The team of Thomas Varga, Jon Taylor, CAS, Frank A. Montaño, Gustavo Borner, Jason Oliver and John Sanacore, CAS. won the Cinema Audio Society Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing in a Live-Action Feature Film for their work on Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). The honor was bestowed last night during the 51st CAS Awards ceremony at the Crystal Ballroom of the Los Angeles Millennium Biltmore Hotel.
Top honors for Motion Picture-Animation went to Big Hero 6 and the sound mixing team of Gabriel Guy, CAS , David Fluhr, CAS, Alan Meyerson, CAS and Mary Jo Lang, CAS.
The CAS Awards also celebrated the professional contributions of production sound mixer David Macmillan, CAS by honoring him with the CAS Career Achievement Award. A three-time Academy Award winner for The Right Stuff, Speed and Apollo 13, Macmillan was feted by previous CAS Career Achievement honoree Scott Millan, CAS along with Steve Bowerman, CAS and David Krischner.
Among other highlights, the Oscar-nominated director of Boyhood, Richard Linklater, received the CAS Filmmaker Award in a presentation that included remarks by Christopher Nolan, John Pritchett, CAS and Tricia Linklater. Linklater joins an impressive list of previous CAS Filmmakers honorees including: Quentin Tarantino, Gil Cates, Bill Condon, Paul Mazursky, Henry Selick, Taylor Hackford, Rob Marshall, Jonathan Demme and Edward Zwick.
The sound mixing team of Sherlock: His Last Vow took top honors for Television Movie or Mini-Series. Television-One Hour honors went to Game of Thrones, while Modern Family won the award for Television Series-Half Hour. Foo Fighters Sonic Highways won for Television Non-Fiction, Variety or Music Series or Specials.
Danny Maurer a student at University of Colorado Denver was awarded the CAS Student Recognition Award and presented with a check for $2,500.
The CAS Technical Achievement Awards were presented to Sound Devices Dante and MADI Audio Recorder model 970 for production, and iZotope RX4-Advanced for postproduction.
Here’s a rundown of this year’s CAS Award winners:
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
MOTION PICTURE – LIVE ACTION
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Production Mixer — Thomas Varga
Re-recording Mixer — Jon Taylor, CAS
Re-recording Mixer — Frank A. Montaño
Scoring Mixer — Gustavo Borner
ADR Mixer — Jason Oliver
Foley Mixer – John Sanacore, CAS
MOTION PICTURE—ANIMATED
Big Hero 6
Original Dialogue Mixer — Gabriel Guy, CAS
Re-recording Mixer — David E. Fluhr, CAS
Re-recording Mixer — Gabriel Guy, CAS
Scoring Mixer — Alan Meyerson, CAS
Foley Mixer — Mary Jo Lang, CAS
TELEVISION MOVIE or MINI-SERIES
Sherlock: His Last Vow
Production Mixer — John Mooney
Re-recording Mixer — Howard Bargroff
Scoring Mixer — Nick Wollage
ADR Mixer – Peter Gleaves
Foley Mixer — William Everett
TELEVISION SERIES – 1 HOUR
Game of Thrones: "The Children"
Production Mixer — Ronan Hill, CAS
Production Mixer — Richard Dyer, CAS
Re-recording Mixer — Onnalee Blank, CAS
Re-recording Mixer — Mathew Waters, CAS
Foley Mixer — Brett Voss, CAS
TELEVISION SERIES – 1/2 HOUR
Modern Family: "Australia"
Production Mixer — Stephen A. Tibbo, CAS
Re-recording Mixer — Dean Okrand, CAS
Re-recording Mixer — Brian Harman, CAS
TELEVISION NON-FICTION, VARIETY or MUSIC SERIES or SPECIALS
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways: Los Angeles
Re-Recording Mixer – Eddie Kim
Re-Recording Mixer – Jeff Fuller
CAS TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
PRODUCTION
Sound Devices – Dante and MADI Audio Recorder model 970
POSTPRODUCTION
iZotope – RX4-Advanced
