Dune won the top prize at the 58th Cinema Audio Society Awards for outstanding sound mixing Saturday at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Rerecording mixer Ron Bartlett accepted the award and thanked the sound team, director Denis Villeneuve and others from the film.
The sound mixing team behind the sci-fi epic won the live-action motion picture category, for which it was nominated alongside the sound mixing teams of No Time to Die, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Power of the Dog and West Side Story.
Dune, West Side Story and No Time to Die, along with Belfast and The Power of the Dog, are nominated for the Oscar for best sound, which combines sound editing and sound mixing.
Additional CAS winners included Encanto in the animated feature category and Summer of Soul for feature documentary.
Numerous speakers including CAS president Karol Urban and Encanto rerecording mixer David Fluhr urged the Academy Awards to #PresentAll23 during their remarks. “It’s good to be at an awards show where the sound category is in the show,” said presenter Diane Warren. Meanwhile, presenter and West Side Story production sound mixer Tod Maitland said, “All of our crafts have to stand together.” And two-time Oscar winner and 22-time nominee Andy Nelson (West Side Story) called the Academy’s plan “a decision I strongly object to.”
A highlight of the evening was the presentation of the Career Achievement Award to rerecording mixer Paul Massey, who additionally won an award for Summer of Soul (he was nominated for aforementioned No Time to Die). Massey couldn’t attend in person due to COVID-19. Instead, he accepted live via Zoom to enthusiastic applause and received a lengthy standing ovation.
Massey received heartfelt tributes from colleagues and friends David Giammarco and Andy Nelson, as well as video congratulations from Hans Zimmer — who called Massey a “magician of sound” — and Ridley Scott. A special guest, Massey’s…