The 60th Cinema Audio Society Awards named Universal’s Oppenheimer the winner of its marquee Live Action Motion Picture category Saturday at its annual ceremony honoring the year’s best in feature film and TV sound mixing.
The victory gives the Christopher Nolan epic about the creator of the atomic bomb a leg up leading into the Oscars; it is nominated in Sound category among its leading 13 overall nominations.
This year’s marquee Cas Live Action Motion Picture category featured sound artisans from two of the five of this year’s Best Sound Oscar nominees in Oppenheimer and Netflix’s Maestro. They were joined in tonight’s race by Warner Bros’ Barbie, Neon’s Ferrari and Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
Last year, Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick won in the category. It went on to repeat the feat at the Oscars.
In addition to Oppenheimer and Maestro,...
The victory gives the Christopher Nolan epic about the creator of the atomic bomb a leg up leading into the Oscars; it is nominated in Sound category among its leading 13 overall nominations.
This year’s marquee Cas Live Action Motion Picture category featured sound artisans from two of the five of this year’s Best Sound Oscar nominees in Oppenheimer and Netflix’s Maestro. They were joined in tonight’s race by Warner Bros’ Barbie, Neon’s Ferrari and Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
Last year, Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick won in the category. It went on to repeat the feat at the Oscars.
In addition to Oppenheimer and Maestro,...
- 3/3/2024
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Last night, two important precursors for specific technical categories gave out their awards, helping to potentially inform how two Oscar fields may end up turning out. The pair of groups are the Cinema Audio Society, which ties into Best Sound Mixing at the Academy Awards, while the Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Guild obviously ties into Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the Oscars. Did these results clear up any races? Well, they gave us some frontrunners, but I don’t think anything is locked up. Not with how this year has gone, at least. That being said, these were the expected outcomes yesterday, so take that into consideration as well. The Cinema Audio Society (or Cas) top prize went to Bohemian Rhapsody, taking the category of Live Action Motion Picture. The animated winner was Isle of Dogs, while the Documentary victor was Free Solo. This sets up Bohemian Rhapsody to...
- 2/17/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
“Bohemian Rhapsody” (live action), “Free Solo” (documentary), and Wes Anderson’s stop-motion “Isle of Dogs” (upsetting the animated “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”) were the top sound-mixing winners at Saturday’s 55th annual Cas Awards (at the InterContinental Hotel).
In terms of the Oscar race, the popular Freddie Mercury biopic, starring Best Actor favorite Rami Malek, strengthened its frontrunning status. The emotional Live Aid concert footage, in particular, benefits from the thunderous IMAX presentation.
Read More: Oscars 2019: Best Sound Mixing Predictions
But “Bohemian Rhapsody” faces tough Oscar competition from “First Man,” “A Star Is Born,” “Roma,” and “Black Panther.” The latter three showcase the continuing versatility of Dolby Atmos.
TV winners included “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”: Vote for Kennedy, Vote for Kennedy; “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace” (Part 1) The Man Who Would Be Vogue; “Mozart in the Jungle”: Domo Arigato; and “Anthony Bourdain”: Parts...
In terms of the Oscar race, the popular Freddie Mercury biopic, starring Best Actor favorite Rami Malek, strengthened its frontrunning status. The emotional Live Aid concert footage, in particular, benefits from the thunderous IMAX presentation.
Read More: Oscars 2019: Best Sound Mixing Predictions
But “Bohemian Rhapsody” faces tough Oscar competition from “First Man,” “A Star Is Born,” “Roma,” and “Black Panther.” The latter three showcase the continuing versatility of Dolby Atmos.
TV winners included “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”: Vote for Kennedy, Vote for Kennedy; “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace” (Part 1) The Man Who Would Be Vogue; “Mozart in the Jungle”: Domo Arigato; and “Anthony Bourdain”: Parts...
- 2/17/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody won the top film honor at the 55th annual Cas Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing. The Queen biopic is also up for the same honor at the Oscars a week from tomorrow. Last year, the society tapped Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk for the top film honor, and it went on to win the Oscar.
The winning Rhapsody team included production mixer – John Casali and re-recording mixers Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and Niv Adiri, Cas. The sound team topped competition Saturday night from fellow Oscar nominees A Star Is Born, Black Panther and First Man along with A Quiet Place.
Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Mozart in the Jungle took the one-hour and half-hour TV honors in the ceremony at the Wilshire Grand Ballroom of the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Other winners included CNN’s Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and...
The winning Rhapsody team included production mixer – John Casali and re-recording mixers Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and Niv Adiri, Cas. The sound team topped competition Saturday night from fellow Oscar nominees A Star Is Born, Black Panther and First Man along with A Quiet Place.
Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Mozart in the Jungle took the one-hour and half-hour TV honors in the ceremony at the Wilshire Grand Ballroom of the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Other winners included CNN’s Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and...
- 2/17/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” won the Cinema Audio Society’s top prize for sound mixing at Saturday night’s 55th annual CAS Awards. The film is Oscar-nominated for sound mixing this year along with “Black Panther,” “First Man,” “Roma” and “A Star Is Born.”
In a surprise over heavy-hitters “Incredibles 2” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs” won the animated prize. “Free Solo” reigned in the documentary field.
TV winners included “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Mozart in the Jungle,” “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” and “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.”
Three-time CAS award-winner Mary Jo Lang received the President’s Award, while Oscar-winning production mixer Lee Orloff was honored with career achievement recognition.
Steven Spielberg received the organization’s Filmmaker Award. Seven of the director’s films have been nominated by the Cinema Audio Society: “Jurassic Park,” “Schindler’s List,” “Saving Private Ryan,...
In a surprise over heavy-hitters “Incredibles 2” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs” won the animated prize. “Free Solo” reigned in the documentary field.
TV winners included “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Mozart in the Jungle,” “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” and “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.”
Three-time CAS award-winner Mary Jo Lang received the President’s Award, while Oscar-winning production mixer Lee Orloff was honored with career achievement recognition.
Steven Spielberg received the organization’s Filmmaker Award. Seven of the director’s films have been nominated by the Cinema Audio Society: “Jurassic Park,” “Schindler’s List,” “Saving Private Ryan,...
- 2/17/2019
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Variety Film + TV
The 2016 edition of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival made for just as shining a monument to youth culture as those of previous years – holding the gaze of revelers long enough to distract them from what unsightly affairs took place behind the scenes.
World-class production values and high-profile appearances both on and offstage transformed the Empire Polo Club grounds into a fantasy world for nearly 100,000 daily attendees over the two weekends that Goldenvoice’s flagship festival took place. While far fewer individuals bore witness to what transpired at some of the festival’s peripheral campgrounds, the incidents made for a spectacle all their own for entirely different reasons.
Back in March, We Got This Covered exposed the questionable business practices of SFX Entertainment board member Andrew Bazos, M.D. during the launch of his event medicine company, CrowdRX. Event security is another less-glorified aspect of a festival’s logistics typically outsourced by festival organizers.
In particular, however, a man named Chris Munoz enlisted to work the second weekend of Coachella by such a staffer contacted us with stories of how he and others were lied to and mistreated over the course of their short-lived employment.
Pictured above (left to right): Pasquale Rotella, Pat Christensen, Cory Meredith.
Aside from Goldenvoice’s own in-house security team, each year Coachella’s crowd management is overseen by Staff Pro, a company that subcontracts smaller security staffing companies. “I was the owner of the company and I sold it two years ago but nothing has changed,” says Staff Pro President Cory Meredith. “The parent company was a huge, huge, huge security company, and they made me a loan.”
Merideth’s relationship with Goldenvoice dates back several decades. “I go back to when the three partners in the ‘80s started Long Beach. (Laughs) This is back in the punk days. Sender’s Ballroom in Long Beach. Now that was when they slam danced one-on-one before they moshed.”
Munoz got involved with a Staff Pro subcontractor called Securacorp shortly after coming across the following post in the Facebook group So Cal Rave Fam:
Munoz recounts that he initially reached out to Austin Burke, who made the post on behalf of another subcontractor similar to Securacorp called International Event Specialists. However, he had better luck connecting with Securacorp themselves when a friend forwarded him a help wanted ad posted via the Instagram account that previously went by the screen name ROUG3_SHADOWS:
After direct messaging the account, Munoz received a reply from somebody named Marcos Salazar who claimed to be one of Securacorp’s employees inviting him to discuss the opportunity further.
Salazar extended Munoz a job offer to work security for the second weekend of the festival, which took place from April 22nd-24th. He told Munoz that it wasn’t a problem that he didn’t have his own mode of transportation because the company would bring him to the festival grounds via Greyhound bus and cover his basic necessities while he stayed on one of Empire Polo Club’s campgrounds.
According to Munoz, Salazar assured him that tents and sleeping bags would be provided, and that he would be compensated for his work two weeks afterwards. He also remembers Salazar telling him, “You’re gonna get paid to play,” and that during his time off the clock he would be allowed to venture out into the festival grounds to experience Coachella alongside the paying attendees.
However, inconsistencies between what was promised and what was delivered would foreshadow the endeavor from the very beginning. Munoz explained:
“[Salazar] told me, ‘You gotta be in front of the Staples Center at 7:00 Am or else the bus will leave.’ I went the next day, and the bus was late – that was one thing. We waited like an hour there. And right then is when I met Ron.”
