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LOS ANGELES— Academy Award® winning director Jonathan Demme will receive the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award at the 49th CAS Awards on February 16, 2012 at the Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.

In making this announcement, CAS President David E. Fluhr said, “We are thrilled to be honoring Jonathan Demme.  Jonathan’s career spans 40 years as a Director, Producer and Writer, and includes both film and television and illustrates an incredible talent for both narrative films and documentaries. Following in a tradition of synergy between our two honorees, Demme as the Filmmaker Honoree and Chris Newman, CAS as the Career Achievement Honoree have had a long working relationship and on Demme’s multiple Oscar winner, The Silence of the Lambs,both were rewarded with golden statues.  He is indeed a perfect choice and we are honored to have him as our CAS Filmmaker Honoree.”

Starting out with Roger Corman in 1971, Jonathan Demme has directed and/or produced over 30 movies among them: Rachel Getting Married, Beloved, Swimming to Cambodia, Melvin and Howard and Crazy Mama.. The Untitled Ibsen Project, based on Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn’s adaptation of the Ibsen play Master Builder Solness, is now in post-production. The film stars Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Julie Haggerty and Lisa Joyce and was written for the screen by Wallace Shawn with the original stage production created by Andre Gregory. Demme’s portrait documentary Enzo Avitabile Music Life, will premiered this year at the Venice Film Festival. Other new projects in the works include 3 forthcoming New Orleans portrait documentaries along the lines of I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, The Mad, And The Beautiful. Demme’s most recent release was the third installment of his performance trilogy with Neil Young, Neil Young Journeys.

Besides The Silence of the Lambs, Demme and Newman worked together on Demme’s Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate, Married to the Mob and Neil Young: Heart of Goldamong others.

Past CAS President, Richard Lightstone commented, “The Director looks to the sound mixer to be “his ears” and to preserve the actor’s performance. In that special relationship between Jonathan Demme and Chris Newman, there is an extra ingredient in the creative process because they share the same language and understanding.”

Demme will be the 8th CAS Filmmaker Honoree.  Past honorees have been: Quentin Tarantino, Gil Cates, Bill Condon, Paul Mazursky, Henry Selick, Taylor Hackford and Rob Marshall.

Newman will be the 31st CAS Career Achievement Award Honoree.  Past honorees include Ray Dolby, Robert Altman, Jack Solomon, John Bonner, Bill Varney, Don Rogers, Walter Murch, Jim Webb, Richard Portman, Tomlinson Holman, Mike Minkler, Ed Greene, Dennis Sands, Dennis L. Maitland, Sr., Randy Thom. Jeffrey S. Wexler and Scott Millan.

The 49th CAS Awards dinner will also honor Outstanding Achievements in Sound Mixing in six categories: Motion Pictures, Animated Motion Pictures, Television Movies and Mini- Series, Television Series-One Hour, Television Series-Half Hour, Television-Non-Fiction, Variety or Music Series or Specials.

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.

On the evening of the Awards the Cinema Audio Society website will be updated in real time as the winners are announced.

Photo by: Bob Vergara

 

17 September 2012, Los Angeles— Cinema Audio Society President, David E. Fluhr, CAS today announced changes to the CAS Awards categories as well as additions to those sound mixers eligible for CAS Awards.“We are thrilled to announce that we are adding a new category for Outstanding Sound Mixing for an Animated Motion Picture.  Animation is a vibrant and vital genre that spans stories for all ages and lives on for generations.  The sound mixing being done in animation deserves to be recognized and honored,” said Fluhr in making the announcement.

The CAS will also separate the Television Series category into two categories: Outstanding Sound Mixing for Television Series — Half Hour and Outstanding Sound Mixing for Television Series — One Hour.  There will no longer be a DVD Original Programming category.

The CAS also announced that in addition to the Production Mixer, Re-Recording Mixers and Scoring Mixer the ADR and Foley mixers in both Motion Picture categories and in both the Television Movies and Mini-Series and Television Series — One Hour categories will now be included in the nominations and awards. Fluhr commented, “ADR and Foley is an integral part of the overall sound mix of a project and we are proud that these mixers will now get the recognition they so richly deserve.”

Awards for Outstanding Sound Mixing in these six categories will be presented in a sealed envelope ceremony at the 49th CAS Awards Dinner on Saturday, February 16th in the Crystal Ballroom of the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

>As previously announced the CAS Career Achievement Award will be presented to Production Sound Mixer Chris Newman.

Complete Rules and Regulations as well as the Promotional Regulations for the CAS are attached and can also be found on the CAS website at: cinemaaudiosociety.org