BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Avid® (NASDAQ:
AVID) customers have once again topped the list of award nominees
and winners at the world's most prestigious ceremonies that honor music,
film and television industry professionals. The success of Oscar® and
ACE Eddie award-winning films like The King's Speech, The
Fighter, and Toy Story 3, and GRAMMY® award-winning musical
projects by Lady Antebellum, Eminem and Arcade Fire, demonstrates
that professionals continue to rely on Avid's audio and video
solutions—including Media
Composer® and Pro
Tools® software—as indispensible tools to achieve their creative
vision, however they define it.
83rd Annual Academy Awards
More than 45 customers who used Avid audio and video solutions received
nominations at the 2011 Annual Academy Awards® held on February 27, with
Oscar wins going to customers in the Best Motion Picture, Sound Editing,
Sound Mixing, Original Score, Original Song, Documentary Feature,
Animated Feature, Visual Effects, and Foreign Language Film categories.
Ron Greenberg, Avid's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for
Avid, commented, "This year also marks two important industry
milestones, the first of which underscores the important role that
education institutions play in teaching film and audio production — and
we salute the many alumni from Full Sail University and the USC School
of Cinematic Arts who were nominated this year." Avid products and
solutions were used by 84 Full
Sail University graduates on 23 Oscar nominated films in 2011,
including Garry Rizzo, a Full Sail graduate and Pro Tools expert user
who received an individual Oscar nomination in the Best Sound Mixing
category for the film Inception. In addition, many alumni from
the USC
School of Cinematic Arts received individual Oscar nominations and
used different Avid solutions, including Mark Stoeckinger for Unstoppable
(Best Sound Editing) and Lee Unkrich for Toy Story 3 (Best
Animated Feature Film).
The second significant milestone relates to the audio post production
industry, where for the past 11-consecutive years, every
nominee for a Sound Editing Oscar has used a Pro Tools system.
Andrew Weisblum, who received both Oscar and ACE Eddie nominations for
his editing work on Black Swan, said, "I spent half the shoot
editing right on set with a laptop loaded with Avid Media Composer
software. This approach was a huge part in our success in meeting the
tight time constraints without sacrificing the creative integrity of the
project. Working side-by-side with the director at that early stage of
the filmmaking process created an environment of close collaboration
that ensured my work aligned with his vision. With the mobile editing
set-up, I was able to try different edits out immediately and make sure
the sequences were timed correctly. This was particularly critical
towards the last third of the film when the ballet and the film merge
together."
53rd GRAMMY Awards
At the 53rd GRAMMY Awards held on February 13, 2011, more
than 100 customers and music school graduates contributed to GRAMMY
nominated projects, including those who recorded and mixed every song or
album nominated for a 2011 GRAMMY Award in the Record of the Year and
Album of the Year categories (announced
in a separate release). Working on nearly 75 of the nominated
projects, 25 Avid customers walked with GRAMMY gold, including those who
contributed to Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now," Eminem's Recovery, Lady
Gaga's The Fame Monster, and Arcade Fire's The Suburbs.
61st Annual ACE Eddie Awards
Each year, the ACE Eddie Awards recognize the most accomplished editors
in television and film. Avid customers honored by the American Cinema
Editors during a ceremony held on February 19, 2011, include:
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Chris Lebenzon, A.C.E., for Alice in Wonderland (Best Edited
Feature Film — Comedy or Musical);
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Ken Schretzmann and Lee Unkrich, A.C.E., for Toy Story 3 (Best
Edited Animated Feature Film);
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Jonathan Schwartz for Modern Family (Best Edited Half-Hour
Series for Television);
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Kate Sanford, A.C.E., and Alexander Hall for Treme: "Do You Know
What It Means" (Best Edited One-Hour Series for Non-Commercial
Television); and,
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Leo Trombetta, A.C.E., for Temple Grandin (Best Edited
Miniseries for Motion Picture for Television).
About Avid
Avid creates the digital audio and video technology used to make the
most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world—from
the most prestigious and award-winning feature films, music recordings,
television shows, live concert tours and news broadcasts, to music and
movies made at home. Some of Avid's most influential and pioneering
solutions include Media Composer, Pro Tools, Interplay®, ISIS®, VENUE,
Oxygen 8, Sibelius®, System 5, and Pinnacle Studio™. For more
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Formula PR
Taryn Unruh, 619-234-0345
unruh@formulapr.com
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