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The Cinema Audio Society Awards took place on Saturday, honoring Oppenheimer, The Last of Us and The Bear with winning trophies this year.

The sound mixing team behind Oppenheimer took home the award in the live-action competition, beating the teams behind Barbie, Ferrari, Killers of the Flower Moon and Maestro.

Cinema Audio Society, which honors outstanding sound mixing in film and television, also handed out awards in the television categories to The Last of Us for best one-hour series and The Bear for best half-hour series.

In its animated feature competition, Cas awarded the trophy to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Other nominees included the teams behind Elemental, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, The Boy and the Heron and The Super Mario Bros. Movie. As for feature documentaries, 32 Sounds took home the award, beating out American Symphony, Little Richard: I Am Everything, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie and Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.

Hosted by comedian Tom Papa, the 60th Cas Awards for sound mixing were held March 2 at the Beverly Hilton, where Oscar-shortlisted sound contenders “Barbie,” “Ferrari,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” and “Oppenheimer” competed. Ultimately, “Oppenheimer” took home the prize for Motion Pictures — Live Action.

As previously announced, JJ Abrams received the society’s Filmmaker of the Year award and multi award-winning sound mixer Joe Earle was honored with the prestigious Cas Career Achievement Award. In addition, five finalists vied for the Student Recognition Award, with Yushu “Doris” Shen winning.

For animation, the winner was Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Universe,” while “32 Sounds” took home the award for documentary.

Meanwhile, the TV winner for limited series was “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.” The one-hour series winner was “The Last of Us” and half-hour series went to “The Bear.”

Below is the full list of winners (marked in bold) for...

Oscar frontrunner “Oppenheimer” collected another award on Saturday, with its sound team topping the feature competition of the 60th Cinema Audio Society Awards for sound mixing.

The mixing team from “Oppenheimer” includes two-time Oscar-winning production sound mixer Willie D. Burton, who previously won Academy Awards for “Dreamgirls” and “Bird;” rerecording mixer Gary Rizzo, who won Oscars for “Dunkirk” and “Inception;” and rerecording mixer Kevin O’Connell, the 21-time nom who won an Oscar for “Hacksaw Ridge.” The winning team also included scoring mixer Chris Vogel and Foley mixers Tavish Grade, Jack Cucci and Mikel Parraga-Wills.

“Oppenheimer” and Cas feature nominee “Maestro” are nominated for the Oscar in sound, alongside “The Zone of Interest” (which won the BAFTA in sound), “The Creator” and “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1.” In 2021, the Academy combined the Oscars for sound editing and sound mixing into a single award for best sound. A year ago, “Top Gun: Maverick...

The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominations for the 60th annual Cas Awards.

“Barbie,” “Ferrari,” “Oppenheimer” and “Maestro” are among the 2024 nominees for outstanding achievement in sound mixing for motion pictures – live action. Other nominees across film and television include “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “The Last of Us,” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “The Bear” and more.

As previously announced, award-winning sound mixer Joe Earle Cas will be honored with the prestigious Cas Career Achievement Award.

Cas Awards nominees represent the distinctive contributions of sound mixers, honoring outstanding achievements in the specialized craft of sound mixing for both film and TV.

“2023 posed numerous challenges for the industry, yet we remain deeply grateful for the abundance of contenders and truly impressed by the skills and talent displayed by the sound community,” said Cas President, Peter Kurland. “The upcoming awards promise a celebration of our community’s remarkable efforts,...

Oscar-shortlisted sound contenders “Barbie,” “Ferrari,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” and the frontrunning “Oppenheimer” (boasting a massive atomic blast and other creative subatomic and cosmic sounds) were nominated by The Cinema Audio Society (Cas) for sound mixing. The 60th Cas Awards will be held March 2 at the Beverly Hilton.

As previously announced, multi-award-winning sound mixer Joe Earle, will be honored with the prestigious Cas Career Achievement Award. In addition, five finalists are vying for the Student Recognition Award. The winner will be announced at the awards gala. Also, the Cas will announce its newly elected Board of Directors.

Shortlisted films that didn’t make the cut were “The Creator,” “The Killer,” “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” “Napoleon,” and “The Zone of Interest.” However, they still have a shot with the Motion Picture Sound Editors (Mpse) nominations on January 15. The 71st Annual Golden Reel Awards will be held...

Now hear this: The Cinema Audio Society is out with the nominations for its 60th annual Cas Awards, which celebrate excellence in sound mixing for film and TV in seven categories. See the list below.

