The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) will honor three-time Academy Award-winning supervising sound editor and sound designer Richard King with its 2016 MPSE Career Achievement Award.
King won Oscars for Best Achievement in Sound Editing for Inception (2011), The Dark Knight (2009) and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004), and has two additional nominations (Interstellar, War of the Worlds). He has collaborated with such directors as Nicolas Roeg, M. Night Shyamalan, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, William Friedkin, Peter Weir, Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan. His most recent project is Suicide Squad.
“Richard has enriched some of the best and most successful films of recent decades with soundtracks noteworthy for their imaginative design and spotless execution,” said MPSE President Frank Morrone. “We are very pleased to honor his creativity, dedication to elevating the craft of sound.” The Career Achievement Award will be presented as part of the MPSE Golden Reel Awards, February 27th, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles.
The MPSE Career Achievement Award recognizes sound artists who have distinguished themselves by meritorious works as both an individual and fellow contributor to the art of sound for feature film and television, and for setting an example of excellence for others to follow. King joins a distinguished list of sound pioneers, including 2015 Career Achievement Recipient Skip Lievsay, Randy Thom, Larry Singer, Walter Murch and George Watters II.
“I’m humbled and thrilled to be honored by my colleagues in the MPSE,” said King. “From the first moment I had the experience of working with sound, I loved it. It clicked for me and it still engrosses me. What more could you ask for in a career?”
King began his career as an assistant editor in New York. He quickly gravitated to sound and earned his first credit as supervising sound editor in 1983 on Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold. Other notable credits include Thor, The Dark Knight Rises, The Way Back, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Prestige, Unbreakable and Magnolia. Along with his Oscars, he has won two BAFTA Awards (with one additional nomination) and four MPSE Golden Reel Awards (with 10 additional nominations). He has been associated with Warner Bros. Sound for the past 15 years.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads โ essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More