Chapter 3

The Passing of a Tradition and Coming of Age

In the professional world of sound award achievements for film and television, the four standards are the Golden Reel Awards (Motion Picture Sound Editors), the CAS Awards (Cinema Audio Society), the Emmys (the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences), and of course the most coveted of all, the Academy Awards (the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Where the Golden Reel Awards, CAS Awards, and Emmy Awards present numerous awards each year for sound in many aspects and many categories, there is only one Academy Award each year for Best Sound Editing and one Academy Award each year for Best Sound Mixing.

THE PASSING OF A TRADITION

For a quarter of a century, members of the Academy ...

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