CAS To Honor Jeffrey S. Wexler with Career Achievement Award
Cinema Audio Society president, Edward L. Moskowitz, CAS, announced that the organization will honor production sound mixer, Jeffrey S. Wexler, CAS, with the Cinema Audio Society’s highest accolade – the CAS Career Achievement Award, to be presented at the 47th CAS Awards on February 19th, 2011 at the Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel,... »
Sound is the Winner at the 46th Annual CAS Awards
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... »
The 57th MPSE Golden Reel Awards
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... »
Contender – Sound Designer/Mixer, Paul Ottosson, The Hurt Locker
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. After... »
Contenders – Composers Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, The Hurt Locker
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.... »
740 Sound Design Expands
740 Sound Design has opened a new audio postproduction facility and added mixing to its sound design services. The expansion enables the company to move into television, digital media and select documentary films in addition to the commercial work it has done for a decade. The facility is also enabling 740, which previously shared... »
MPSE Announces Golden Reel Noms
Nominees for this year’s annual Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards include leading proponents of the art of sound editing, music editing and sound design from around the world. “Our members are editing professionals who want to raise awareness of what a motion-picture soundtrack is capable of doing to support the art of... »
CAS Announces 2009 Sound Mixing Nominees
The Cinema Audio Society announced the nominees for the 46th CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2009 in five categories. The CAS also announced the nominees for the Sixth Annual Technical Awards for production and post-production. The Awards will be presented at on Feb. 27 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. The... »
Contenders – Sound Re-recording Mixers, Greg Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
The mission for the sound team on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was to top the work done on the first Transformers film, nominated for an Oscar in 2007 for best sound mixing. Both films were directed by Michael Bay, known for his spectacular action-and-effects movies. “I’ve been on board with Michael for eight... »
Score and Sound: The Unsung Heroes Behind the Scenes
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... »
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