2010 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards winners announced

On Thursday night, the Hollywood Post Alliance held its 5th annual awards ceremony at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The HPA Awards are given to those working behind the scenes in motion pictures, television and commercials. Nominations were announced in September and special awards were also previously announced, including a Lifetime Achievement Award for Ted Gagliano, President of 20th Century Fox

The HPA describes itself as "the trade association serving the professional community of businesses and individuals who provide expertise, support, tools and the infrastructure for the creation and finishing of motion pictures, television, commercials, digital media and other dynamic media content."

In the feature film categories, Inception won for Outstanding Editing, District 9 received the award for Outstanding Sound, Alice in Wonderland  took the Outstanding Color Grading using a DI (Digital Intermediate) Process, and Avatar received the award for Outstanding Compositing.

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complete list of 2010 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards winners:

Outstanding Color Grading using a DI process - Feature Film
Alice in Wonderland                                  
Stefan Sonnenfeld // Company 3

Outstanding Color Grading - Television
The Pacific - Episode Five
Steve Porter // Riot

Outstanding Color Grading - Commercial
AT&T - Legends                            
Siggy Ferstl // Company 3

Outstanding Editing - Feature Film
Inception
Lee Smith

Outstanding Editing - Television
Lost  - The End
Mark J. Goldman, Christopher Nelson, Stephen Semel and Henk van Eeghen// Touchstone Television
                     
Outstanding Editing - Commercial
American Express - Geoffrey Canada
Chris Franklin // Big Sky Editorial

Outstanding Sound - Feature Film        
District 9
Michael Hedges, Gilbert Lake, Brent Burge and Chris Ward // Park Road Post Production

Outstanding Sound - Television
House - Help Me
Brad North, Joe DeAngelis, Luis Galdames and Jackie Oster // Universal Sound
         
Outstanding Sound - Commercial
Devil - Theatrical Trailer #1
David Brolin // Universal Studios
Phil Daccord // Giaronomo

Outstanding Compositing - Feature Film
Avatar
Erik Winquist, Robin Hollander, Erich Eder and Giuseppe Tagliavini // Weta Digital

Outstanding Compositing - Commercial
Kia Soul - This or That
Diramid Harrison Murray, Russell Dodgson, Tim Osborne and Adam Rowland // Framestore

SPECIAL AWARDS

Lifetime Achievement Award
Ted Gagliano, President of 20th Century Fox Feature Post Production

Engineering Excellence Award
ALEXA
Arnold + Richter Cine Technik (ARRI)

Open EXR workflow
Digital Vision

Davio processor
Cine-tal

Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation
nextLAB Mobile
FotoKem

Custom Image Processing
Reliance MediaWorks

GLoW
Gradient Effects

OUTPOST and LIGHTSTREAM
Light Iron Digital