The Oscars may have combined the Sound Editing and Sound Mixing categories into one Best Sound award this year, but the industry honors are continuing to move forward separately. Over the past two days, the MPSE Golden Reel Awards (Sound Editing) and the Cinema Audio Society’s CAS Awards (Sound Mixing) announced their yearly honors. Films and programs that won honors from both organizations included “Soul,” “The Queen’s Gambit” and “The Mandalorian.”

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“Sound of Metal” won the key CAS Award for a Motion Picture.

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For the first time in decades, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will bestow just one Oscar for Sound. The Sound Mixing and Sound Editing categories, for the time being, are no more. That doesn’t mean, however, that the artists who craft the sounds have given up dividing the riches. Over the past two days, the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) and the Cinema Audio Society revealed their nominees for the MPSE Golden Reels Awards and the CAS Awards, respectively.

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The Cinema Audio Society handed out its 2019 CAS Awards on Saturday night and provided some keen insight on how the Sound Mixing Oscar race might play out.  “Bohemian Rhapsody” took the top prize over major competition from “A Star is Born” and “First Man.”  Whether AMPAS members feel the same way about the Freddie Mercury and Queen biopic in this category remains to be seen.

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Another day, another round of honorees for the upcoming slate of award season ceremonies and telecasts.  Today, Steven Spielberg and Alan Alda are your recipients of Hollywood guild adoration.

Spielberg will be feted by the Cinema Audio Society with their annual Filmmaker Award at the 55th Annual CAS Awards on Feb. 16th. This appears long overdue with previous winners including Joe Wright, Jon Favreau, Jay Roach, Richard Linklater, Edward Zwick, Jonathan Demme, Rob Marshall, Taylor Hackford, Henry Selick, Paul Mazursky, Bill Condon, Gil Cates and Quentin Tarantino.

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The final, yes, the final guild honor to be handed out before the Academy Awards this year were the CAS Awards on Saturday night, and there were few surprises from the Cinema Audio Society.  The guild awarded honors to the presumptive winner of the Sound Mixing Oscar, “Dunkirk,” as well as the massively popular “Game of Thrones.” 

Paul Thomas Anderson on Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk”

Other winners included “Coco,” “Jane” (a major guild winner that was snubbed by the Academy), “Silicon Valley” and “Black Mirror: USS Callister.”

All of this year’s nominees and winners are as follows.

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The Cinema Audio Society announced the nominations this morning for the 54th Annual CAS Awards, a Sound Mixing honor that is often a precursor to the Academy Awards.  For films hunting for Oscar nods, such as “Baby Driver,” it was very good news.

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This year’s film nominees include “Dunkirk,” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” “The Shape of Water,” “Wonder Woman” and the aforementioned Edgar Wright summer hit. 

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