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 CAS Career Achievement Award will be presented to re-recording mixer/sound designer Randy Thom, director of sound design at Skywalker Sound and the CAS Filmmaker Award will be presented to multi-faceted stop-motion filmmaker Henry Selick.

The Nominees for 2009:

Motion Pictures

Avatar
Re-recording Mixers: Chris Boyes, Gary Summers and Andy Nelson
Production Mixer: Tony Johnson, CAS

District 9
Re-recording Mixers: Michael Hedges and Gilbert Lake
Production Mixer: Ken Saville

The Hurt Locker
Re-recording Mixers: Paul N.J. Ottosson
Production Mixer: Ray Beckett

Star Trek
Re-recording Mixers: Andy Nelson and Anna Behlmer
Production Mixer: Peter J. Devlin, CAS

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Re-recording Mixers: Greg P. Russell, CAS and Gary Summers
Production Mixer: Geoffrey Patterson, CAS

Television Movies and Mini-Series:

Broken-House MD
Re-recording Mixer: Richard Weingart, CAS and Gerry Lentz, CAS
Production Mixer: Von Varga

Endgame
Re-recording Mixers: Mark Paterson and Jamie Roden
Production Mixer: Chris Ashworth

Grey Gardens
Re-recording Mixer: Rick Ash
Production Mixer: Henry Enbry

Into the Storm
Re-recording Mixers: Brendan Nicholson
Production Mixer: Martin Trevis, CAS

Taking Chance
Re-recording Mixers: Rick Ash
Production Mixer: TJ O’Mara

Television Series:

24, “10PM to 11PM”
Re-recording Mixers: Michael G. Olman, CAS and Kenneth Kobett, CAS
Production Mixer: William F. Gocke, CAS

Battlestar Gallactica, “Daybreak, Part 2”
Re-recording Mixers: Michael G. Olman, CAS and Kenneth Kobett, CAS
Production Mixer: Rick Bal, CAS

Desperate Housewives, “Boom Crunch”
Re-recording Mixers: Michael G. Olman, CAS and Kenneth Kobett, CAS
Production Mixer: Agamemnon Andriannos, CAS

Glee, “Wheels”
Re-recording Mixers: Joseph H. Earle Jr., CAS and Doug Andham
Production Mixer: Phillip W. Palmer, CAS

Mad Men, “Guy Walks Into and Advertising Agency”
Re-recording Mixers: Ken Teaney, CAS and Todd Orr
Production Mixer: Peter Bently

Television – Non-Fiction, Variety or Music – Series or Specials:

Deadliest Catch, “Stay Focused or Die”
Re-recording Mixer: Bob Bronow, CAS

The National Parks, “Episode 1 – The Scripture of Nature”
Re-recording Mixer: Dominick Tavella, CAS
ADR Mixer: Lou Verrico

Nova, “Extreme Ice”
Re-recording Mixer: Paul James Zahnley, CAS
Production Mixer: David Ruddick, Jeff Orlowski and Chris Strollo, CAS

The Metropolitan Opera Opening Night Gala Starring Renee Fleming
Re-recording Mixer: Ken Hahn, CAS
Music Mixer: Jay Saks
Production Mixer: Jorge Silva

Woodstock: Now and Then
Re-recording Mixer: Ken Hahn, CAS
Production Mixers: Jonathan Chiles, William Tzouris and Ryan Carroll

DVD Original Programming:

Battlestar Galactica’s The Plan
Re-recording Mixers: Michael G. Olman, CAS and Kenneth Kobett, CAS
Production Mixer: Rick Bal, CAS

Caprica
Re-recording Mixers: Michael G. Olman, CAS and Kenneth Kobett, CAS
Production Mixer: Rick Bal, CAS

Family Guy, “Something, Something, Something Dark Side”
Re-recording Mixer: James Fitzpatrick, CAS
Production Mixer: Patrick Clark

Into the Blue: The Reef
Re-recording Mixers: Terry O’Bright, CAS and Keith A. Rogers, CAS
Production Mixer: Joel Catalan

Monsters vs. Aliens, “Bob’s Big Break”
Re-recording Mixers: Gary D. Rogers, CAS and Daniel J. Hiland, CAS

CAS Technical Awards for 2009:

Production

Audio Technica
BP4029 Stereo Shotgun Microphone

Lectrosonics
Octopack: Portable Multicoupler for SR Series Receivers

Professional Sound Corp
Solice Audio Mixer

Zaxcom
TRX992 Digital Recording Wireless Boom Transceiver

Zaxcom
ZaxNet 2.4GHz RF network of remote control signals, timecode, IFB audio and metadata

Postproduction:

Audio Ease
SpeakerPhone 2: Speaker emulator

Euphonix
Artist Series MC Control: Studio control-mixer interface

Izotope
RX Standalone application designed for audio restoration

DigiDesign
Pro Tools 8

Sound Devices
Wave Agent File Librarian