48th CAS Award Winners Announced

Hugo took home the most awards of the night. The Sound Mixing team of Production Mixer John Midgley, Re-Recording Mixer Tom Fleischman, CAS and Scoring Mixer Simon Rhodes at the 48th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards. The family adventure won Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture, the evening's top honor. This is Midgley's first CAS Award. He was previously nominated for Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. It is the second CAS Award for Fleischman in this category having previously won for The Aviator. He also won a second consecutive CAS Award for Boardwalk Empire, earlier in the evening. This is Rhodes first CAS Award as this is the first year Scoring Mixers have been included in the Awards.

Held in the Millennium Biltmore Hotel's famed Crystal Ballroom, the program also celebrated the professional contributions of Scott Millan, CAS, with the CAS Career Achievement Award. A four-time Academy Award winner®, Millan has won three CAS Awards, and been nominated eight times. Millan said, "This is a great honor, and I am very proud to be recognized in the company of so many distinguished and talented past recipients." On hand to present his award was previous CAS Career Achievement Award recipient (and two-time Academy Award® winner) Walter Murch, CAS and by ten-time Academy Award® nominated, Grammy® and Emmy® Award-winning composer Thomas Newman. Millan and Newman most recently collaborated on the 23rd James Bond feature Skyfall.

Among other highlights, Academy Award® nominated director Rob Marshall (Chicago), was presented with the CAS Filmmaker Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a non-CAS member. "I am thrilled and honored to be receiving the Filmmaker Award from the CAS," Marshall said when he learned of the honor. "I have been incredibly lucky in my career to have worked with some of the finest artists in the field of sound. They have taught me so much about the creative process and the integral nature of collaboration - which I value so highly." Presenting his award were some of Marshall's most notable colleagues: Academy Award-winner® Penelope Cruz, who starred in Marshall's musical sensation Nine and worldwide box office smash Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; CAS Award and three-time Academy Award® winner Michael Minkler, CAS; Academy Award® winner Lee Orloff, CAS; and CAS Award and six-time Academy Award® nominee Paul Massey, CAS. In the presentation, Cruz praised Marshall . . . "As a director, he's a dream to work with. Loves his actors and gives attention to every detail… is always kind to everyone but doesn't stop until things are perfect. He's honest, tough when he needs to be, and has enormous respect for everyone's work."

In his remarks to the over 400 attendees CAS President David E. Fluhr spoke of the legacy of sound. "The future is built on the actions of today, and the achievements of yesterday. Throughout the last year, sound mixers everywhere have elevated our craft".

Other winners this evening included:
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Movie or Mini-Series:
TO BIG TO FAIL and the Sound Mixing Team of Production Mixer James J. Sabat, CAS and Re-recording Mixers Chris Jenkins, Bob Beemer, CAS and Scoring Mixer Chris Fogel. This is Sabat's second CAS Award win. He previously won for Angels in America. This is Jenkins first CAS Award in this category. He received a CAS President's Award in 2004 for sound restoration of Stanley Kubrick's films. Beemer has 4 previous CAS awards Dreamgirls, Road to Perdition, Gladiator and the Mini-Series John Adams – Join or Die. This is Fogel's first CAS Award.

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Series: BOARD WALK EMPIRE (To The Lost– Episode 2.12) and the Sound Mixing Team of Production Sound Mixer Franklin D. Stettner, CAS and Re-recording Mixer Tom Fleischman, CAS. This is Fleischman's third CAS Award in this category. He won last year for Boardwalk Empire (with Stettner) and has a prior win for 24. This is Stettner's second consecutive win for Boardwalk Empire.

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Non Fiction, Variety or Music – Series or Specials: DEADLIEST CATCH: New Blood and Re-recording Mixer Bob Bronow, CAS. This is the fourth CAS win for Bronow and Deadliest Catch in this category.

The winners of the CAS Technical Achievement Awards:
PRODUCTION: Zaxcom Nomad Production Sound
POST-PRODUCTION: Avid Pro Tools 10

CAS Awards was delighted to have Catherine Bach, R.D. Call, Nestor Serrano, and Marina Sirtis.

The CAS appreciates the support of our
2012 CAS Awards Dinner Sponsors:

Double Platinum
Paramount Pictures

Platinum
Avid
HBO
Technicolor

Gold
Dolby Laboratories
NBC Universal Operations
Sony Pictures
Silver
Audio-Technica
Creative Artists Agency
ReelzChannel
Warner Bros. Studio Facilities

***There was no award given in the Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for DVD Original Programming Category this year.

***The CAS Awards was pleased to begin acknowledging the excellent work of Scoring Mixers at this year's gala.

Photo Credit: Ana Gibert