NYC Audio Pros Are Oscar Winners at Academy Awards for Sound Mixing, Sound Editing

Martin Scorcese’s visual adventure Hugo was a big winner at last night’s 84th Academy Awards, and the legendary director’s preference for New York City talent throughout the crew was reflected in the winners for two audio post categories.

The audio portion of last night's Academy Awards was big for NYC.

In the category of “Sound Editing”, the winners were co-supervising sound editors Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty of the NYC facility c5 Sound.

In the category of “Sound Mixing”, the winning team was re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman and production mixer John Midgley. Fleischman mixed the film in 7.1-channel sound at the Soundtrack F/T facility in NYC.

Don’t miss this insightful interview, “The Sound of Hugo,” from “Below the Line”, as producer Michael Coleman interviews Stockton, Gearty, and Fleischman on the intricacies of working with Scorcese, and sculpting the Oscar-winning sound for Hugo.

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