American Cinematographer - January 2009 - (Page 80)

Post Focus ing. Alex Bickel of Outside Editorial won for the Jaguar “XF Hush” commercial; Joe Hathaway of LaserPacific won for the Pushing Daisies episode “The Fun in Funerals”; and ASC associate member Steven J. Scott of EFilm won for Iron Man. Saluting the efforts of his fellow feature-film nominees — ASC associate member Stefan Sonnenfeld (Sweeney Todd) of Company 3 and Mike Sowa (The Kite Runner) of LaserPacific — Scott saved his greatest thanks for Iron Man’s cinematographer, Matthew Libatique, ASC. “There could be no better inspiration,” said Scott. “This is his vision, after all, and I was happy to be his conduit.” Other nominees for Outstanding Color Grading were Siggy Ferstl of Riot (“ESPN: The Masters”); Sowa (The Andromeda Strain, Part 1); Sean Coleman of Company 3 (Travelers Insurance, “Delivery”); and Sonnenfeld (Farmers Help Point, “Drowned Circus”). Outstanding Editing awards were presented to Lee Smith, ACE (The Dark Knight); Stuart Bass, ACE (Pushing Daisies, “Pie-Lette”); and Neil Gust of Outside Editorial (Jaguar, “XF Hush”). Patrick Poulatian and Robert Sethi of Brickyard VFX took home the Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial award for the Pontiac “Shwayze” spot. Outstanding Audio Post awards were handed out to Ben Burtt of Pixar Animation Studios and Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Matthew Wood of Skywalker Sound (Wall-E ); Mace Matiosian, Ruth Adelman, David Vanslyke, Bill Smith, Yuri Reese and Jivan Tahmizian of Todd-AO (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, “Cockroaches”); and Tony Rapaccioli and Warren Hamilton of Wave Recording Studios and Tonic (Audi RS6, “Gymnast”). The HPA inaugurated a new award this year in memory of Charles S. Swartz. The prize honors a person, group, company or technology that has Flanked by ASC president Daryn Okada (left) and Richard Crudo, ASC, EFilm’s Steven J. Scott poses with his HPA Award for Outstanding Color Grading, earned for his work on Iron Man. HPA Honors Excellence in Post by Jon D. Witmer At the third annual Hollywood Post Alliance Awards, held in early November in Los Angeles, ASC associate member and HPA President Leon Silverman noted, “We’re here to debunk the myth of the magic of Hollywood.” Over the next couple of hours, in front of an audience comprising professionals from all corners of the industry, the ceremony did just that. Actor, writer and director Wil Shriner set a comedic tone as the evening’s host, and the jovial atmosphere was maintained by the ceremony’s many presenters, including Joshua Pines, an ASC associate member and vice president of imaging research and development at Technicolor Digital Intermediates. Presenting the Engineering Excellence awards to Quantel (for the Pablo Stereoscopic 3-D system), FastSoft (for the E Series Internet Accelerator) and Panasonic (for the AVC-Intra 100 Video Codec), Pines looked at the two teleprompters in front him and joked, “It’s like a bad 3-D movie — luckily, it’s a fad!” The joke prompted a response from Rob Engle, Sony Pictures Imageworks’ digital-effects supervisor, who accepted a Judges’ Award for Creativity and Innovation in Postproduction for the stereoscopic post pipeline developed for Beowulf 3D. “Some might call it a fad,” Engle said. “I call it a revolution!” Judges’ Awards were also presented to DigitalFilm Tree and CBS/Paramount for the development and implementation of a modern datacentric post network and workflow, and to LaserPacific Media Corporation for AccurateImage, a color-calibrated endto-end process that delivers digital cinema-quality dailies that look like film. Glenn Kennel, LaserPacific’s vice president and general manager of feature film, offered special thanks to ASC President Daryn Okada for serving as AIM’s “very first customer — and first guinea pig.” Okada later stood at the podium alongside Richard Crudo, ASC to present the awards for Outstanding Color Grad- 80 January 2009 HPA photo by Ryan Miller, courtesy of Capture Imaging; Still Me photos and frame grabs courtesy of the filmmakers.

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American Cinematographer - January 2009 Contents Editor’s Note Short Takes: Triangle of Need Production Slate: Frost/Nixon, The Wrestler Close Focus An Old Soul Brothers in Arms A Cut Above Post Focus: HPA Awards, Still Me New Products & Services International Marketplace Classified Ads Ad Index In Memoriam: Robert C. Jessup, ASC Clubhouse News ASC Close-Up: Gabriel Beristain

American Cinematographer - January 2008

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