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Celebrating Sound: CAS 43rd Annual Award Ceremony
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"Sound is more important than picture!" Robert Wuhl said with conviction. I absolutely agree ... sound is crucial. It is exactly what sets a film's tone before you ever see a picture projected on the screen. I knew exactly what I was in for the minute I heard the beauty pageant announcer exuberantly talking over the music of Devotchka before ever seeing Olive's face in Little Miss Sunshine. A sound mixer's stamp on a film is that deafening. Even silent films relied on sound to tell their stories. Buster Keaton's impeccable talents in The General still couldn't mimic the sound of a frantically moving train and the beating heart of a man driven by love.
"Sound people don't get the respect they deserve," Wuhl also said. The work of a sound mixer can, ironically, go unheard. It's the more 'technical' category of the Oscars where the winner will certainly be hushed off the stage by a premature sound cue -- the irony ensues. Luckily, the Cinema Audio Society held their 43rd Annual award ceremony on February 17 to honor their own for their outstanding achievements in filmmaking.
Gilbert Cates Honored By CAS
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The Cinema Audio Society (or CAS) has very very VERY nice things to say about Gilbert Cates. Cates is a film, television and theatre director, as well as a producer (he has been producing most of the Academy Awards since 1990) and actively participates in the Directors Guild of America, which he was president of for four years. Apart from being one heck of a multi-tasker, the man is also "a skilled filmmaker who is a master at all he touches," said CAS board president Richard Lightson. See? Very very nice! CAS will be honoring Cates at this year's awards ceremony in February.Cates will receive the CAS Filmmaker Award; Quentin Tarantino was the first to go home with the award last year. Cates directed the Emmy nominated television movie starring Henry Winkler and Patty Duke called Absolute Strangers ,and is also one of the directors behind the 80's remake of The Twilight Zone.
The CAS Awards includes a full ceremony of honorees, awarding everything from best picture to the best television episode -- all, of course, praising the sound design of such works. This will be the 43rd Annual CAS Award ceremony; a ceremony dedicated to what the Oscars are only able to devote one category, despite a sound mixer's crucial responsibility for the completion of a film. The best film teacher I had in college pointed out their importance to me; before the first frame ever appears on the big screen, what is it that sets the tone? It's the sound that emanates from the speakers hanging overhead -- once you recognize this, you'll never want to miss what your ears can hear but your eyes can't see.
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