The team behind the sound mixing of Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2012 Motion Pictures – Live Action at tonight’s 49th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Scoring mixer Jonathan Allen, along with production mixer Simon Hayes, re-recording mixers Andy Nelson & Mark Paterson, ADR mixer Robert Edwards and foley mixer Pete Smith have received the award for the movie musical starring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried. The other contenders in the category were Lincoln (including scoring mixer Shawn Murphy) and Skyfall (including scoring mixer Simon Rhodes), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (including scoring mixer Peter Cobbin) and Zero Dark Thirty (including scoring mixer Sam Okell). In the the Motion Pictures – Animated category, scoring mixer Andrew Dudman received the award as part of the sound mixing team of Pixar’s Brave. In the Television or Mini-Series category, the sound mixing team of HBO’s Hatfields & McCoys (scored by Javier Navarrete), including scoring mixer Jeffrey A. Vaughn was honored with the award.
To check out all winners, visit Cinema Audio Society’s website.
