Oscars 2021: Nominees for Best Sound Category Speak Out as Final Voting Starts
For the first time this year, the Academy has combined Sound Editing and Sound Mixing into one category, Best Achievement in Sound. […]
Articles by Mel Lambert
Jamie Kirkpatrick on Editing John Leguizamo’s Chess Drama ‘Critical Thinking’
One critic has likened the film to director Ramón Menéndez’s “Stand and Deliver” (1988), in which a teacher successfully inspires his dropout-prone students to learn calculus. […]
Walter Murch Talks Editing a Key Piece of Iranian History in New Doc ‘Coup 53’
by Mel Lambert “The editor of an unscripted documentary is always, by the nature of the task at hand, a […]
From ‘Ford v Ferrari’ to ‘Parasite,’ Oscar’s Favorite Picture Editors Break Down the Year’s Top Films at IAVA
All of the Oscar-nominated editors appeared at a panel discussion during the American Cinema Editors’ 20th Annual “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” (IAVA) to talk about their films, their careers, and their craft. […]
Tom Fleischman, CAS Honoree, Talks Tricks, Techniques, and Films, from ‘Boys in the Band’ to ‘Irishman’
“I’ve always wished someone would invent a device that I could put on my head and think about how the film should sound.” […]
How the Sound Team Made Those Engines Roar in Matt Damon and Christian Bale’s Race Car Movie ‘Ford v Ferrari’
“The cars became characters in their own right – big and bold and real.” […]
Now Hear This: 2019 Mix Event at Sony Gave Sound Pros a Chance to Pick Up Secrets Buried in the Tracks
“The show’s music sets the tone.” […]
When They Hear Us: Creating the Period-Specific Soundtrack for a Tragedy of Justice
The Netflix four-part miniseries When They See Us, which dropped May 31, was originally called Central Park 5. That working title identifies the overarching plot trajectory: The notorious case of five teenagers of color who were wrongly convicted of raping a white female jogger in New York, and which resulted in the use of the term “wilding” to describe out-of-control gang activity. The revised title better reflects the fate of the young people unjustly ensnared in the criminal justice system by embracing their humanity and not their politicized role. […]
NAB Show 2019 Update:
New Unveilings from Avid and Blackmagic
During the annual NAB Show, which ends its 2019 run at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Thursday, April 11, two leading innovators of picture editing platforms announced new updates and enhancements. […]
What Not to Miss at NAB 2019:
Future Post Tech and Much More
With an expected attendance in excess of 100,000 this coming weekend at the Las Vegas Convention Center for key technical sessions, workshops and seminars, the annual NAB Show has become an important venue for post-production professionals. […]