The winners of the 59th Cinema Audio Society Awards were announced March 4 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Oscar nominees “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “The Batman,” “Elvis,” and “Top Gun: Maverick” were all nominated here as well, with “Top Gun: Maverick” proving the victor.
Other winners included “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” “Better Call Saul,” and “Only Murders in the Building.”
Hosted by comedian Ben Gleib, the evening also included previously announced honorary awards. Alejandro González Iñárritu accepted Cas’ Filmmaker of the Year honor, while five-time Oscar nominee Peter J. Devlin accepted the Career Achievement Award.
See the full list of winners, marked in bold, below.
Motion Pictures: Live Action
Winner “Top Gun: Maverick”
Production Mixer: Mark Weingarten
Re-Recording Mixer: Chris Burdon
Re-Recording Mixer: Mark Taylor
Scoring Mixer: Al Clay
Scoring Mixer: Stephen Lipson
Foley Mixer: Blake Collins Cas
“All Quiet on the Western Front...
Other winners included “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” “Better Call Saul,” and “Only Murders in the Building.”
Hosted by comedian Ben Gleib, the evening also included previously announced honorary awards. Alejandro González Iñárritu accepted Cas’ Filmmaker of the Year honor, while five-time Oscar nominee Peter J. Devlin accepted the Career Achievement Award.
See the full list of winners, marked in bold, below.
Motion Pictures: Live Action
Winner “Top Gun: Maverick”
Production Mixer: Mark Weingarten
Re-Recording Mixer: Chris Burdon
Re-Recording Mixer: Mark Taylor
Scoring Mixer: Al Clay
Scoring Mixer: Stephen Lipson
Foley Mixer: Blake Collins Cas
“All Quiet on the Western Front...
- 3/5/2023
- by Mark Peikert
- Indiewire
“Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Elvis,” “Top Gun: Maverick” and “All Quiet on the Western Front” were among the top nominees for live action film at the 59th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing 2022.
“Obi-Wan Kenobi” and “Prey” found support in the non-theatrical motion picture/limited series category, while “Barry” and “Stranger Things” found support in TV categories.
The Cas had previously announced that Oscar-nominated production sound mixer Peter J. Devlin (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) would receive the Cas Career Achievement Award this year. Alejandro González Iñárritu (“Bardo”) will also be honored as the 2023 Cas Filmmaker of the Year.
The ceremony will take place on Saturday, March 4, 2023, in Los Angeles.
Below, the full list of nominees for the 59th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing 2022.
Motion Pictures: Live Action
All Quiet on the Western Front
Production Mixer: Viktor Prášil
Re-Recording...
“Obi-Wan Kenobi” and “Prey” found support in the non-theatrical motion picture/limited series category, while “Barry” and “Stranger Things” found support in TV categories.
The Cas had previously announced that Oscar-nominated production sound mixer Peter J. Devlin (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) would receive the Cas Career Achievement Award this year. Alejandro González Iñárritu (“Bardo”) will also be honored as the 2023 Cas Filmmaker of the Year.
The ceremony will take place on Saturday, March 4, 2023, in Los Angeles.
Below, the full list of nominees for the 59th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing 2022.
Motion Pictures: Live Action
All Quiet on the Western Front
Production Mixer: Viktor Prášil
Re-Recording...
- 1/10/2023
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
The Cinema Audio Society, whose annual Cas Awards recognizes outstanding work in sound mixing, released it nominations on Tuesday.
In the live-action motion picture category, the society nominated the sound mixing teams on All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Batman, Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick.
In the animated feature competition, the nominees are Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Lightyear, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Turning Red. And in feature docs, the society selected Good Night Oppy; Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song; Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues; Moonage Daydream and The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari.
All five movies nominated in the Cas live-action category along with Pinocchio, which is nominated in Cas’ animated feature category, and Moonage Daydream, nominated in the feature documentary category, are all shortlisted for the Oscar in sound. The sound shortlist is rounded out by Babylon,...
In the live-action motion picture category, the society nominated the sound mixing teams on All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Batman, Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick.
In the animated feature competition, the nominees are Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Lightyear, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Turning Red. And in feature docs, the society selected Good Night Oppy; Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song; Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues; Moonage Daydream and The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari.
