Avid Celebrates Its Creative Customers Honored at the Academy Awards
March 30 2022 - 3:30PM
Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) congratulates its Oscar-winning and nominated
customers for their outstanding achievements at the 94th annual
Academy Awards® including Best Picture winner, “CODA,” and all Best
Picture nominees who relied on Avid tools.
Every nominee in the Film Editing category, including winner Joe
Walker for “Dune,” cut their films using Avid Media Composer®, the
industry’s most-used video editing software.
ACE editors Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum were nominated
for their work on the popular autobiographical musical by
playwright Jonathan Larson, “tick, tick... BOOM!”
“We’re honored to be nominated by the Academy for Best Editing,”
said the two editors. “This film not only celebrates the life of
Jonathan Larson but pulls back the curtain about the process of
making art. We tried to do this seamlessly by interweaving footage
from Jonathan’s past, present, archival footage and musical
sequences. It’s a complex non-linear story inspired by Fosse,
Sondheim, Lin and Larson. None of this would be possible without
the tools provided by Avid, our go-to editing system for over 20
years.”
Sound nominees, including Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and
Tara Webb for “The Power of the Dog”; and Denise Yarde, Simon
Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri for “Belfast,” used Pro Tools,
Avid’s industry-standard digital audio software, to bring each
film’s sound to life.
Mackenzie, supervising sound editor on “The Power of the Dog,”
pre-mixed audio on an Avid S4 and used an Avid S6 to import
softkeys and layouts. He said, “I’m so proud of everybody’s work on
“The Power of the Dog.” We used Avid software and hardware at every
stage of the process and the soundtrack really benefitted from this
workflow. We’re all so humbled by our Academy Award nomination this
year. It’s especially exciting as it marks the first time an
Australian female re-recording mixer has been nominated –
congratulations Tara Webb!”
“We’re honored that the film industry continues to embrace
Avid’s creative tools and solutions to bring Academy
Award-nominated and winning films to life,” said Avid CEO and
President Jeff Rosica. “While eight of the award categories weren’t
honored during the live telecast this year, we want to celebrate
and make sure fans and audiences know that categories like Best
Sound and Film Editing are essential to powerful storytelling on
film. Without these stellar editorial achievements, it’s impossible
to imagine exceptional filmmaking.”
The film editing community has relied on Media Composer for 30
years to continuously achieve excellence in its craft. The Academy
first awarded an Oscar for Best Editing to an Avid user in 1996
and, in 1998, Avid received an Oscar for concept, system design and
engineering of Media Composer for motion picture editing.
Listen to leading film and television editors discussing their
craft on The Rough Cut podcast, hosted by Matt Feury, Avid’s head
of artist relations. Recent episodes feature creative contributors
behind award winners and contenders “Dune,” “The Power of the Dog,”
and “tick, tick… BOOM!”
Avid Powers Greater Creators People who
create media for a living become greater creators
with Avid’s award-winning technology solutions to make,
manage and monetize today’s most celebrated video and
audio content—from iconic movies and binge-worthy TV series,
to network news and sports, to recorded music and the live stage.
What began more than 30 years ago with our invention
of nonlinear digital video editing has led to individual
artists, creative teams and organizations everywhere
subscribing to our powerful tools and collaborating securely in the
cloud. We continue to re-imagine the many ways editors, musicians,
producers, journalists, and other content creators will bring their
stories to life. Discover the possibilities at avid.com in the
conversation on social media with the multitude of brilliant
creative people who choose Avid for a lifetime of
success.
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