Swartz Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Post Production:
Elizabeth Daley, Dean, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts

Lifetime Achievement Award:
Ron Burdett

Engineering Excellence Award:
Quantel
FastSoft
Panasonic

HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production
DigitalFilm Tree and CBS
aIM – Laser pacific
Sony Pictures Imageworks