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ACADEMY
AWARD FOR DAVID LEE
ASSG member
David Lee was co-winner of the Oscar for best achievement
in sound for the Warner Bros/Village Roadshow Pictures feature
"The Matrix", shot at Fox Studios Australia and Sydney
locations.
David was presented with the
award at the 72nd Academy of Motion picture Arts and Sciences
Awards, held at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, on March
26th (March 27th Australian time).
It was the first Oscar to be awarded to an australian sound
recordist in recent history.
"The Matrix"
won four oscars at the Academy Awards including Sound.
David was sound recordist on this film working with boom operators
Gerry Nucifora and ASSG member Jack Friedman.
The Oscar for Sound was presented
to the team of US re-recording mixers John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff,
david Campbell and "Ossie" production mixer David
Lee.
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The British
Academy announced the winners of this year's BAFTA Awards
on Sunday 9th April in London.
No Prizes
for guessing the Sound award went to the team from The
Matrix. David's been a real jet-setter collecting awards
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C.A.S
AWARDS WINNERS
Announcing the Winners of
the 1999 Cinema Audio Society Awards - Outstanding Achievement
in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture
" The Matrix "
RE-RECORDING MIXERS - John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David
Campbell
PRODUCTION MIXER - David Lee
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GOLDEN
REEL NOMINATION
FARSCAPE (Series 1),
the Jim Henson Creature Shop Sci-Fi series, has been nominated
for "Television episodic - Effects & Foley" in the 47th 1999
MPSE Golden Reel Awards. Filmed and posted in Australia, the
effects crew consists of Cate Cahill, David White
and Alex Wong, with Foley by Les Fiddes and
Mauricio Hernandez - all ASSG members. The crew said,
"We have Philmsound to thank for their generous contribution
in providing the tools and space for our creativity".
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1999 AFTRS Sound Graduates, Luke Dunn Gielmuda and Royce
Sanderson, have been nominated for the Verna
Fields Award for Best Student Sound Editing for "Project
Vlad" and "Little Echo Lost". There are only 4 finalists
and 2 of them are AFTRS films. Luke won the 1998 Verna Fields
Award for his work on another AFTRS film, "Preoccupied".
The winners will be announced on Saturday, March 25, 2000 at
the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, California. |
FLICKERFEST
AWARDS
Audio Loc Sound Design Award for Best Achievement in Sound ($300
from Audio Loc Sound Design and 10 Dat tapes from Film Support)
was awarded to ASSG member Sam Petty for "Flowergirl"
(Australia). |
SMPTE
honours Savage
The New York-based Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers has honoured managing director of Soundfirm Roger
Savage in this year's fellow awards for "attaining an outstanding
rank among engineers or executives in the industry". Savage
was selected for work including the first Dolby-mixed film in
Australia Mad Max II and the "first totally-automated
feature film", "Dead Calm" |
RYCOTE
WINS OSCAR
Rycote is pleased to announce that the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences has selected Vivienne Dyer and Chris
Woolf to be among the twelve recipients of Academy Awards
presented for scientific and technical achievement at a ceremony
to be held 4th March 2000 in Beverly Hills. The award is being
presented for the development of the Rycote Microphone Windshields
Modular System. |
