The team behind the sound mixing of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures – Live Action category at last night’s 51st annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Scoring mixer Gustavo Borner, along with production mixer Thomas Varga, re-recording mixers Jon Taylor & Frank A. Montaño, ADR mixer Jason Oliver and foley mixer John Sanacore received the award for the comedy drama starring Michael Keaton and scored by Antonio Sanchez. The other contenders in the category were American Sniper, Guardians of the Galaxy, Interstellar and Unbroken. In the the Motion Pictures – Animated category, scoring mixer Alan Meyerson received the award as part of the sound mixing team of Disney’s Big Hero 6 (scored by Henry Jackman).
Tag: Cinema Audio Society
Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Nominations Announced
The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 51st Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. For the past couple of years, scoring mixers are being recognized alongside production, re-recording, ADR and foley mixers. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Robert Fernandez for American Sniper (feat. music by Clint Eastwood), Gustavo Borner for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman (music by Antonio Sanchez) and Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy (scored by Tyler Bates), Alan Meyerson for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (music by Hans Zimmer) and Jonathan Allen for Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken (music by Alexandre Desplat).
‘Gravity’ Wins Cinema Audio Society Award
The team behind the sound mixing of Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity has won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing in the Motion Pictures – Live Action category at tonight’s 50th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards ceremony at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Scoring mixer Gareth Cousins, along with production mixer Chris Munro, re-recording mixers Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri & Christopher Benstead, ADR mixers Chris Navarro & Thomas J. O’Connell and foley mixer Adam Fil Mendez received the award for the space thriller starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. The other contenders in the category were Captain Phillips (including scoring mixer Al Clay) , Iron Man 3 (including scoring mixer Joel Iwataki) and Lone Survivor (including scoring mixer Satoshi Mark Noguchi).
Cinema Audio Society Awards Nominations Announced
The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 50th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. For the past few years, scoring mixers are being recognized alongside production, re-recording, ADR and foley mixers. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Al Clay for Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips (scored by Henry Jackman), Gareth Cousins for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity (music by Steven Price), Joel Iwataki for Marvel’s Iron Man 3 (scored by Brian Tyler) and Satoshi Mark Noguchi for Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor (music by Explosions in the Sky & Steve Jablonsky). In the Motion Pictures – Animated category, the nominated scoring mixers are Dennis Sands for DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods (scored by Alan Silvestri), Alan Meyerson for Universal’s Despicable Me 2 (music by Heitor Pereira), Casey Stone for Disney’s Frozen (scored by Christophe Beck), David Boucher for Pixar’s Monsters University (music by Randy Newman) and Rupert Coulson for Walking with Dinosaurs (scored by Paul Leonard-Morgan).
CAS Nominations Announced
The Cinema Audio Society has announced the nominees for the 49th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. Since last year, scoring mixers are included in the awards. In the Motion Pictures – Live Action category, the scoring mixers honored include Jonathan Allen for the movie musical Les Miserables, Shawn Murphy for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (scored by John Williams) and Simon Rhodes for the James Bond film Skyfall (scored by Thomas Newman). In the Motion Pictures – Animated category, the nominated scoring mixers are Andrew Dudman for Pixar’s Brave (scored by Patrick Doyle), Dennis Sands for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (music by Danny Elfman), Shawn Murphy for Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (score by John Powell), Peter Cobbin for Dreamworks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians (music by Alexandre Desplat) and Alan Meyerson for Disney’s Wreck-It-Ralph (scored by Henry Jackman).