by Nathaniel R
The 57th annual CAS awards, aka Hollywood's sound guild, have announced their nominations for this year's April 17th virtual event. George Clooney will be honored with their annual non-competitive Filmmaker Award and William B Kaplan will receive their Career Achievement Honor at that ceremony. Their nominations for the 2020 film year are after the jump...
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Last year their nominees went 3/5 for the Oscar nominations though sometimes its 4/5. We don't recall ever seeing a perfect 5/5 transfer to Oscar's sound mixing nominations but perhaps there has been one at some point. Given the (presumed) strength of four of these in the Best Picture race, Greyhound looks the most vulnerable but it's a war film so maybe it's not? We'll see. Other Oscar spoilers in the sound race could be Tenet, Da 5 Bloods, Midnight Sky, Nomadland, Invisible Man, Soul, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, United States vs Billie Holiday ... though their absence here doesn't help. (If you're curious about my own preferred ballot, it matches this one 3/5 with Shirley and Ema thrown in)
That there's no sound editing category this year at the Oscars adds another wrinkle to the predictions game as every once in awhile a CAS nominee (which technically honors "mixing") would snag a Sound Editing nomination with Oscar instead of a Mixing nod.
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Toy Story 3 was the last animated film to score an Oscar nod for Sound Mixing but it used to happen a bit more frequently. Soul feels like an outside possibility for this finally happening again, given its music focus.
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I don't think we've talked about My Octopus Teacher at TFE but it's great, isn't it?
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We're a bit confused as to their eligibility parametrs as Watchmen began and ended in 2019. But here it is.
TELEVISION SERIES - 1 HOUR
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TELEVISION -NONFICTION VARIETY OR MUSIC, SERIES OR SPECIALS
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