Five finalists from schools in the U.S., Canada and Portugal have been invited to attend the 58th Annual Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards, where the recipient of the CAS Student Recognition Award will be revealed and receive a check for $5,000.
The CAS Student Recognition Award Finalists are: Lily Adams from the Savannah College of Art and Design; Bernice Chu from the Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning; Lindsay Ellis from Chapman University; Shehryar Khan from Universidad Lusofona; and Karthik Vijaymohan from the Dodg College of Film and Media Arts, Chapman University
After a virtual event in 2021, the 58th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards will return as a live event on March 19, 2022 to the Wilshire Grand Ballroom at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Legendary director and producer Sir Ridley Scott will receive the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award. Also being honored with the CAS Career Achievement Award is previously announced honoree, re-recording sound mixer Paul Massey CAS.
Along with the Student Recognition Award, the 58th CAS Awards will honor sound mixing achievements in seven categories: Motion Pictures, Animated Motion Pictures, Documentary Motion Pictures, TV Movie or Limited Series, TV Series-One Hour, TV Series-Half Hour and TV Non-Fiction, Variety, Music Series or Specials.”
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More