26 Audible Productions Named as Finalists for 2017 Audie Awards
February 09 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Sean Penn, Emma Thompson, Scarlett
Johansson, Richard Armitage, and Zachary Quinto all among annual
industry prize finalists
Audible.com today announced that its two production arms,
Audible Studios and the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), received
a combined 26 nominations for the 2017 Audie Awards, which honor
outstanding audiobooks and other spoken-word performances. Audible
has finalists in sixteen categories. Winners will be announced by
the Audio Publishers Association at the Audies Gala on June 1,
2017, in New York.
“We are so proud of the Audible Studios and ACX productions
recognized this year, all of which attest to our ever-rising
standards of quality,” said Audible EVP and Publisher Beth
Anderson. “We are honored to have been able to work with some of
Hollywood’s finest actors in 2016, and we are particularly excited
that three Audible titles have been named as finalists in the
'Original Work' category for the fourth year in a row. The category
continues to expand the range of listening experiences we offer our
customers.”
Among the highlights of this year’s Audie finalists for
Audible:
- Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn’s
captivating performance of Pappy Pariah’s audio original satire Bob
Honey Who Just Do Stuff in the “Best Male Narrator” category
- Academy Award-winning actress Emma
Thompson’s chilling interpretation of The Turn of the Screw in the
“Best Female Narrator” category
- Alien: Out of the Shadows, an audio
original dramatization, written by Tim Lebbon and Dirk Maggs,
including elaborate sound design, music, and a full cast, in both
the “Best Audio Drama” and the “Best Original Work” categories
- Stage and screen actor Richard
Armitage’s charming performance of David Copperfield in the “Best
Literary Fiction and Classics” category
- Zachary Quinto’s simmering rendition of
New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi’s audio original
novella, The Dispatcher, in both the “Best Original Work” and “Best
Science Fiction” categories
- Golden Globe-nominated actress Scarlett
Johansson’s whimsical performance of Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland in the “Best Literary Fiction and Classics”
category
- Acclaimed actors Dominic West, Janet
McTeer, and the cast of the London Stage play Les Liaisons
Dangereuses for their performance of the audio drama of the same
name in the “Best Multi-Voiced Performance” category
- Nine of Audible’s 26 finalists this
year were produced and/or distributed via the Audiobook Creation
Exchange (ACX), an online audio rights marketplace and production
platform launched by Audible in 2011.
Audible invented and commercialized the first digital audio
player in 1997, and has since been at the forefront of the
explosively growing audiobook download segment. Audible members
downloaded an average of more than 17 books over the course of the
year. More than half of new Audible members are first-time
audiobook buyers.
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio information and entertainment, offering customers a new way
to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible was created to
unleash the emotive music in language and the habituating power and
utility of verbal expression. Audible content includes more than
350,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers,
broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and
business information providers. Audible is also the provider of
spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store.
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Audible.comEsther Bochner, 973-820-0781bochnere@audible.com
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