“The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble take first ever CAS award for Motion Picture-Documentary
John Pritchett, CAS honored with CAS Career Achievement Award
Jon Favreau presented with CAS Filmmaker Award
“The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”, “Game of Thrones”, “Modern Family” and “Grease Live!” score Television Honors
Outstanding Product Awards to Cedar Audio and McDSP
CAS Student Recognition Award to Wenrui “Sam” Fan, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Los Angeles, February 18 – The Cinema Audio Society Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing Motion Picture – Live Action was presented to the sound mixing team of Steven Morrow, CAS, Andy Nelson, CAS, Ai Ling Lee, Nicholai Baxter, David Betancourt, and James Ashwill for “La La Land”. Director Damien Chazelle was on hand to support his winning sound mixing team!
Top honors for Motion Picture – Animated went to “Finding Dory” and the sound mixing team of Doc Kane, CAS, Nathan Nance, Michael Semanick, CAS, Thomas Vicari, CAS andScott Curtis.
This year the first ever CAS Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing Motion Picture – Documentary went to The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble and the team of Dimitre Tisseyre, Dennis Hamlin and Peter Horner.
Held in the Bunker Hill Ballroom of the OMNI Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza with an after party hosted by the Awards Title Sponsor Dolby Laboratories and emceed by comedian/writer/animal activist Elayne Boosler, the 53rd CAS Awards also celebrated the professional contributions of Production Sound Mixer John Pritchett by honoring him with the CAS Career Achievement Award. Pritchett’s award was presented with a flourish by Re-recording mixer Scott Millan, CAS and Jack Black. A special video tribute from Tom Hanks was included in the presentation.
Emmy Award nominated Actor/Writer/Director/Producer Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book, Chef, Cowboys & Aliens, Iron Man, Iron Man 2) received the CAS Filmmaker Award in a presentation that included remarks by Oscar® nominated and Emmy® winner Seth MacFarlane(Family Guy, Sing, Ted, Ted 2),CAS President Mark Ulano and Academy® Award nominated and Emmy® Award winner composer John Debney (Sin City, Iron Man 2). Video-taped congratulations from Stan Lee and Ed Asner rounded out the tribute. Favreau joins an impressive list of previous CAS Filmmakers Honorees including: Jay Roach, Quentin Tarantino, Gil Cates, Bill Condon, Paul Mazursky, Henry Selick, Taylor Hackford, Rob Marshall, Jonathan Demme, Edward Zwick, Richard Linklater and Jay Roach.
The Sound Mixing team of “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” took top honors for Television Movie or Mini-Series. Television-One Hour honors went to “Game of Thrones: Battle of the Bastards”, while “Modern Family: The Storm” won the award for Television Series-Half Hour. “Grease Live!” won for Television Non-Fiction, Variety or Music Series or Specials.
Wenrui “Sam” Fan a student at Chapman University, Orange, CA was awarded the CAS Student Recognition Award and presented with a check for $2500. The CAS Student Recognition Award is enthusiastically supported by both IMAX and Avid Technology.
The CAS Outstanding Product Awards for 2016 were presented to Cedar Audio for their Cedar DNS2 Dialogue Noise Supressor and McDSP for their SA-2 Dialogue processor for Post-Production.
Celebrity presenters for the evening were: Nancy Cartwright (The Simpsons), Robert Forster (Jackie Brown), Janina Gavankar (FOX’s Sleepy Hollow) Clyde Kusatsu (SAG/AFTRA Vice-President, Madame Secretary), Angela Sarafyan (HBO’s Westworld), Rhea Seehorn(AMC Better Call Saul) and Nondumiso Tembe (History Channel’s Six).
The Cinema Audio Society thanks the 53rd CAS Awards Sponsors:
Title Sponsor and After Party Host – Dolby Laboratories, Student Recognition Award Sponsors – Avid and IMAX Platinum Level – NBC Universal Operations, Netflix (Double Platinum), Universal Pictures; Silver Level – Denecke, Focus Features, Fox Studio Production Services, iZotope, Paramount Pictures, Technicolor, Warner Bros. Studio Facilities.
The Cinema Audio Society, a philanthropic, non-profit organization, was formed in 1964 for the purpose of sharing information with Sound Professionals in the Motion Picture and Television Industry.
THE 53rd CAS AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING and OUTSTANDING PRODUCTS FOR 2016
MOTION PICTURE – LIVE ACTION
La La Land
Production Mixer – Steven Morrow, CAS
Re-recording Mixer – Andy Nelson, CAS
Re-recording Mixer – Ai-Ling Lee
Scoring Mixer – Nicholai Baxter
ADR Mixer – David Betancourt
Foley Mixer – James Ashwill
MOTION PICTURE—ANIMATED
Finding Dory
Original Dialogue Mixer – Doc Kane, CAS
Re-recording Mixer – Nathan Nance
Re-recording Mixer – Michael Semanick, CAS
Scoring Mixer – Thomas Vicari, CAS
Foley Mixer – Scott Curtis
MOTION PICTURE—DOCUMENTARY
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble
Production Mixer – Dimitri Tisseyre
Production Mixer – Dennis Hamlin
Re-recording Mixer – Peter Horner
TELEVISION MOVIE or MINI-SERIES
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Production Mixer – John Bauman
Re-recording Mixer –Joe Earle, CAS
Re-recording Mixer – Doug Andham, CAS
ADR Mixer – Judah Getz
Foley Mixer –John Guentner
TELEVISION SERIES – 1 HOUR Game of Thrones: Battle of the Bastards
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: The Storm
Production Mixer – Stephen A. Tibbo, CAS
Re-recording Mixer – Dean Okrand, CAS
Re-recording Mixer – Brian R. Harman, CAS
TELEVISION NON-FICTION, VARIETY or MUSIC SERIES or SPECIALS
Grease Live!
Production Mixer – J. Mark King
Music Mixer – Biff Dawes
Playback and SFX Mixer – Eric Johnston
Protools Playback Music Mixer – Pablo Munguía
OUTSTANDING PRODUCT – PRODUCTION
CEDAR DNS2 Dynamic Noise Suppression Unit
Manufacturer: Cedar Audio
OUTSTANDING PRODUCT – POST
SA-2 Dialog Processor
Manufacturer: McDSP
STUDENT RECOGNITION AWARD
Wenrui “Sam” Fan
Chapman University – Orange, CA