Vying for the marquee Motion Picture: Live Action statuette are the sound-mixing teams behind the two top-grossing non-toon films of 2023 — Barbie and Oppenheimer — along with Ferrari, Killers of the Flower Moon and Maestro.

In the mix for the animated feature trophy are Elemental, Spider-Man Across the Spider-verse, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, The Boy and the Heron and The Super Mario Bros Movie. The documentary race will feature 32 Sounds, American Symphony, Little Richard: I Am Everything, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie and Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.

Last year, the Cinema Audio Society gave its marquee Motion Picture: Live Action statuette to Top Gun: Maverick, the second-biggest movie of 2022, which went on to win the Best Sound Oscar.

Friday, March 6, was a surreal day. We were putting the finishing touches on the sound mix for our film “We Are As Gods,” a feature documentary about counterculture icon and environmentalist Stewart Brand that was set to premiere at SXSW.

It was the last day of our sound mix at Skywalker Ranch, which marked the end of a three-year journey making this film. We broke for lunch with only hours remaining, but by the time we left the cafe, SXSW had been spiked by the City of Austin over the very real and horrifying concerns over Covid-19, throwing our film and our whole world into a tailspin.

While the cancellation started to feel imminent early in the week when big tech and film studios began pulling out of the festival, it was a gut punch to receive the official news: our film premiere was cancelled.

Being sceptics and filmmakers who cover science,...

It’s no great surprise that an American classic like “Apocalypse Now” would receive an updated version, complete with a new hi-res scan and revised sound mix to take advantage of the latest in theater/home sound technology. But that isn’t the only thing that Francis Ford Coppola did for the 40th anniversary of celebrated look at the Vietnam War.

“Francis could have simply just restored it in 4K, and that’s what we’d release,” said Coppola’s American Zoetrope archivist James Mockoski. “But that was not exciting for him.”

Instead, Mockoski served as restoration supervisor on a year-long archival, technical and creative process that resulted in “Apocalypse Now: Final Cut,” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last evening and will be re-released in theaters and on Blu-ray this August. Here’s what you need to know.

The Actual Final Cut

In 1979, Coppola had taken on so...

The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for its 55th annual Cas Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2018. The awards in seven categories will be presented February 16 at the Wilshire Grand Ballroom of the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. See the full list of nominations below.

Facing off in the Motion Picture – Live Action category are A Quiet Place, A Star Is Born, Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody and First Man. In animated film, Incredibles 2 will be up against Isle of Dogs, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Grinch.

On the television side, episodes of Better Call Saul, Ozark, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Westworld will battle it out in the hourlong series category. In half-hour series, the nominees are Ballers, Barry, Modern Family, Mozart in the Jungle and Silicon Valley.

The sound society’s highest honor, the Cas Career Achievement Award,...

“A Quiet Place,” “Black Panther,” and “First Man” led the sound mixing nominations for the 55th Annual Cas Awards (to be held February 16th at the InterContinental Hotel).

Rounding out the live-action feature nominees were “A Star Is Born” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.” But “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Roma,” and “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” were Mia.

Animation nominees included “Incredibles 2,” “Isle of Dogs,” “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” Golden Globe winner “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” and “The Grinch.”

Documentaries nominated were “Fahrenheit 11/9,” “Free Solo,” “Quincy,” “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead,” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

Nominations For The 55th Cas Awards:

Motion Picture – Live Action

“A Quiet Place”

Production Mixer – Michael Barosky

Re-recording Mixer – Brandon Proctor

Re-recording Mixer – Michael Barry, Cas

Scoring Mixer – Tyson Lozensky

Adr Mixer – Bob Lacivita

Foley Mixer – Peter Persuad, Cas

“A Star Is Born”

Production Mixer – Steven A. Morrow, Cas

Re-recording Mixer – Tom Ozanich...

The Cinema Audio Society has announced nominees for excellence in sound mixing for 2018 films and television series.

In the film categories, music-driven hits “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “A Star Is Born” each scored nominations, though musical “Mary Poppins Returns” was passed over. “Black Panther,” “First Man” and “A Quiet Place” rounded out the live action slate.

With its nomination, “A Star Is Born” maintains its status as the only Oscar season contender that has been nominated by every single guild or industry group.

