The team behind the sound mixing of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing at 48th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards at Saturday night’s awards ceremony at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. For the first time, scoring mixers have been included in the awards. Scoring mixer Simon Rhodes, along with production mixer John Midgley and re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman have received the award for Hugo. The other contenders in the category were Hanna (including scoring mixer Andrew Dudman), Moneyball (including scoring mixer Brad Haehnel), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (including scoring mixer Alan Meyerson) and Super 8 (including scoring mixer Dan Wallin).
Four-time Academy Award winner Scott Millan (The Road to Perdition, Gladiator) has been awarded with the CAS Career Achievement Award, which was presented to him by film composer Thomas Newman, who has previously worked Millan several times and is collaborating with him this year on Sam Mendes’ James Bond film Skyfall.
In the Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Movie or Mini-Series category, scoring mixer Chris Fogel has received the award as part of the team for the HBO movie Too Big to Fail, which also includes production mixer James J. Sabat, CAS and re-recording mixers Chris Jenkins & Bob Beemer.
To check out all winners, visit Cinema Audio Society’s website.
