Cinema Audio Society Awards: ‘The Bear’, ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Among Early Winners – Updating Live

The 60th Cinema Audio Society Awards are underway Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton, with the group honoring the year’s best in feature film and TV sound mixing.

Tom Papa is hosting the ceremony that will crown winners in seven competitive categories, while along the way honoring JJ Abrams with the society’s Filmmaker of the Year award and Joe Earl (American Horror Story, Six Feet Under) the CAS Career Achievement Award. 

This year’s marquee Live Action Motion Picture category features craftsman from two of the five of this year’s Best Sound Oscar nominees in Universal’s Oppenheimer and Netflix’s Maestro. They are joined by Warner Bros’ Barbie, Neon’s Ferrari and Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

Last year, Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick won in the category. It went on to repeat the feat at the Oscars.

In addition to Oppenheimer and Maestro, this year’s Oscar nominees in the Sound category include Disney’s The Creator, Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and A24’s The Zone of Interest.

Tonight’s CAS TV categories, meanwhile, include a swath of titles that have been among the staples of awards season, with nominees including Succession, Beef, Ted Lasso, The Crown, The Last of Us, The Bear, Only Murders in the Building, The Mandalorian and Welcome to Wrexham.

Already tonight, FX’s The Bear, which has swept to major wins at the Emmys and SAG Awards among other honors, won here for Half Hour TV series, submitting Season 2’s episode “Forks.” The Roku Channel’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story has won in the Non-Theatrical Motion Picture or Limited Series category, while Sam Green’s 32 Sounds appropriately won for Documentary, topping a field that included the sound mixers from the 2023 concert film phenomenon Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.

Check out the list of winners below as they are revealed.

TELEVISION SERIES – HALF HOUR

The Bear

S02 E07 Forks

Production Mixer – Scott D. Smith CAS

Re-Recording Mixer – Steve “Major” Giammaria CAS

ADR Mixer – Patrick Christensen

Foley Mixer – Ryan Collison

Foley Mixer – Connor Nagy

MOTION PICTURES – DOCUMENTARY

32 Sounds

Production Mixer – Laura Cunningham

Re-Recording Mixer – Mark Mangini

Scoring Mixer – Ben Greenberg

ADR Mixer – Bobby Johanson CAS

Foley Mixer – Blake Collins CAS

NON-THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES OR LIMITED SERIES

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Production Mixer – Richard Bullock CAS

Re-Recording Mixer – Tony Solis

Scoring Mixer – Phil McGowan CAS

ADR Mixer – Brian Magrum CAS

Foley Mixer – Erika Koski CAS