All five movies nominated in the Cas live-action category along with Pinocchio, which is nominated in Cas’ animated feature category, and Moonage Daydream, nominated in the feature documentary category, are all shortlisted for the Oscar in sound. The sound shortlist is rounded out by Babylon,...
- 1/10/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hear that? It’s the Cinema Audio Society’s nominations for its 2023 Cas Awards, which celebrate excellence in sound mixing for film and TV. See the list below.
Vying for the marquee Motion Picture: Live Action statuette are the sound-mixing teams behind the two top-grossing films of 2022 — Avatar: The Way of Water, and Top Gun: Maverick — along with All Quiet on the Western Front, Elvis and The Batman.
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In the mix for the toon feature trophy are Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Lightyear, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Turning Red. The documentary race will feature Good Night Oppy, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen,...
Vying for the marquee Motion Picture: Live Action statuette are the sound-mixing teams behind the two top-grossing films of 2022 — Avatar: The Way of Water, and Top Gun: Maverick — along with All Quiet on the Western Front, Elvis and The Batman.
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In the mix for the toon feature trophy are Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Lightyear, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Turning Red. The documentary race will feature Good Night Oppy, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen,...
- 1/10/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy has nine nominations, while Charlotte Wells’ ’Aftersun’ has eight.
Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy The Banshees Of Inisherin has received the most nominations for the 43rd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with nine, including film of the year, director of the year and screenwriter of the year.
McDonagh last triumphed at the 2018 awards, with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri winning three awards: best film, best actress for Frances McDormand and best screenwriter for McDonagh.
Scroll down for the full nominations list
The Banshees Of Inisherin stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, and follows the unravelling...
Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy The Banshees Of Inisherin has received the most nominations for the 43rd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with nine, including film of the year, director of the year and screenwriter of the year.
McDonagh last triumphed at the 2018 awards, with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri winning three awards: best film, best actress for Frances McDormand and best screenwriter for McDonagh.
Scroll down for the full nominations list
The Banshees Of Inisherin stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, and follows the unravelling...
- 12/21/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Sound designer/re-recording mixer Leslie Shatz has used his finely tuned skills to service many movies, from cutting Yoda’s dialogue in “The Empire Strikes Back” to collaborating with Toto on David Lynch’s “Dune.” Yet with “Blonde” (now streaming on Netflix), based on author Joyce Carol Oates’ fictionalized look at Marilyn Monroe’s life and death, he and filmmaker Andrew Dominik reunite a third time to create a striking sonic experience.
“Andrew’s very untraditional in terms of sound,” Shatz says. “He wants sounds to have an emotional context.”
In order to immerse audiences in their heroine’s psychological trials, the team crafts a soundscape that augments the narrative’s thematic resonance. “One of the things we talked about was to keep the sound moving, [to give it] a swirling feeling to keep you in a dreamlike state, or keep you unsettled, with the world constantly moving around you.” Shatz continues, “I...
“Andrew’s very untraditional in terms of sound,” Shatz says. “He wants sounds to have an emotional context.”
In order to immerse audiences in their heroine’s psychological trials, the team crafts a soundscape that augments the narrative’s thematic resonance. “One of the things we talked about was to keep the sound moving, [to give it] a swirling feeling to keep you in a dreamlike state, or keep you unsettled, with the world constantly moving around you.” Shatz continues, “I...
- 9/30/2022
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
The 37th Annual International Documentary Association Awards, streamed online Friday night, capped a big week for nonfiction awards that also included the 15th Annual Cinema Eye Honors, presented live in New York on Wednesday.
Both awards groups honored Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated immigration saga “Flee” (Neon) with their top honors, while the Danish International Feature Oscar contender’s fellow Oscar nominee “Summer of Soul” (Searchlight/Hulu) notched three IDA awards: Rookie filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson won for Best Director, Best Music Documentary, and Best Editing. Oscar nominee Jessica Kingdon’s “Ascension,” an observational look at the class structure in China, won three Cinema Eye Honors awards, the most of the evening, for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Original Score and Debut Feature.
Oscar nominee “Writing with Fire” nabbed the IDA’s Courage Under Fire Award for the India-based directing team Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh.
