CAS Board Member Brian Kurland Quits AMPAS Over Pre-Taped Oscar Categories Flap – CB
CB has confirmed that Brian Kurland, a four-time Oscar-nominated sound mixer who sits on the Cinema Audio Society’s board, has resigned from the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences over its plan to pre-tape a number of classes, together with Finest Sound. The information comes a day after CAS and the Affiliation of Movement Image…
CB has confirmed that Brian Kurland, a four-time Oscar-nominated sound mixer who sits on the Cinema Audio Society’s board, has resigned from the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences over its plan to pre-tape a number of classes, together with Finest Sound.
The information comes a day after CAS and the Affiliation of Movement Image Sound weighed in on the simmering controversy, saying AMPAS marked out the classes as someway much less vital “second-tier” expertise. And longtime rerecording mixer and frequent Martin Scorsese collaborator Tom Fleischman stop the Academy over the plan a few weeks in the past.
On Monday, IATSE president Matthew Loeb additionally known as out the Academy over its “detrimental” plan to pre-tape Oscar classes, saying, “Behind-the-scenes employees get little recognition as is.”
The plan has drawn criticism from a number of different fronts as properly, together with the Academy’s Music Department Governor Laura Karpman and at the least three administrators whose movies are up for Finest Image: Steven Spielberg, Jane Campion and Denis Villeneuve.
Kurland has labored in sound manufacturing for greater than 35 years, together with the entire Coen brothers’ movies. He has scored Sound Mixing Oscar noms for his or her No Nation for Previous Males, True Grit and Inside Llewyn Davis — together with James Mangold’s Stroll the Line — and likewise labored on Joel Coen’s 2021 pic The Tragedy of Macbeth. He’s additionally the enterprise supervisor for IATSE Native 492 for studio mechanics in Nashville.
Together with Finest Sound, the seven different classes that can be introduced within the hour earlier than the Oscar ceremony after which weaved into the telecast are Modifying, Make-up and Hairstyling, Authentic Rating, Manufacturing Design and Documentary, Animated and Reside Motion Quick.
The Will Packer-produced 94th annual Academy Awards airs reside coast-to-coast Sunday on ABC.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported Kurland’s resignation.
