This morning the Hollywood Professional Association unveiled the HPA Award Creative Category nominees and ILM received seven nominations across three categories. In the Outstanding Visual Effects – Live Action Feature category, ILM received four of the five nominations.
For the Live Action Feature category, ILM was nominated for Alien: Romulus (Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Ale’ Melendez, Sebastian Ravagnani, Nicolas Caillier, Steven Denyer), The Creator (James Clyne, Trevor Hazel, Keith Anthony-Brown, Danielle Legovich, David Dally), Deadpool & Wolverine (Vincent Papaix, Georg Kaltenbrunner, Alexander Poei, Ziad Shureih, Russell Lum), and A Quiet Place: Day One (Malcolm Humphreys, Jordan Harding, Charmaine Chan, Michael Lum, Steve Hardy).
For Outstanding Visual Effects – Animated Feature, ILM received a nomination for Ultraman: Rising (Hayden Jones, Stefan Drury, Sean M. Murphy, Mathieu Vig, Kyle Winkelman). This nomination was one of just two in this category; our friends at Pixar received the other nomination for Inside Out 2.
In the Outstanding Visual Effects – Live Action Episode or Series Season category, ILM received two of the five nominations for: Loki – Season 2 (Steve Moncur, Christian Waite, Jeremy Sawyer, Ben Aickin, Pieter Warmington) and Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Season 1 (Erik Henry, Matt Robken, Jeff White, Jose Burgos, Donny Rausch).
The HPA Awards Gala will take place on November 7, 2024, at the Television Academy’s Wolf Theater in Hollywood.