'La La Land' Wins Cinema Audio Society Award for Sound Mixing

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TV honorees included 'Game of Thrones' and 'Grease Live!'
 La La Land danced off with the Cinema Audio Society’s award for sound mixing in a live action feature film, during the 53rd annual CAS Awards, Saturday at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel.

The award -- which went to re-recording mixers Andy Nelson and Ai-Ling Lee, production sound mixer Steven Morrow, scoring mixer Nicholai Baxter, ADR mixer David Betancourt and Foley mixer James Ashwill — topped a field of nominees that also included Doctor Strange, Hacksaw Ridge, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Sully.


La La Land’s Nelson, Lee and Morrow are also on the Oscar ballot for sound mixing, along with the sound mixing teams from CAS nominees Hacksaw Ridge and Rogue One, as well as Arrival and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.

In six of the last 10 years, the winner of the CAS live action feature competition went on to win the Oscar. That has included two high profile musicals: Les Miserables (La La Land’s Nelson was also part of that team) in 2012 and Dreamgirls in 2006.

Also Saturday at the CAS Awards, Pixar’s Finding Dory was honored in the animated feature category and The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in the new documentary feature category.

In the television competition, winners included Game of Thrones (one-hour series), Modern Family (half-hour series), The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (TV movie or minseries) and Grease Live! (TV nonfiction, variety or music series or specials).

Jon Faveau was presented the Filmmaker Award during the ceremony, saluted by Seth MacFarlane, The Jungle Book composer John Debney, and CAS president and Academy Award winner Mark Ulano. “It means so much to me that those who have worked with me didn’t veto this,” Favreau quipped, accepting the award. On a more serious note, he praised the "invisible art" that too often is "undervalued" and reflected on the “magical” moment “when you ultimately take the picture and marry it to sound.”

Production mixer John Pritchett -- an Oscar nominee for Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha and Sam Mendes’ Road to Perdition – received a standing ovation as he was presented the Career Achievement Award by his Road to Perdition collaborator Scott Millan and Jack Black--who joked that sound mixing is "a lot like plastic surgery, you only notice it when it's badly done."

CAS also presented a Student Recognition Award to Wenrui ‘Sam’ Fan of Chapman University.

Elayne Boosler hosted the ceremony.

The complete winners list follows:


 La La Land WINNER

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



Doctor Strange

Production Mixer – John Midgley, CAS

Re-recording Mixer – Tom Johnson

Re-recording Mixer –Juan Peralta

Scoring Mixer – Peter Cobbin

ADR Mixer – Doc Kane, CAS

Foley Mixer – Scott Curtis



Hacksaw Ridge

Production Mixer – Peter Grace

Re-recording Mixer – Kevin O’Connell, CAS

Re-recording Mixer – Andy Wright

Re-recording Mixer – Robert Mackenzie

Scoring Mixer – Daniel Kresco

ADR Mixer – Diego Ruiz

Foley Mixer – Alex Francis



Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Production Mixer – Stuart Wilson

Re-recording Mixer – Christopher Scarabosio

Re-recording Mixer – David Parker

Scoring Mixer – Joel Iwataki

ADR Mixer – Nick Cray

Foley Mixer – Frank Rinella



Sully

Production Mixer – Jose Antonio Garcia

Re-recording Mixer – John Reitz

Re-recording Mixer – Tom Ozanich

Scoring Mixer – Bobby Fernandez

ADR Mixer – Thomas J. O’Connell

Foley Mixer – James Ashwill


Finding Dory WINNER

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



Kubo and the Two Strings

Original Dialogue Mixer – Carlos Sotolongo

Re-recording Mixer – Tim Chau

Re-recording Mixer – Tim LeBlanc

Scoring Mixer – Nick Wollage

Foley Mixer – Darrin Mann



Moana
Original Dialogue Mixer – Paul McGrath

Re-recording Mixer – David E. Fluhr, CAS

Re-recording Mixer – Gabriel Guy, CAS

Scoring Mixer – David Boucher

Foley Mixer – Scott Curtis



The Secret Life of Pets

Original Dialogue Mixer – Carlos Sotolongo

Re-recording Mixer – Gary A. Rizzo, CAS

Re-recording Mixer – David Accord

Scoring Mixer – Frank Wolf

Foley Mixer – Jason Butler



Zootopia

Original Dialogue Mixer – Paul McGrath

Re-recording Mixer – David E. Fluhr, CAS

Re-recording Mixer – Gabriel Guy, CAS

Scoring Mixer – Joel Iwataki

Foley Mixer – Scott Curtis

 
 The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble WINNER

Production Mixer – Dimitri Tisseyre

Production Mixer – Dennis Hamlin

Re-recording Mixer – Peter Horner



13th

Re-recording Mixer – Jeffrey Perkins



Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Re-recording Mixer – Mark Fragstein

Re-recording Mixer – Marvin Keil

Re-recording Mixer – Armelle Mahe



Gleason

Re-recording Mixer – Mark A. Rozett, CAS

Re-recording Mixer – James Scullion



O.J.: Made in America

Re-recording Mixer – Keith Hodne

Re-recording Mixer – Eric Di Stefano

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