At the 46th Annual CAS Awards, Feb. 27, The Hurt Locker took top honors, receiving the CAS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures.  Accepting the award was production mixer Ray Beckett and re-recording mixer Paul N.J. Ottosson. Back for the third year, KTLA Morning News Entertainment Reporter Sam Rubin, warmed up... »

The Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild held its 57th annual Golden Reel Awards, Feb. 20, at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Aside from a bit of a parking SNAFU, the show went off without a hitch, and considering the sheer number of recipients, the evening went by fairly fast. MPSE president Bobbi... »

In Oscar contender The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the action starts with a bomb squad in Iraq trying to diffuse an IED. The tension never lets up from there. To keep that level of tension must have been difficult for everyone involved, but especially for Oscar-nominated, Emmy-wining sound designer Paul Ottosson.... »

The intensity of drama in Director Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, is framed by the sparse, yet effective score by Oscar contenders Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders. “It has almost a documentary feel to it,” Beltrami offered. “The fear was that putting too much music in it, would take you out of the picture.... »

3D films have taken off and proven to be a real moneymaker for the film industry. In fact, they are generating as much as three times the in-theater attendance as 2D features. During the “golden era” of the early ’50s, projecting 3D involved running film simultaneously through two synchronized projectors. Because film passes through the gate... »

After a screening of The Cove, I was moved and impressed as well as depressed by the experience. »

Every year about this time, the Oscar nominations are made. Music, of all the crafts, is possibly the most subjective category to judge, especially for an award of this magnitude. The daunting task of deciding what is worthy of contention goes to the composers, music editors and music supervisors who are Academy members. “Movies are... »

I haven’t been to a NAB show since they were in Los Angeles, so I was amazed at the scope of the event. I had hoped to cover all the new products that were unveiled at the show, but there were over 458 new products debuted in Vegas! So I decided to focus on... »

This year at Sundance, the festival’s Technology Center showcased the latest and greatest in technology from Hewlett Packard and Avid, along with several filmmakers discussing the benefits of cutting on the Avid— including its Script Sync feature. Sony showed all its latest HD camcorders, including the new PMW-EX1 that records to SxS Pro solid-state cards... »

This annual report from the Sundance Digital Center, at Park City's Main Street Mall, was a little tougher this year. As usual, there wasn't a lot... »