The IDA online ceremony, which was pre-recorded,...
Both awards groups honored Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated immigration saga “Flee” (Neon) with their top honors, while the Danish International Feature Oscar contender’s fellow Oscar nominee “Summer of Soul” (Searchlight/Hulu) notched three IDA awards: Rookie filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson won for Best Director, Best Music Documentary, and Best Editing. Oscar nominee Jessica Kingdon’s “Ascension,” an observational look at the class structure in China, won three Cinema Eye Honors awards, the most of the evening, for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Original Score and Debut Feature.
Oscar nominee “Writing with Fire” nabbed the IDA’s Courage Under Fire Award for the India-based directing team Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh.
The IDA online ceremony, which was pre-recorded,...
- 3/5/2022
- by Anne Thompson and Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary “Flee” has been named the best nonfiction film of 2021 at the 15th annual Cinema Eye Honors, which were presented on Tuesday night in New York City. “The Rescue,” about the efforts to retrieve a Thai youth soccer team from a flooded cave, won the Audience Choice Prize.
The Neon release “Flee,” which uses animation to give anonymity to a young gay man who escaped Afghanistan as a teenager and made his way to Denmark, also won the award for graphic design and animation. It is nominated for Oscars in the documentary, animated-feature and international-feature categories.
Robert Greene won the directing award for “Procession,” while Matthew Heineman, Jenna Millman and Leslie Norville took the producing prize for “The First Wave.”
Jessica Kingdon’s “Ascension” won the most Cinema Eye awards, three, taking the prizes for debut feature, cinematography and score.
Other winners included “Summer of Soul...
The Neon release “Flee,” which uses animation to give anonymity to a young gay man who escaped Afghanistan as a teenager and made his way to Denmark, also won the award for graphic design and animation. It is nominated for Oscars in the documentary, animated-feature and international-feature categories.
Robert Greene won the directing award for “Procession,” while Matthew Heineman, Jenna Millman and Leslie Norville took the producing prize for “The First Wave.”
Jessica Kingdon’s “Ascension” won the most Cinema Eye awards, three, taking the prizes for debut feature, cinematography and score.
Other winners included “Summer of Soul...
- 3/2/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Sounds like the Cinema Audio Society has its nominees. Dune, No Time to Die, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Power of the Dog and West Side Story will vie for the Live Action Motion Picture prize at the 58th Cas Awards.
The hardware will be doled out during the group’s in-person event on March 19 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.
The toons vying for the Animated Motion Picture award are Encanto, Luca, Raya and the Last Dragon, Sing 2 and The Mitchells vs. the Machines. The Documentary category race will be among Becoming Cousteau, Summer of Soul, The Velvet Underground, Tina and Val.
Four-time Oscar nominee Ridley Scott will receive the group’s Filmmaker Award, and Bohemian Rhapsody Oscar winner and nine-time nominee Paul Massey will receive Cas’ Career Achievement Award.
Here is the full list of nominees for the 2022 Cinema Audio Society Awards.:
Motion Pictures – Live Action...
The hardware will be doled out during the group’s in-person event on March 19 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.
The toons vying for the Animated Motion Picture award are Encanto, Luca, Raya and the Last Dragon, Sing 2 and The Mitchells vs. the Machines. The Documentary category race will be among Becoming Cousteau, Summer of Soul, The Velvet Underground, Tina and Val.
Four-time Oscar nominee Ridley Scott will receive the group’s Filmmaker Award, and Bohemian Rhapsody Oscar winner and nine-time nominee Paul Massey will receive Cas’ Career Achievement Award.
Here is the full list of nominees for the 2022 Cinema Audio Society Awards.:
Motion Pictures – Live Action...
- 1/25/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The Cinema Audio Society (Cas) has announced the nominations for the 58th Annual Cas Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2022, as well as the Outstanding Product Nominations.
Among the films, TV shows and animated features nominated are “West Side Story,” “Dune,” “No Time to Die,” “Mare of Easttown,” “Succession” and “Encanto.”
As previously announced, Paul Massey will receive the Cas Career Achievement Award, and Ridley Scott will receive the Cas Filmmaker Award.
