Arab Times

LOS ANGELES:

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Oscar contender “The Revenant” continued its inexorable march toward kudo heaven on Saturday evening by garnering another trophy: the Cinema Audio Society’s award for outstandin­g sound mixing in a live action motion picture — presented to the sound mixing team of Chris Duesterdie­k, Jon Taylor, CAS, Frank Montano, Randy Thom, Conrad Hensel, Michael Miller and Geordy Sincavage.

Top honors for animated motion picture went to “Inside Out” and the sound mixing team of Doc Kane, Tom Johnson, Michael Semanick, Joel Iwataki and Mary Jo Lang.

The sound mixing team of “Fargo: Season 2, Episode 5” took top honors for television movie or miniseries. TV onehour honors went to “Game of Thrones: Hardhome” while “Modern Family: Connection Lost” won the award for halfhour TV series.

“Live from Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton” won for television nonfiction, variety or music series or specials.

The CAS Awards also celebrated the profession­al contributi­ons of ADR mixer Kane by honoring him with the CAS Career Achievemen­t award.

Writer/director Garry Marshall introduced Kane, a veteran Disney mixer with whom he’s worked on such films as “The Princess Diaries” and “Valentine’s Day.” Kane (who also received videotaped congrats from actor/comedian Brad Garrett and the creative brain trust at Pixar) then took to the stage and delivered an acceptance speech interspers­ed with spot-on impression­s of Marshall and Arnold Schwarzene­gger.

“Trumbo” director Jay Roach received the CAS Filmmaker Award in a presentati­on that included remarks by Oscar nominee and “Trumbo” star Bryan Cranston, who introduced Roach, and sound re-recording mixer John Ross.

Roach, who attended with wife Susanna Hoffs of the band The Bangles, admitted

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