Sound designer Ben Burtt began his career in 1975, and his innovations were quickly recognized by the Academy who gave him Special Achievement Awards for Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Burtt went on to win competitive Oscars for his work on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In addition to his long-standing collaborations with Steven...
Cinema Audio Society adds Scoring Mixers to the CAS Awards Mix Los Angeles—The Cinema Audio Society, opened the submissions process on October 17 for the CAS Awards with a big change this year—Scoring Mixers will be added to the mix in three categories: Motion Pictures, Television Movie or Mini-Series and DVD Original Programming. In making this change, CAS President...
SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of “True Grit” from Michael Coleman on Vimeo. True Grit: Outstanding Acheivement in Sound Mixing for Feature Film Boardwalk Empire: Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series Temple Grandin: Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Movie or Mini-Series ...
Sci-fi fans were spoiled in 2009 with half a dozen milestone movies ranging in style from classic psychological mind-twisters (Moon), exhilarating reboots (Star Trek), “revolutions in cinema” (Avatar), prawn pwnage directorial debuts (District 9), and fresh injections of ecological infection (Splinter). After a binge as wicked as that, 2010 feels like we’ve...