Awards

2019 Oscars: Post-Production ‘Rhapsody’

Once again, in what has become a trend at recent Oscars, the awards in all three post-production categories were swept by the same film, in this year’s case ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ the biopic of the British rock band Queen and its charismatic lead singer, Freddie Mercury. […]

Awards

Oscar-Worthy Re-Recording Mixers

At the 2019 Oscars, the nominees in the Sound Mixing category have worked on a wide variety of movie genres, from the super-heroes of ‘Black Panther’ to the Oscar-nominated Rami Malek’s turn at stadium rock with the band Queen in […]

Awards

72nd BAFTA Awards Presented

At the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards at Royal Albert Hall in London on February 10, an award was given to a Picture Editor and a combined award for Sound, including Production Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. […]

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Tommy Vicari on ‘Road to Perdition’

You might say that Tommy Vicari, CAS, is the beneficiary of good timing. A few years after director Sam Mendes and composer Thomas Newman were the toast of the film world for the Academy Award-winning American Beauty (1999), Vicari was asked to serve as scoring mixer on their follow-up film, Road to Perdition (2002). […]