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).
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‘Too Big to Fail’ Soundtrack Details
Varese Sarabande has announced the details of the soundtrack release for the HBO movie Too Big to Fail. The album includes the original score by Marcelo Zarvos. The soundtrack will be released on July 12, 2011 and is now available to pre-order on Amazon. Too Big to Fail is directed by Curtis Hanson and stars William Hurt, Paul Giamatti, James Woods, Billy Crudup, Matthew Modine, Tony Shalhoub, Topher Grace, Kathy Baker, Bill Pullman, Michael O’Keefe and Cynthia Nixon. The film about the financial crisis of 2008 and the group of powerbrokers who decided the fate of the world’s economy in a matter of a few weeks premiered last month on HBO.
Marcelo Zarvos Scoring ‘Too Big to Fail’
Marcelo Zarvos is currently finishing up work on the score for the upcoming HBO drama Too Big to Fail. The film directed by Curtis Hanson offers an intimate look at the financial crisis of 2008 and the group of powerbrokers who decided the fate of the world’s economy in a matter of a few weeks. The movie stars William Hurt as President George W. Bush’s Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Paul Giamatti as Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernank, James Woods as Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld and Ed Asner as Warren Buffett. Also starring is Billy Crudup, Matthew Modine, Tony Shalhoub, Topher Grace, Kathy Baker, Bill Pullman, Michael O’Keefe and Cynthia Nixon. Too Big to Fail is based on the book by Andrew Ross Sorkin and adapted for the screen by Peter Gould (Breaking Bad).