Title | Music/Sound | Audio Post | Agency | Production | |
1 | Volkswagen GTI, “Hair” | Beacon Street, Venice, Calif. John Nau and Andrew Feltenstein, composers; Brian Chapman, sound designer | Sound Lounge, New York Philip Loeb, Rob Difondi, Rob Sayers, Glenn Landrum, Keith Reynaud, mixers | Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami Bill Meadows, music producer | MJZ, bicoastal Rocky Morton, director |
2 | Cadillac DTS, “Drumline” | HUM Music+Sound Design, Santa Monica Jeff Koz, creative director; Jim Casella, composer; Debbi Landon, executive producer. | Margarita Mix de Santa Monica Jimmy Hite, mixer | Leo Burnett Detroit | HSI Productions, bicoastal Paul Hunter, director |
3 | Dodge Caliber, “Too Tough” | Emoto, Santa Monica Tony Morales, John Adair, composers; Paul Schultz, executive producer. Nomad Editing Company, Santa Monica Francois Blaignan, sound designer | Sound Lounge, New York Tom Jucarone, mixer | BBDO Detroit/New York Loren Parkins, executive music producer | Smuggler, bicoastal Brian Beletic, director |
4 | Juicy Fruit, “Ant” | Stimmung, Santa Monica Cyrus Melchor, composer; Gus Koven, sound designer; Kelly Fuller, executive producer | Hoffman Sound, Chicago Jim Hoffman, mixer | Energy BBDO, Chicago | MJZ, bicoastal Dante Ariola, director |
5 | Burger King, “Buckin’ Chicken” | Beacon Street Studios, Venice John Nau, Andrew Feltenstein, composers; Brian Chapman, sound designer. | POP Sound, Santa Monica Peter Rincon, mixer | Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami Bill Meadows, music producer | Hungry Man, bicoastal Bryan Buckley, director |
6 | Virgin Mobile, “Greatest Adult Music” | Moneybacon, New York Paul Malmstrom, composer (also partner/creative director of agency Mother, New York) | audioEngine, New York, Hillary Kew, mixer | Mother, New York | @radical.media, bicoastal Peter Darley Miller, director |
7 | Gibson Guitars, “Empress” | Aardvark Sound, London Oliver Davis, composer/sound designer | Wave, London Parv Thind, mixer | Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis | Great Guns USA, Venice, Calif. Gurinder Chadha, director |
8 | Volkswagen GTI, “Wrecking Ball” | Wojahn Bros. Music, Santa Monica Roger Wojahn, Scott Wojahn, composers; Marisa Mastroianni Davis, executive producer | Sound Lounge, New York Peter Holcomb, mixer | Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami Bill Meadows, music producer | RSA Films, bicoastal Jonas Akerlund, director |
9 | Nike, “Second Generation” | Elias Arts, bicoastal Jonathan Elias, David Wittman, composers; Dave Gold, creative director; Dayna Turcotte, producer | Sound Lounge, New York Tom Jucarone, mixer | Wieden + Kennedy, New York | Smuggler, bicoastal Brian Beletic, director |
10 | Comcast, “Laugh Riot” | Musikvergnuegen, Hollywood Walter Werzowa, composer/sound designer; John Luker, composer; Pat Weaver, producer | One Union Recording Studios, San Francisco Eben Carr, mixer | Goodby Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco | Smuggler, bicoastal Happy, director |
Karla Sofรญa Gascรณn Could Make Trans History For Role In “Emilia Pรฉrez”
Karla Sofรญa Gascรณn's performance in "Emilia Pรฉrez" as a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirmation surgery to become a woman has brought her global acclaim and set Gascรณn on a path that may make her the first openly transgender actor ever nominated for an Oscar. But on this morning, she's feeling contemplative. "I woke up with such a philosophical streak," Gascรณn says, smiling. "In life, everything can be good or bad. We are a mix of so many things. There are things that make you happy and instead they make you sad, or the other way around." The dichotomies of life are a fitting subject for Jacques Audiard's "Emilia Pรฉrez," a film that puts just about every genre โ musical, crime thriller, melodrama โ into a grandiose mixer, and, by sheer nerve, manages to coalesce into one of the year's most memorable movie experiences. "Emilia Pรฉrez," which began streaming Wednesday on Netflix, is widely expected to be a best picture nominee. At the center of the "Emilia Pรฉrez" phenomenon โ which began with a barn-storming premiere at the Cannes Film Festival โ is Gascรณn who plays both the menacing cartel kingpin Manitas and the woman who emerges after Manitas fakes his own death, Emilia Pรฉrez. Years later, Emilia contacts the lawyer who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldaรฑa) to her reunite with her wife (Selena Gomez) and their children. The wild swings of "Emilia Pรฉrez" โ a movie that has earned comparisons to both "Sicario" and "Mrs. Doubtfire" โ wouldn't be possible without Gascรณn. In Cannes, she and her co-stars shared in the best actress prize, which Gascรณn accepted. "We've been insulted, denigrated, subjected to a lot of violence without even knowing why," Gascรณn said that evening. "I think this is award is so much more... Read More