The awards are designed to educate and inform audiences that effective sound is achieved by a creative, artistic and technical blending of diverse sound elements.
“This year’s nominees display incredible skill and craftsmanship,” says Cas President Karol Urban. “We received submissions reflecting a myriad of narrative styles and technical approaches. The ingenuity and storytelling expertise of our sound mixing community is truly spectacular.”
The ceremony will return to an in-person event on March 19 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.
Among the films, TV shows and animated features nominated are “West Side Story,” “Dune,” “No Time to Die,” “Mare of Easttown,” “Succession” and “Encanto.”
As previously announced, Paul Massey will receive the Cas Career Achievement Award, and Ridley Scott will receive the Cas Filmmaker Award.
The awards are designed to educate and inform audiences that effective sound is achieved by a creative, artistic and technical blending of diverse sound elements.
“This year’s nominees display incredible skill and craftsmanship,” says Cas President Karol Urban. “We received submissions reflecting a myriad of narrative styles and technical approaches. The ingenuity and storytelling expertise of our sound mixing community is truly spectacular.”
The ceremony will return to an in-person event on March 19 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.
- 1/25/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
While many might assume that Leslie Shatz got access to incredible master tapes while working as the sound designer for the documentary “The Velvet Underground” that would actually be a big misconception. “We wanted to preserve a feeling and the recordings are distorted and you don’t want to change that either. So the idea is what should I do to make it better without making it better,” he tells us during our recent webchat (watch the video interview above). Part of what helped the sound design come together for the documentary was how he took the music and put it everywhere in the film. “Because it wasn’t stereo, we couldn’t go left or right, but we took the source of the sound and made it come from many speakers at the same time so, in fact, your room becomes the venue.”
“The Velvet Underground,” which is currently...
“The Velvet Underground,” which is currently...
- 12/4/2021
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s singular animated doc Flee and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Summer of Soul will head into the 15th annual Cinema Eye Honors as the leaders in nominations, Cinema Eye announced today.
Flee led all films with seven nominations, with Summer of Soul claiming six. Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension, Jessica Beshir’s Faya Dayi and E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s The Rescue followed with five noms apiece, with Todd Haynes’ Apple pic The Velvet Underground claiming four. HBO led all distributors with 16 nominations, with Hulu notching 12. Nat Geo and Neon followed with 11 each.
Of particular note with regard to the noms list was a newly introduced category for Outstanding Sound Design, which will see All Light, Everywhere contending alongside Faya Dayi, Flee, Summer of Soul and The Velvet Underground.
The award ceremony recognizing...
Flee led all films with seven nominations, with Summer of Soul claiming six. Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension, Jessica Beshir’s Faya Dayi and E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s The Rescue followed with five noms apiece, with Todd Haynes’ Apple pic The Velvet Underground claiming four. HBO led all distributors with 16 nominations, with Hulu notching 12. Nat Geo and Neon followed with 11 each.
Of particular note with regard to the noms list was a newly introduced category for Outstanding Sound Design, which will see All Light, Everywhere contending alongside Faya Dayi, Flee, Summer of Soul and The Velvet Underground.
The award ceremony recognizing...
- 11/10/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
It was perhaps predestined Todd Haynes would one day make a film about the Velvet Underground. Predestined since Velvet Goldmine, at least, which—in a time when this music was still rare, odd, and with an influence that had yet to fully reveal itself—mythologized Lou Reed’s badboy persona in some fantastic constellation of actual music, imagined stand-ins, and tales known by acolytes for years.
One of the tales mythologized in Velvet Goldmine gets struck down in The Velvet Underground, Haynes’ documentary on the New York group who’ve since gone beyond legendary—to a point, maybe, where one wonders what’s left but the classic stories, lines, and songs. As our review gets at what Haynes does so brilliantly, I’ll cut to the chase and open on my interview with him. Whatever the impression of his brilliance—the great reach of his cinephilic, literary, cultural, and formal...
One of the tales mythologized in Velvet Goldmine gets struck down in The Velvet Underground, Haynes’ documentary on the New York group who’ve since gone beyond legendary—to a point, maybe, where one wonders what’s left but the classic stories, lines, and songs. As our review gets at what Haynes does so brilliantly, I’ll cut to the chase and open on my interview with him. Whatever the impression of his brilliance—the great reach of his cinephilic, literary, cultural, and formal...
