The CAS are the Cinema Audio Society, founded in 1964. They began holding their own awards ceremonies in 1994. The reason the CAS don’t call themselves a guild (like the WGA, SAG, DGA, etc) is because the CAS are not a trade union. They exist specifically to “share information with Sound Professionals in the Motion Picture and Television Industry,” and for the past decade they’ve decided to join all the other professions in the film industry to honor their members who specialize in Sound Mixing. The perpetual confusion between Sound Mixing and Sound Editing is not helped much by the names they chose to call what they do. Many people are misled into thinking Sound Editing might mean “editing the sounds together” but nope, that’s what the Sound Mixers do. Sound Editors create and record the individual sounds. Sound Mixers then take each of those sounds and blend them all together into a balanced sound design.
2015 CAS Award winners:
Motion Picture, Live Action: Birdman
Motion Pictures, Animated: Big Hero 6
Television Series, 1 Hour: Game of Thrones, The Children
Television Movie or Mini Series: Sherlock: His Last Vow
Television Series, 1/2-Hour: Modern Family, Australia
Variety/Music/Specials: Foo Fighters Sonic Highways, Los Angeles
Technical Achievement Award, Production: Dante and MADI Audio Recorder model 970
Technical Achievement Award, Post Production: iZotope – RX4-Advance
2014 Student Recognition Award: Danny Maurer, University of Colorado Denver
2015 Filmmaker Award: Richard Linklater
2015 Career Achievement: David Macmillan
