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“Dune: Part Two,” “Inside Out 2” and “The Creator” lead the feature nominations for this year’s Hollywood Professional Association (Hpa) Awards with three apiece. The awards will be presented during a Nov. 7 gala at the Television Academy in North Hollywood.

“Dune: Part Two” was nominated in the categories for color grading, editing and sound; “The Creator,” for color grading, sound and visual effects; and “Inside Out 2” for color grading in an animation feature, sound, and VFX in an animated feature. The eligibility period runs from September to September.

As previously announced, during the ceremony FotoKem will receive the Charles S. Swartz Award for industry contributions. Adobe, Disguise, Cuebric and Evercast will be honored for engineering excellence.

The list of nominees follows:

Outstanding Color Grading – Live Action Theatrical Feature

“Blink Twice” — Damien Vandercruyssen // Harbor

“The Creator” — David Cole // FotoKem

“Dune: Part Two” — David Cole // FotoKem

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On Sunday, August 11, HBO and Max celebrated their 2024 Emmys nominations with a star-studded, day-long gala of panels, mingling and fun photo ops. TV academy members in attendance were treated to breakfast in the morning, lunch in the afternoon featuring music from director Jamila Wignot‘s “Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.,” and a dinner reception in the evening with specialty cocktails and passed hors d’oeuvres. The FYC event took place at Nya Studios East in Hollywood.

This year, “True Detective: Night Country” leads all HBO and Max programming with a whopping 19 Emmy nominations, including for Best Limited Series and stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. “Hacks” is close behind with 16 bids, including for Best Comedy Series and actresses Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder. Find out who wins the gold when the Creative Arts ceremonies take place on September 7 and 8, and the Primetime event airs live on September 15.

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“A hack is someone who does the same thing over and over. Deborah is the opposite.”

That’s a line from Episode 8 of the third season of “Hacks,” but it’s also very much the ethos that co-creators Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs, and Lucia Aniello have brought to each season of the Max comedy; the show always leaves Vegas comedy legend Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her writer, the millennial trashfire Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), in a more interesting place than it found them. Equally, “Hacks” has evolved in its look and its scope.

The show became more visually ambitious in Season 3, with everything from massive drone shots to college rager montages; it also hones in on a level of detail that wordlessly intensifies the emotion of a given scene. Maintaining the tone and rhythm of the series while expanding what’s visually possible is the fun challenge for...

Curated by the IndieWire Crafts team, Craft Considerations is a platform for filmmakers to talk about recent work we believe is worthy of awards consideration. In partnership with HBO Max, for this edition we look at how writing, directing, and editing was employed to maintain “Hacks” unique blend of comedy and drama going in its second season.

At the beginning of Season 1, conflict was immediate between Vegas standup legend Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder), the disgraced up-and-coming comedy writer hired to punch up Deborah’s jokes. The different generations forced to work together is the central tension from which the show mines both conflict and comedy. Over the first season it’s revealed to the audience, and eventually to the characters themselves, that Deborah and Ava are two sides of the same comedy coin. Gradually, they form a creative partnership that allows each to (sometimes) see past the other’s faults,...

“It is the invisible art,” admits “Hacks” Emmy-nominated editor Jessica Brunetto in our recent webchat. She continues, “You do not want people to notice the editing. A lot of people don’t even understand what we do. I always find that funny; they think a show is shot and magically ends up on screen.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.

“Hacks” is about legendary comic Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), who is in the twilight of her career. With pressure mounting for her so give up the spotlight, she reluctantly hires young writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) to freshen up her act. Brunetto explains, “’Hacks,’ does have a unique tone. It’s billed as a comedy but the episodes are serialized like a drama. That is a very hard balance to achieve.”

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Brunetto has received her first Emmy nomination for Comedy Single-Camera Picture Editing. It...

An editor’s task of crafting a brand-new comedy is always a daunting one; as they say, timing is everything. (Doing it all within a pandemic is also not a picnic.) But what if you had the luxury of some inside knowledge on the people you would be working with? Jessica Brunetto, celebrating her first Emmy nomination for her work cutting together HBO Max’s sleeper hit “Hacks,” just happened to have worked with at least two of its three creators before she ever took a seat at the editing table.

“I’d been working with [showrunners] Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs on the show ‘Time Traveling Bong’ on Comedy Central,” says Brunetto. “And I had also done the pilot of ‘Awkwafina is Nora from Queens‘ with Lucia, and that was basically when this show came along where I got to work with their partner Jen Statsky. It was almost like a home field advantage,...

I had M. Blash’s The Wait on my predictions list last year. A fitting title for the shot in Oregon, sophomore feature that wrapped production in 2010. Word is, it is clearly finished as footage was shown at the Afm last month. Jena Malone, Chloë Sevigny, Luke Grimes and Devon Gearhart star, while on the tech side we find Cinematographer Kasper Tuxen (3 Backyards), Production Designer Ryan Smith (For Ellen), and Editors Jessica Brunetto (Capitalism: A Love Story), Lance Edmands (director of Bluebird) and Justin Kelly.

Gist: Two sisters decide to keep their deceased mother in their home after being informed that she will come back to life.

Production Co./Producers: Ryan Crisman, Neil Kopp (Meek’s Cutoff) and David Guy Levy

Prediction: Park City at Midnight

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