- 10/11/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The Gotham Film and Media Institute, formerly IFP, is going virtual again with the 2021 Gotham Week Conference, set to run from Sept. 19-24.
Still, public programming for the event will feature panels with a number of notable industry figures, including Zola director Janicza Bravo and editor Joi McMillion, Summer of Soul director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Never Have I Ever showrunner Lang Fisher and directors Nanfu Wang and Kitty Green.
Others set to participate in conversations this year include Lance Oppenheim, Sharon Mashihi, Chris Giliberti, Michael Mohan, Leslie Shatz, Wendy Zukerman, Sarah Adina Smith, Julia Solomonoff and Jake Brennan.
This year’s conference — featuring ...
Still, public programming for the event will feature panels with a number of notable industry figures, including Zola director Janicza Bravo and editor Joi McMillion, Summer of Soul director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Never Have I Ever showrunner Lang Fisher and directors Nanfu Wang and Kitty Green.
Others set to participate in conversations this year include Lance Oppenheim, Sharon Mashihi, Chris Giliberti, Michael Mohan, Leslie Shatz, Wendy Zukerman, Sarah Adina Smith, Julia Solomonoff and Jake Brennan.
This year’s conference — featuring ...
- 8/17/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Gotham Film and Media Institute, formerly IFP, is going virtual again with the 2021 Gotham Week Conference, set to run from Sept. 19-24.
Still, public programming for the event will feature panels with a number of notable industry figures, including Zola director Janicza Bravo and editor Joi McMillion, Summer of Soul director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Never Have I Ever showrunner Lang Fisher and directors Nanfu Wang and Kitty Green.
Others set to participate in conversations this year include Lance Oppenheim, Sharon Mashihi, Chris Giliberti, Michael Mohan, Leslie Shatz, Wendy Zukerman, Sarah Adina Smith, Julia Solomonoff and Jake Brennan.
This year’s conference — featuring ...
Still, public programming for the event will feature panels with a number of notable industry figures, including Zola director Janicza Bravo and editor Joi McMillion, Summer of Soul director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Never Have I Ever showrunner Lang Fisher and directors Nanfu Wang and Kitty Green.
Others set to participate in conversations this year include Lance Oppenheim, Sharon Mashihi, Chris Giliberti, Michael Mohan, Leslie Shatz, Wendy Zukerman, Sarah Adina Smith, Julia Solomonoff and Jake Brennan.
This year’s conference — featuring ...
- 8/17/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Right now, there's a conversational icebreaker, brought to you by the ubiquitous Netflix, that's guaranteed to spark no shortage of intense conversations: "Have you seen "Making a Murderer?" Read More: It's Complicated: How Netflix and Amazon Add a Big Wrinkle to Sundance Deal-Making Filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi have taken a magnifying glass at the story of Steven Avery, and his inescapable quagmire in the justice system -- the 10-hour mammoth viewing experience chronicles, with deliberate precision and pacing, Avery's conviction for murder and his unjust 18-year imprisonment (which is only the beginning of his legal troubles). The series has invaded every nook and cranny of the pop cultural collective, and riding that wave of relevance is A Sound Effect, a sound effects resource and blog. In an interview with "Making a Murderer's" veteran sound designer Leslie Shatz, titled "Behind the Sound For the Shocking 'Making a Murderer,...
- 1/27/2016
- by J. Carlos Menjivar
- Indiewire
While I cannot say the festival has started for me with the searing acuteness found day one in Cannes last year with Timbuktu, with Hirokazu Kore-eda's Our Little Sister the tone of my first full day on the Croisette instead began with the Japanese director's particular sensibility of refined, humane warmth and a complete absence of desire to impress.A wonderful concept centers this picture and called back to me small memories of a Mikio Naruse film I loved long ago, Older Brother, Younger Sister (speaking now of Japanese masters, Our Little Sister also contains a poignant reference to Ozu's The End of Summer). Three single women, not young but also not middle-aged, sisters from their father's first of three marriages, adopt their teenage half-sister after his death strands her between his first and last broken family. So we get a kind of enclave or community of sisterhood, discreet,...