Animated nominees were “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch,” “Incredibles 2,” “Isle of Dogs,” “Ralph Breaks the Internet” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”

Documentaries nominated included “Fahrenheit 11/9,” “Free Solo,” “Quincy,” “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

In the television categories, “Better Call Saul,” “Ozark,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Westworld” all scored in the one-hour department.

Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” earned the top two sound editing awards Sunday night at the 64th Mpse Golden Reel Awards, while Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” and Disney’s “Moana” took musical and animation honors.

“The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble” and “Warcraft: The Beginning” won for documentary and score.

“Hacksaw Ridge” now becomes the favorite to beat “La La Land” in the Oscar battle.

TV winners included “Westworld” (for both long form and short form FX/Foley), “The Night of” “Part 1 The Beach,” “Penny Dreadful III” “Ebb Tide,” “Stranger Things,” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again,” and “Mozart in the Jungle.”

The Filmmaker and Career Achievement Awards were presented to Guillermo del Toro and Harry Cohen.

64th Mpse Golden Reel Award Highlights:

Best Sound Editing In Feature Film – Dialogue / Adr

Hacksaw Ridge

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As expected, “La La Land” came away with the live-action sound mixing award at Saturday’s 53rd Cinema Audio Society (Cas) Awards. Damien Chazelle’s valentine to Hollywood musicals is now a sure bet to win the Best Sound Mixing Oscar. (Sound Editing is still a race.)

Meanwhile, Pixar’s “Finding Dory” upset Disney’s “Zootopia” for animated feature honors. And HBO’S “The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble” earned the first-ever Cas documentary award.

TV winners included “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” (movie or miniseries), “Game of Thrones,” which grabbed its fourth consecutive award for “Battle of the Bastards” (one-hour), “Modern Family: The Storm” (1/2-hour), and “Grease Live!” (specials),

Oscar-nominated sound engineer John Pritchett (“Road to Perdition,” “Memories of a Geisha”) received the Career Achievement Award and Jon Favreau won the Filmmaker Award for “The Jungle Book’s” innovative sound.

The Cinema Audio Society has announced its nominees for the 53rd Annual Cas Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2016 in seven categories.

On the film side, strong contenders like “La La Land,” “Rogue One” and “Zootopia” picked up nods, while television series like “Game of Thrones,” “blackish” and “Stranger Things” also received nominations. For the first year, the Cas is honoring Documentary films, with nods like “O.J.: Made in America” and “13th” rounding out this inaugural category.

Missing from the film nods are more than a few surprises, including “Deepwater Horizon,” “The Jungle Book” and “Silence.”

“We are blessed this year with a rich portfolio of Cinema Audio art applied. As the creative contributions of sound mixing to modern filmmaking becomes more obvious to the world at large, these productions truly represent the talents of our community,” said Mark Ulano, Cas President, of the announcement.

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Independent artists Kris Bowers, Germaine Franco, Danielle Eva Schwob and Jeremy Turner are among the select few for this summer’s Music and Sound Design Labs held at Skywalker Ranch in northern California.

This is the third year that Skywalker Ranch will host the Music and Sound Design Labs, a joint initiative between the Sundance Institute’s Film Music Program and Feature Film and the Film Music Program and Documentary Film Program.

The Music and Sound Design Labs provide workshops and creative exercises for composers, directors and sound designers to collaborate on the process of designing a soundtrack for film.

“This year’s fellows include an outstanding group of composers whose work will deepen and enrich the experience of the diverse personal stories being told by these fiction and documentary filmmakers,” said Sundance Institute Film Music Program director Peter Golub.

“Skywalker Sound is the perfect space for composers, filmmakers and sound designers to come together to explore...

The independent narrative and documentary directors and composers headed for the Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound's Music and Sound Design Labs have been revealed. The Labs will take place at Skywalker Ranch in northern California. These labs offer a space for composers, directors and sound designers to collaborate on a film soundtrack, in a workshop setting under the guidance of top film composers and film music professionals as Creative Advisors.  The Music and Sound Design Lab for narrative features goes down July 7 through 21, with the Lab for documentaries to follow on July 22 through 30. Creative Advisors this year include composers Jeff Beal, Todd Boekelheide, George S. Clinton, John Frizzell, Harry Gregson-Williams, Laura Karpman, and Anton Sanko; sound designers Chris Barnett, Pete Horner, Dennis Leonard, Tim Nielsen, Gary Rydstrom, Kent Sparling, and Randy Thom; Bmi Vice President, Doreen Ringer Ross; re-recording mixers Erik Foreman, Zach Martin and Brandon...

