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The 55th annual Motion Picture Sound Editor’s Golden Reel awards acknowledging the year’s best work in the various areas of sound editing, were held last night in Los Angeles with the sound team from The Bourne Ultimatum claiming both dialog/ADR and effects and foley awards. Into the Wild rambled on with a music editing win while Hairspray danced all the way up to the stage accepting their award for best musical editorial. Best Foregin Film sound editorial went to the team from The Orphanage. The Hollywood Reporter has coverage on the rest of the awards including some quotes from the night’s Filmmaker Award recipient, Michael Bay. Congrats to all the winners! ...

Just like Jason Bourne final realizing who he was, last night the little golden guy and his army of academy members realized that the sound work in The Bourne Ultimatum was their favorite of the year. As such supervisors Karen M. Baker and Per Hallberg were awarded the best sound editing Oscar and mixers David Parker, Scott Milan, and Kirk Francis the best sound mixing Oscar. Congrats to all the winners and make sure to go buy tickets to the academy’s THE ART of SOUND event on Saturday March 8th featuring a panel discussion with these craftsmen as well as showing off clips from all the nominees! ...

With so many panel discussions and articles in the trades (please send anything I miss), its hard to keep up. Nevertheless, it is awesome to see so much coverage on our craft! NO COUNTRY PANEL (01.27.08) click HERE for the higher rez version (the panel starts after the clips) IN CONTENTION/TECH SUPPORT steals some time away from the sound team to discuss their work, VARIETY does too. VARIETY asks a few sound folk what their favorite work of the past year was. ...

Wow, I feel like Daniel Plainview in “There Will Be Blood”: “I’ve abandoned my child! I’ve abandoned my child!” Sorry for the long gap in posts. The current gig has ruined any free time I had to do this thing, but we’re almost into final mix so things here will get back on track. So I promised some coverage on last week’s “Transformers” event. There is some great stuff already online (RED CARPET DISTRICT has coverage and links most of the other sites). So what do I have? Blurry video with mediocre sound! Thanks to sound editorBarbara Delpuech for providing the footage (way more forward thinking then I was about covering this event by the way) and I’ll be back with regular posts soon. ...

Early this morning the Cinema Audio Society announced their nominees for outstanding achievement in sound mixing for motion pictures. Four out of five of the CAS’ picks have been in line with the Oscars’ every year since 2000. Winners will be announced in a sealed envelope ceremony in the Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium Biltmore Hotel on February 16, 2008. Congrats to all the nominees! THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM Kirk Francis,CAS, Production Mixer Scott Millan, Re-recording Mixer David Parker, Re-recording Mixer ...

The Motion Picture Sound Editor’s are celebrating their 55th anniversary this year and of course they will be handing out some golden reels. The annual awards acknowledge the year’s best work in the various areas of sound editorial. The nominations dropped this morning and the winners will be announced at the ceremony on Feburary 23rd. Congrats to all the nominees! Click on the each of the Category headers to get a pdf listing of all nominees and crew. ...

Early this morning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their nominees, with news dropping yesterday thatJonny Greenwood’s work on “There Will Be Blood” and Michael Brook’s for “Into the Wild” was deemed ineligible by the academy for a best score nod. I added polls to the sidebar, feel free to vote for YOUR favorite in each category(please only vote once, come on). Winners will be announced on Sunday February 24th. Congrats to all the nominees! ...

Always on the hunt for a truly scary film, “The Orphanage” is now my prey. I haven’t been so terrified in a theater in a long time. Thanks so much to sound designer Oriol Tarragó for taking the time to talk about the work he and the crew on “The Orphanage” did to scare theater-goers everywhere. FSD: How did you get involved with the film? OT: Juan Antonio Bayona [director] and I have been friends since we were in college (ESCAC) and he has always counted on me to work on his projects. When he got the chance to make a feature movie he didn’t hesitate to show me the script, years before he started shooting. ...

“There Will Be Blood” started sound prep in Los Angeles with Richard King and Michael Babcock leading the editorial charge but the show ultimately ended up at Skywalker Sound where P.T. Anderson’s last, “Punch Drunk Love” was edited and mixed. I had a chance to sit with Sound Designer Chris Scarabosiso and Re-recording Mixer Mike Semanick for a brief discussion about their work on the film. Semanick has been with PT since 1997’s “Boogie Nights” where he temped the show but was ultimately unable to final it. He teamed up again with Anderson on 1999’s “Magnolia” and they have been rolling together since. Knowing that Semanick has been with P.T. on four films now, I was interested to hear how their sound relationship works. ...

Media coverage momentum builds as award season approaches. Nominations trickle out as early as this Thursday with the Cinema Audio Society. For fun, I plan to have a few polls on the blog once the “bigger” nods are announced to let you guys vote on your favorites. Until then, below is this week’s scatter shot of articles covering an array of film sound related topics. THE NEW YORK TIMES Sits down with sound friendo’s Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey of “No Country For Old Men”. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ...