Sound designer/engineer Weston Fonger, whose clients over the years include Coca-Cola, DirecTV, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Colgate and Lexus, has joined music/sound house Yessian which maintains offices in New York, Detroit, L.A., and Hamburg.
Fonger’s spots for Carmax and Hyundai aired during the 2011 Super Bowl. He has also been judging the Sound Design category at this year’s AICP Show.
Fonger studied Communications and Music at UMass Amherst and Music Production and Engineering at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. He began his career in New York at Howard Schwartz Recording (HSRNY) assisting automated dialogue replacement (ADR) sessions on projects like The Simpsons and X-Men: The Last Stand before migrating his way to audioEngine, also in NYC, where he worked as a mixer/sound designer for almost five years for clients such as HBO, Sony, Converse, Revlon and Visa.
Fonger’s longer format work includes animation films for Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton, several TV pilots for comedian Dave Attell, Brian Iglesias’ documentary film Chosin, the feature film Aardvark by director Kitao Sakurai, and a film about R&B artist Maxwell titled Five Days of Black. Fonger also did mix and sound design for Green by Sophia Takal, a 74-minute drama that won awards at this year’s SXSW Festival.
“The Brutalist” and “The Wild Robot” Score Top Honors At Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards
The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) has unveiled the winners of the 6th Annual SCL Awardsยฎ held on Wednesday evening (2/12) at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Top honors for film scoring went to Oscar-nominated composers Kris Bowers, who won Original Score For A Studio Film for The Wild Robot, and Daniel Blumberg, winner of Outstanding Original Score For an Independent Film on the strength of The Brutalist.
Oscar, Golden Globe, and Grammy-winning composer Atticus Ross took home two awards. He received Outstanding Original Song For a Comedy Or Musical Visual Media Production for โCompress/Repress,โ co-written for the film Challengers with frequent collaborator Trent Reznor, along with Luca Guadagnino. Ross and collaborators Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba also won Outstanding Original Song For A Television Production for the series Shลgun.
Another SCL Award for songwriting went to Diane Warren who won Outstanding Original Song For A Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production for her song โThe Journeyโ from The Six Triple Eight. Warren is a 16-time Oscar nominee and three-time SCL Award winner--the two previous honors recognizing โApplauseโ from Tell It Like a Woman in 2023 and the SCLโs special Ambassador Award in 2016.
The SCLโs 2025 Spirit of Collaboration Award honored composer Harry Gregson-Williams and legendary director Ridley Scott, who have collaborated on seven films including Gladiator II, The Martian, and Kingdom of Heaven. Last year, Martin Scorsese accepted the Spirit of Collaboration Award for his work with the late composer Robbie Robertson. Other past award recipients include Thomas Newman and Sam Mendes, Terence... Read More