Ron Hill was a Securacorp employee whom Salazar introduced to Munoz and the other employees as one of their supervisors.
“He said that If anybody acted up or broke any rules they’ll get sent home on the bus, and that he was going to step off the bus and leave Ron in charge – so if anybody disrespected him there would be consequences,” Munoz said.
The bus took the group to a campsite just within the confines of the greater Empire Polo Club but far from the festival grounds themselves. After stepping off the bus, Munoz and the others could hardly believe the scene that stretched out before their very eyes.
World-class production values and high-profile appearances both on and offstage transformed the Empire Polo Club grounds into a fantasy world for nearly 100,000 daily attendees over the two weekends that Goldenvoice’s flagship festival took place. While far fewer individuals bore witness to what transpired at some of the festival’s peripheral campgrounds, the incidents made for a spectacle all their own for entirely different reasons.
Back in March, We Got This Covered exposed the questionable business practices of SFX Entertainment board member Andrew Bazos, M.D. during the launch of his event medicine company, CrowdRX. Event security is another less-glorified aspect of a festival’s logistics typically outsourced by festival organizers.
In particular, however, a man named Chris Munoz enlisted to work the second weekend of Coachella by such a staffer contacted us with stories of how he and others were lied to and mistreated over the course of their short-lived employment.
Pictured above (left to right): Pasquale Rotella, Pat Christensen, Cory Meredith.
Aside from Goldenvoice’s own in-house security team, each year Coachella’s crowd management is overseen by Staff Pro, a company that subcontracts smaller security staffing companies. “I was the owner of the company and I sold it two years ago but nothing has changed,” says Staff Pro President Cory Meredith. “The parent company was a huge, huge, huge security company, and they made me a loan.”
Merideth’s relationship with Goldenvoice dates back several decades. “I go back to when the three partners in the ‘80s started Long Beach. (Laughs) This is back in the punk days. Sender’s Ballroom in Long Beach. Now that was when they slam danced one-on-one before they moshed.”
Munoz got involved with a Staff Pro subcontractor called Securacorp shortly after coming across the following post in the Facebook group So Cal Rave Fam:
Munoz recounts that he initially reached out to Austin Burke, who made the post on behalf of another subcontractor similar to Securacorp called International Event Specialists. However, he had better luck connecting with Securacorp themselves when a friend forwarded him a help wanted ad posted via the Instagram account that previously went by the screen name ROUG3_SHADOWS:
After direct messaging the account, Munoz received a reply from somebody named Marcos Salazar who claimed to be one of Securacorp’s employees inviting him to discuss the opportunity further.
Salazar extended Munoz a job offer to work security for the second weekend of the festival, which took place from April 22nd-24th. He told Munoz that it wasn’t a problem that he didn’t have his own mode of transportation because the company would bring him to the festival grounds via Greyhound bus and cover his basic necessities while he stayed on one of Empire Polo Club’s campgrounds.
According to Munoz, Salazar assured him that tents and sleeping bags would be provided, and that he would be compensated for his work two weeks afterwards. He also remembers Salazar telling him, “You’re gonna get paid to play,” and that during his time off the clock he would be allowed to venture out into the festival grounds to experience Coachella alongside the paying attendees.
However, inconsistencies between what was promised and what was delivered would foreshadow the endeavor from the very beginning. Munoz explained:
“[Salazar] told me, ‘You gotta be in front of the Staples Center at 7:00 Am or else the bus will leave.’ I went the next day, and the bus was late – that was one thing. We waited like an hour there. And right then is when I met Ron.”
Ron Hill was a Securacorp employee whom Salazar introduced to Munoz and the other employees as one of their supervisors.
“He said that If anybody acted up or broke any rules they’ll get sent home on the bus, and that he was going to step off the bus and leave Ron in charge – so if anybody disrespected him there would be consequences,” Munoz said.
The bus took the group to a campsite just within the confines of the greater Empire Polo Club but far from the festival grounds themselves. After stepping off the bus, Munoz and the others could hardly believe the scene that stretched out before their very eyes.
- 6/14/2016
- by John Cameron
- We Got This Covered
Twelve years ago, HBO put to screen a miniseries that was one part Television event, one part historical drama, which had the considerable backing of executive producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks and the hype of being something of a spiritual successor to their highly acclaimed war film Saving Private Ryan. Through ten one hour long episodes, essentially using TV as a medium to explore a vast and epic journey through the Second World War that would simply be impossible to map on the big screen, and with Stephen E Ambrose’s critically acclaimed non-fiction book as source material and a huge cast representing a collective of real world heroes, one of the most ambitious storytelling exercises the small screen has ever mounted was brought to life. The result was much fanfare, both critically and among the masses, a recurring trope that continues to this day, and the fledgling start...
- 3/3/2013
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
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