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Production Sound Mixer John Pritchett to Receive CAS Career Achievement Award

Cinema Audio Society President Mark Ulano, CAS, announced that the organization will honor multiple CAS and Oscar nominated Sound Mixer John Pritchett, CAS (pictured), with the Cinema Audio Society’s highest accolade, the CAS Career Achievement Award. Pritchett will receive the award at the 53rd CAS Awards on Saturday, February 18, 2017, at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza in the Bunker Hill Ballroom.

 “It’s truly an honor to announce the selection of John Pritchett by the CAS for our Career Achievement award at this year’s 53rd Annual CAS Awards,” Ulano says. “John is the consummate ‘Mixer’s Mixer’ with a widely diverse career in film and television. His collaboration with directors such as Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Richard Linklater and many others on over one hundred projects is a portfolio of excellence and innovation.

“He’s a winner of the prestigious CAS award for his mixing work and is also multi-nominated by his peers at the Academy of Motion Pictures and the British Academy as well, signifying his well-earned reputation for creative excellence.

“John Pritchett is a beloved figure and has generously given back to the sound community for many years as a noted mentor and supporter of many of our best practitioners in the field. I take great pleasure in announcing the CAS’ recognition of John and his terrific body of work.”

Pritchett, who was born in Santa Monica, Calif., was discovered by director Robert Altmanwhile working as a recording engineer in Dallas. Pritchett made seven pictures with Altman, including The PlayerShort Cuts and Kansas City. The CAS reports that Pritchett was the second sound mixer in Hollywood to go digital, beginning with Altman’s Short Cuts in 1993.

Known for his successful working relationships with some of Hollywood’s most creative directors, Pritchett has made four movies with director Lawrence Kasdan, including Wyatt Earp, and French Kiss; four with writer-director David Mamet, including The Spanish Prisoner and State and Main; three with writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson: MagnoliaThere Will Be Blood and Inherent Vice; and two films with Oliver Stone, World Trade Center and W. He was also the sound mixer on such hits as 2006’s The Break-Up, 2000’s Miss Congeniality and 1987’s Dirty Dancing.

Twice nominated for an Academy Award, in 2006 for Memoirs of a Geisha and in 2003 for Road to Perdition, Pritchett was also nominated for a CAS Award for both films and won in 2003. He was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award in 2007 for There Will Be Blood.

Pritchett’s 102nd film, Everybody Wants Some, for director Richard Linklater, continues his reputation for expertise in handling complex technical requirements during production. “People hire me because my team and I are able to get the sound needed with the least disruption,” Pritchett says.

Pritchett joins an illustrious group of past CAS Career Achievement Honorees that includes:Don Rogers, Walter Murch, Les Fresholtz, Tomlinson Holman, Richard Portman, Jim Webb, Charles Wilborn, Gary Rydstrom, Willie Burton, Mike Minkler, Ed Greene, Dennis Sands, Randy Thom, Jeffrey S. Wexler, Scott Millan, Chris Newman, Andy Nelson, David Macmillan and Doc Kane.

The 53rd CAS Awards will honor Outstanding Achievements in Sound Mixing in seven categories: Motion Pictures, Animated Motion Pictures, Documentary Motion Pictures, Television Movies and Mini- Series, Television Series-One Hour, Television Series-Half Hour and Television-Non-Fiction, Variety, Music Series or Specials. The CAS Student Recognition Award will also be presented at these Awards. The CAS Filmmaker Honoree will be announced later in the year.

For more information, visit cinemaaudiosociety.org.

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