SoundWorks Collection has just published a new video, featuring Ben Burtt at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles, November 12th, receiving Charles S. Swartz Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Post Production, during the Hollywood Post Alliance Awards gala. Some time ago I told you about this, so here is the video, another great post by the recently lanuched SoundWorks Collection.

HPA Awards co-founder and committee chair Carolyn Giardina said:

“We are thrilled to recognize Ben Burtt with the Charles S. Swartz Award, an honor that represents everything that the HPA stands for; creativity, technical excellence, and limitless thinking. From R2 D2 to WALL-E, Ben Burtt has helped create some of the most unforgettable characters of our generation. We are honored to present this award to him.”

The Charles S. Swartz Award was created to honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of post production; an industry in a state of an expanding creative palette and of dynamic transition as a result of digital technologies and societal changes. The award was named in honor of the late Charles Swartz, who led the Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern California from 2002 until 2006 and helped to build it into the industry’s premiere test bed for new digital cinema technologies. In addition to a long and successful career as producer, educator and consultant, Mr. Swartz served on the Board of Directors of the HPA. Leon Silverman, President of the HPA noted that “Ben Burtt’s career and accomplishments speak to the true spirit of this award, which recognizes impactful contributions. Ben Burtt’s impact to the art and craft of post production and to our cultural legacy should be celebrated. ”

Ben Burtt @ Designing Sound

SoundWorks Collection

HPA Awards co-founder and committee chair Carolyn Giardina said, “We are thrilled to recognize Ben Burtt with the Charles S. Swartz Award, an honor that represents everything that the HPA stands for; creativity, technical excellence, and limitless thinking. From R2 D2 to WALL-E, Ben Burtt has helped create some of the most unforgettable characters of our generation. We are honored to present this award to him.”

The Charles S. Swartz Award was created to honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of post production; an industry in a state of an expanding creative palette and of dynamic transition as a result of digital technologies and societal changes. The award was named in honor of the late Charles Swartz, who led the Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern California from 2002 until 2006 and helped to build it into the industry’s premiere test bed for new digital cinema technologies. In addition to a long and successful career as producer, educator and consultant, Mr. Swartz served on the Board of Directors of the HPA. Leon Silverman, President of the HPA noted that “Ben Burtt’s career and accomplishments speak to the true spirit of this award, which recognizes impactful contributions. Ben Burtt’s impact to the art and craft of post production and to our cultural legacy should be celebrated. ”

The Hollywood Post Alliance Awards take place on November 12th at the Skirball Center. In addition to the Charles S. Swartz Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Post Production, 12 categories of awards will be bestowed, including nods for outstanding color grading, outstanding audio post production, outstanding editing, and outstanding compositing. Paul Haggar, long-time head of feature post production at Paramount Pictures will receive the HPA Lifetime Achievement Award during the gala, and recipients of the Engineering Excellence Award will also be awarded to DVS, S. Two and Signiant. For further information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.hpaawards.net, call 213.614.0860 or email info@hpaawards.net.

Congratulations, Ben!! you deserve it!

Vía U.S.O / The Briefing Room.

He has shared in 14 Academy Award nominations, winning for best sound editing for “The Incredibles” and best sound for “The Right Stuff.”

He’s been nominated four times by CAS and took top honors in 1995 for “Forrest Gump.”

“The Cinema Audio Society’s Career Achievement Award honors the best of the best, and Randy Thom’s career spanning more than 30 years and over 75 films and numerous awards certainly warrants being honored,” said CAS president Edward L. Moskowitz.

Thom began his career in film 30 years ago working for “Apocalypse Now.” He is currently the director of Sound Design at Skywalker Sound.

Congratulations, Randy!!

Vía Hollywood Reporter / USO Twitter

Randy Thom @ Designing Sound

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
Kirk Francis,CAS, Production Mixer
Scott Millan, Re-recording Mixer
David Parker, Re-recording Mixer

INTO THE WILD
Edward Tise, Production Mixer
Michael Minkler, CAS, Re-recording Mixer
Lora Hirschberg, Re-recording Mixer

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Peter Kurland, CAS, Production Mixer
Skip Lievsay, Re-recording Mixer
Craig Berkey, Re-recording Mixer
Gregg Orloff, CAS, Re-recording Mixer

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Patrick Rousseau, Production Mixer
Chris Jenkins, CAS, Re-recording Mixer
Frank Montano, Re-recording Mixer

TRANSFORMERS
Peter Devlin, CAS, Production Mixer
Kevin O’Connell, Re-recording Mixer
Greg P. Russell, CAS, Re-recording Mixer

The CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing are presented annually to the winning Production Mixers and Re-Recording Mixers in each category. The competition is open to programs and films released or aired during the previous calendar year.

Los Angeles –Music Scoring and Sound Re-recording Mixer, Dennis Sands, CAS will receive the Cinema Audio Society’s highest accolade, the CAS Career Achievement Award, to be presented at the 44th CAS Awards on February 16th, 2008 at the Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.

Sands won the CAS Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for FORREST GUMP and was also nominated for CAS Awards for CAST AWAY and CONTACT. He is a four time Academy Award Nominee for THE POLAR EXPRESS, CAST AWAY, CONTACT and FORREST GUMP.
His Sound Mixing for “Steve & Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin” won him an Emmy Award. Additionally, he has won two Golden Reel Awards for
AMERICAN BEAUTY and SOUTH PARK; Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

His extensive career as a Music Scoring Mixer and a Sound Re-recording Mixer encompasses nearly 200 films, hundreds of episodic television shows and numerous albums for jazz greats Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Joe Pass and Oscar Peterson.

Mr. Sands will be the 26th 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 and Ed Greene.

The 44th CAS Awards will also honor Outstanding Achievements in Sound Mixing in five categories; Motion Pictures; Television Movies and Mini- Series; Television Series; Television-Non-Fiction, Variety or Music Series or Specials and DVD Original Programming.

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.