Colin Trevorrow’s “Jurassic World” is currently breaking all sorts of box office records, including being the fastest film in all of movie history to surpass the $1 billion dollar global gross mark. And one of the most impressive parts of the film is its killer sound design: being able to hear the roar of the Indominus Rex and the shrieks of highly-trained raptors were just as great as being able to see these vicious dinosaur predators brought to life with CGI. Now the SoundWorks Collective has released a new video profiling the film’s Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer, Peter Horner, as well as Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Al Neslon, both from Skywalker Sound, where the sound design for the film was created, recorded, edited and finalized. The video has Nelson remarking how they tried to stay true to the sound of the T-Rex from the original “Jurassic Park...

Read More: Here's the Problem with the Success of 'Jurassic World' Part of the appeal of the "Jurassic Park" films was, and still very much is, the incredible sensory experience induced by the painstakingly crafted sound design and special effects. For "Jurassic World" Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer Pete Horner and Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Al Nelson, doing justice to the aural precedent set by the original films felt like a tall order. Horner and Nelson, however, took the challenge in stride and, as demonstrated by the video at the top of this page, put a great deal of thought into how they would go about honoring the sound design of the original films while adding new layers of sound. In order to construct the sonic realism for the dinosaurs in "Jurassic World," Horner and Nelson collected sounds from all different types of animals, such as large pigs,...

Ioncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. For those keeping tabs on emerging indie talents, you’d find our month’s featured personality listed as the cinematographer on Adam Wingard’s You’re Next, Hannah Fidell’s A Teacher, and Kat Candler’s short, Black Metal, but it’s his “radiant observational piece” smack-dab in a don’t blink or you’ll miss it community in middle America that Andrew Droz Palermo decided would be the subject of his first full length docu feature. Co-signed with cousin Tracy Droz Tragos, the U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary winning Rich Hill will be released by The Orchard distrib folks on August 1st in New York City (check the listings). Here’s our profile on Andrew, and make sure to click on over to his Top Ten Films of All Time...

Ioncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. Following Ryan Coogler (July) and Destin Daniel Cretton (August), this September we’ve added yet another exciting new American indie writer-director voice to our, sorta speak, depth chart. This one made waves with micro-budgeted feature debut at both the Sundance (view our coverage) and SXSW (Chicken & Egg female narrative directing award winner) Film Festivals. Picked up by distrib label Oscilloscope Laboratories, Hannah Fidell’s A Teacher recently hit VOD and will be released theatrically September 6th. Hannah details her early memories associated with cinephilia and how recent masterworks might have influenced her own stylistic choices and as part of our profile, we ask the filmmaker to include their personal top ten. Here’s our profile on Hannah and make sure to check out her current Top Ten Films of All Time list.

The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 49th Annual Cas Awards honoring outstanding achievement in sound mixing for 2012. "Skyfall" and "The Hobbit" were nominated but "The Avengers," "The Dark Knight Rises," and "Django Unchained" were ignored. What? They weren't noisy enough?

The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 49th Annual Cas Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2012.

"The Hobbit," "Les Miserables," "Lincoln," "Skyfall" and "Zero Dark Thirty" made the cut in the motion picture - live action category (though "The Avengers," "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Django Unchained" were snubbed).

Winners of the 49th Annual Cas Awards will be announced on February 16 at La's Millennium Biltmore Hotel. Sound Mixer Chris Newman will be honored with the Cas Career Achievement Award while director Jonathan Demme will be presented with the Cas Filmmaker Award.

Here's the complete list of nominees; for winners/nominees of other award giving bodies,...

Showtime series Homeland swept the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards netting popular awards for Damien Lewis (Best Actor), Claire Danes (Best Actress), and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and Best Drama Series.

The Primetime wins helped Homeland secure its place as the Emmy's surprise hit of 2012. Lewis beat out Emmy favourites Jon Hamm and Bryan Cranston, who himself won the award twice for his role as Walter White in AMC.s Breaking Bad.

HBO.s Game Change tied with Homeland with four awards won, including Jay Roach.s Best Director for a Miniseries and Outstanding Miniseries. Combined with the Creative Arts Emmy wins, Homeland won a collective six awards this Emmy season.

Despite Showtime.s popular wins, HBO came out on top earning six awards in total for their programs nominated. ABC came soon after with five awards with its flagship show Modern Family earning an Outstanding Directing for a...