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Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis of Soundelux Receive Oscar Nominations for Drive
Supervising sound editors Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis of Soundelux are among the nominees for best sound editing in the 84th Annual Academy Awards. This is the third Oscar nomination for Bender. He previously won the award, with Per Hallberg, in 1996 for Braveheart. This is the first Oscar nomination for Ennis. Winners... »
MPSE Announces 2012 Golden Reel Nominees
The Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild announced their nominees for the 2012 Golden Reel Awards. The 2012 MPSE Filmmaker Award will be presented to Gale Anne Hurd. The 2012 MPSE Career Achievement Award will be presented to George Watters II. The awards will be held on February 19 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in... »
CAS Announces Awards Nominees
The Cinema Audio Society announced the nominees for the 48th Annual CAS Awards for outstanding achievement in sound mixing for 2011 in four categories. Also included are the nominations for the CAS Technical Awards in both the production and the postproduction categories. »
Contender – Supervising Sound Editor Shannon Mills, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
On any franchise it gets tough to “keep it fresh” when it comes to sound. On the fourth installment of Walt Disney Pictures’ Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, three-time winner and nine-time Golden Reel Nominee, supervising sound editor Shannon Mills puts it like this, “We wanted to come up with a fresh... »
Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes tells an origin story that lays the foundation for the mythology of the first Planet of the Apes film, which takes place 3,000 years in the future. The success of the current film hinges on the believability of the main character, Caesar, a chimpanzee played by a... »
Contender – Composer Ludovic Bource, The Artist
Ludovic Bource began his musical education playing the accordion, branching out later to a multitude of genres including hip hop, world music, and heavy metal in his career as an arranger with various artists. He firmly eschews labels, however, including the one that some might now attach to him after the spectacular success of... »
The Sound and Music of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection video we talk with director Brad Bird, composer Michael Giacchino, supervising ADR editor Gwen Whittle Yates and supervising sound editor Richard Hymns. »
Contenders – Sound Designers Chuck Michael and John Larsen, Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Getting real chimp vocalizations was quite a task according to 12-time Golden Reel Nominee Chuck Michael and eight-time Golden Reel nominee John Larsen, supervising sound editors on director Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes from 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. "Right away, places like zoos removed themselves from the equation because... »
Contender – Composer Brian Byrne, Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs is, at the moment, squarely in the bubbling under category at this point in the awards race frenzy. Not as in your face as The Artist or Hugo, those who have seen the film have been impressed by its quiet haunting beauty. One of the stellar elements is definitely Irish composer Brian... »
Composer Rolfe Kent Reunites With Director Jason Reitman for Young Adult
Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominated composer Rolfe Kent (Sideways, Thank You For Smoking, Up in the Air) reunites with Academy Award nominated director Jason Reitman on Young Adult. The Paramount Pictures release, which was penned by Academy Award winning screenwriter Diablo Cody, opens Dec. 16 . »
Director Series
Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s A SeparationJanuary 2012 | By Jack Egan
One of the surprises of this awards season is A Separation, a highly lauded film from Iran that has captivated reviewers and moviegoers and... »
Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes Drive into High Gear
January 2012 | By Jack Egan
Nicolas Windng Refn, director of Drive, doesn’t himself drive. He has failed his driver’s license test eight times. Yet the heralded Danish director came... »