Ted Gagliano to be Honored with the
Hollywood Post Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award
July 14, 2010
Source: Hollywood Post Alliance
The Hollywood Post
Alliance Awards Committee has announced that Ted Gagliano,
President of 20th Century Fox Feature Post Production, will
receive the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award
at the HPA Awards in November 2010.
The Lifetime Achievement Award pays tribute to well-respected
individuals who have made a significant contribution to the
post production industry.
Gagliano has been at Fox since 1991 and was named President
of Post Production in 2001. At Fox, his responsibilities include
oversight of the completion of all films from 20th Century
Fox’s five film divisions: Fox Main Division, Fox 2000,
Fox Searchlight, Fox Animation, and Fox Walden. Currently,
20th Century Fox has over 25 films in production and post
production.
Recently, Ted oversaw the complex post production of the groundbreaking
film “Avatar,” James Cameron’s 3D blockbuster
that broke, changed, and reinvented the rules of filmmaking.
More than 100 different delivery versions of "Avatar"
- an unprecedented number - were created for the December
18th day-and-date release in 102 countries.
There were 18 different versions of "Avatar" created
for the domestic market, plus an additional 92 for international
markets, which were released in 47 languages. The international
versions included more than 52 subtitled and 18 dubbed versions
on film, 58 subtitled and 36 dubbed versions in digital 3D,
nine subtitled and eight dubbed versions in digital 2D, and
23 subtitled and 15 dubbed versions for IMAX, all optimized
for different screens sizes.
In the same way the accomplishments associated
with the successful completion of “Avatar” are revolutionary
and significant in the discipline of post production. The
post production process had to manage developments from physical
production, the evolving 3D and visual effects pipeline, and
tactically execute one of, if not the most ambitious delivery
requirements in the history of cinema.
Leon Silverman, President of HPA commented, “Ted Gagliano’s
contributions to post production reflect his significant leadership
skills during a career in which our industry has undergone
profound creative, technological, and business change.
" Ted’s personal style, his eager embrace of new
tools and methods and his ability to navigate both within
the studio and creative community have earned him deep respect
and trust from some of our industry’s most influential
filmmakers and executives. While Ted has attained a level
of professional stature that has come through years of hard
work and significant accomplishment, he has always stayed
close to the post community who is so proud to be honoring
him with this award.”
Gagliano, a Comparative Literature graduate of Princeton University
began his professional career at Paramount Pictures, NY, where
he was the 3D technical coordinator for “Friday the 13th
Part III.”
In 1981, he moved to Los Angeles, where he was named Manager
Film Library Services. In that role, he supervised restoration,
mastering and versioning of Paramount’s famed film library.
In 1986, he moved over to the feature and television post
production department.
Over the course of his career, Ted
has overseen post production on such diverse films as “Independence
Day,” “Titanic,” “Moulin Rouge,”
“Master & Commander,” “Walk the Line,”
and both the X-Men and Ice Age franchises. He has a particular
fondness for his role in supervising the film restoration
for the Special Edition of the original “Star Wars”
trilogy.
In addition to his work as a movie studio executive, Gagliano
has produced a number of theatrical plays, music videos, and
original songs.
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