- 5/14/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
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,...
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,...
- 1/8/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Originally published in the Winter 2011 issue. Meek’s Cutoff is nominated for Best Feature.
Before you see the first image of Meek’s Cutoff, you hear the film. Simultaneously swelling is the whoosh of rushing water and Jeff Grace’s unnerving, anxious score, which sounds like strings on guitar played backwards. Imagine a rusty fence gate slowly opening. That’s your invitation to the film.
Then a title card — hand-stitched on what looks like the potato-sack material used to cover a wagon — announces that we’re in Oregon, and the year: 1845.
This happens quickly, in less than 20 seconds, but by the time the first image fades in on a man leading two oxen and a wagon through a river in glorious, colorful 1.37 “Academy” ratio film (a square, not a wide-screen rectangle), there’s already a claustrophobic tension, and you know Meek’s Cutoff won’t be your father or even grandfather’s Western.
Before you see the first image of Meek’s Cutoff, you hear the film. Simultaneously swelling is the whoosh of rushing water and Jeff Grace’s unnerving, anxious score, which sounds like strings on guitar played backwards. Imagine a rusty fence gate slowly opening. That’s your invitation to the film.
Then a title card — hand-stitched on what looks like the potato-sack material used to cover a wagon — announces that we’re in Oregon, and the year: 1845.
This happens quickly, in less than 20 seconds, but by the time the first image fades in on a man leading two oxen and a wagon through a river in glorious, colorful 1.37 “Academy” ratio film (a square, not a wide-screen rectangle), there’s already a claustrophobic tension, and you know Meek’s Cutoff won’t be your father or even grandfather’s Western.
- 11/23/2011
- by James Ponsoldt
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
by Vadim Rizov
Meek's Cutoff is, relatively speaking, director Kelly Reichardt working in maximalist mode. There are multiple easily-recognizable actors, as well as an active score by Jeff Grace (who has mostly worked on indie horror movies like The House of the Devil), enveloping ambient sound (courtesy of Gus Van Sant's regular sound designer Leslie Shatz), and a plot that can be broken down to three acts. Reichardt's two previous features, Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, both clock in at under 80 minutes (the latter has a deliberately slow credits crawl to stretch it out to feature length); Meek's Cutoff is a hearty 104 minutes. Accessibility-wise, all this puts it way ahead of Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and Reichardt's debut River of Grass. The setting (the Oregon Trail!) and time period (1845) are instantly arresting and Different, the level of ambition on every tier overtly higher, an odyssey rather than a sketch.
Meek's Cutoff is, relatively speaking, director Kelly Reichardt working in maximalist mode. There are multiple easily-recognizable actors, as well as an active score by Jeff Grace (who has mostly worked on indie horror movies like The House of the Devil), enveloping ambient sound (courtesy of Gus Van Sant's regular sound designer Leslie Shatz), and a plot that can be broken down to three acts. Reichardt's two previous features, Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, both clock in at under 80 minutes (the latter has a deliberately slow credits crawl to stretch it out to feature length); Meek's Cutoff is a hearty 104 minutes. Accessibility-wise, all this puts it way ahead of Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and Reichardt's debut River of Grass. The setting (the Oregon Trail!) and time period (1845) are instantly arresting and Different, the level of ambition on every tier overtly higher, an odyssey rather than a sketch.
- 4/5/2011
- GreenCine Daily
Sundance Institute has announced the six participants for the seventh annual Sundance Institute Composers Lab, which runs July 20-Aug. 4 in Sundance, Utah. The fellows are: Peter Fitzpatrick, Aiko Fukushima, Joseph Julian Gonzalez, Gary Louris, Raz Mesinai and Michael Torke. During the two-week lab, participants will workshop and do creative exercises under the guidance of film composers and film music professionals. This year, creative advisors include film composers Jeff Beal, Camara Kambon, Rolfe Kent, Thomas Newman and Ed Shearmur. Other advisors are music editor Bill Bernstein, music supervisor/consultant Evyen Klean, music supervisor Tracy McKnight, film music agent Robert Messinger, BMI's Doreen Ringer Ross, sound designer Leslie Shatz and director Mark Water.
- 6/30/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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