AICP Post Awards announces 2019 winners
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Editor Jim Helton of Final Cut wins Best in Show for The New York Times campaign awards are presented a range of post production categories.
Editor Jim Helton of Final Cut won the Best in Show at the AICP Post Awards gala celebration held at Navy Pier in Chicago.
Helton took the honor for his moving, dynamic editorial approach to a campaign for The New York Times. Consisting of three spots – Perseverance, Rigor and Resolve – the work also won Helton honors in the Editorial: National Campaign and Best of East categories.
The wins made Helton the single-most awarded artist at the annual awards competition, formerly known as the AICE Awards, which honors excellence in a range of post production crafts including editing, color grading, audio mixing, sound design, visual effects, CGI and animation and design.
To view all the winners of the 2019 Awards, visit the newly launched awards site at www.aicppostawards.com
The second-most awarded artist of the night was Colorist Tom Poole of Company 3. He took home two AICP Post Awards, winning in the categories of Color Grading: Lengths :90 & Above for National Lottery, Amazing Starts Here, and Color Grading: Music Video for The Carters, APE***T.
A number of companies were represented with multiple awards presented to their artists. In addition to Final Cut and Company 3, this list also includes Arcade Edit, which saw editor Paul Martinez winning in Editorial: Dialogue for EA Madden ’19 and Editor Graham Chisholm winning in Editorial: Montage for Gymnastics Canada; BIG SKY EDIT, which saw Editor Chris Franklin winning in Editorial: Monologue / Spoken Word for Nationwide and Editor Ben Jones winning in the new category of Vertical Video for Heineken; and Cut+Run, which saw Editor Stacey Peterson winning in Editorial: Docu-Style for Gillette and Editor James Rose winning in Editorial: Fashion / Beauty for H&M.
The event included the induction of the late Bob Carr into the AICP Post Hall of Fame. Carr, who passed away in September of 2018, was one of Chicago’s leading editorial talents, having spent almost two decades at Optimus before co-founding his own company, NuWorld. A noted industry leader and mentor, his induction video was introduced by Optimus Founder and Editor Jimmy Smyth (a 2004 Hall of Fame inductee). The award was accepted on his behalf by members of the Carr family.
Also saluted at the event were the three winners of the Lev Awards, the Grand Prizes in Editorial, Audio and Graphic Design at the 2018 Camp Kuleshov trailer competition for assistants. They were, respectively, George Irizarry of Cosmo Street, Tom Morris of Heard City and Andrew Becker of Flavor.
Leading the list of ad agencies most often credited with wining work was Droga5, responsible for six of the entries that won in various categories, followed by Wieden+Kennedy, Ogilvy and adam&eveDDB, which each worked on projects that won two Post Awards.
