Avid customers nominated for Emmy Awards
July 30, 2015

Avid customers nominated for Emmy Awards

BURLINGTON, MA — A number of Avid (www.avid.com) customers are Emmy nominees for their outstanding achievements in the television industry. The 67th Annual Emmy Awards will be presented on September 20th at the Microsoft Theater LA Live in Los Angeles.

Avid editing professionals nominated for “Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series” include Kelley Dixon and Chris  McCaleb for Better Call Saul; Tim Porter and Katie Weiland for Game of  Thrones; and Tom Wilson for Mad Men: Person to Person.

Avid audio and video professionals used Avid Artist Suite creative tools to create Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, Seattle. Fred Stuben,  Jeff Fuller, and Eddie Kim have been nominated for “Outstanding Sound  Mixing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera),” while  Justin Lebens has been nominated for “Outstanding Sound Editing for  Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera).”

"It's an honor to be nominated for these awards, and for us to be able to share these stories with the world," said Jim Rota, executive  producer of Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. "We used Avid Artist Suite  solutions for both the audio and video post production of Sonic  Highways and we had absolutely no glitches with it throughout the  entire production. The results were stellar and we couldn't have done  it without Avid." 

The following is a list of nominees that made use of Avid technology:

OUTSTANDING SINGLE-CAMERA PICTURE EDITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES
 -- Better Call Saul - Five-O (AMC)
     Kelley Dixon, Editor
 -- Better Call Saul - Marco (AMC)
     Kelley Dixon, Editor
     Chris McCaleb, Editor
 -- Game Of Thrones - Hardhome (HBO)
     Tim Porter, Editor
 -- Game Of Thrones - The Dance of Dragons (HBO)
     Katie Weiland, Editor
 -- Mad Men - Person To Person (AMC)
     Tom Wilson, Editor

OUTSTANDING SINGLE-CAMERA PICTURE EDITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
 -- Silicon Valley - Sand Hill Shuffle (HBO)
     Tim Roche, Editor
 -- Silicon Valley - Two Days Of The Condor (HBO)
     Brian Merken, Editor
 -- Transparent - Pilot (Amazon Instant Video)
     Catherine Haight, Editor

OUTSTANDING MULTI-CAMERA PICTURE EDITING FOR A COMEDY SERIES
 -- 2 Broke Girls - And The Move-In Meltdown (CBS)
     Darryl Bates, Editor
     Ben Bosse, Editor
 -- The Big Bang Theory - The Comic Book Store Regeneration (CBS)
     Peter Chakos, Editor

OUTSTANDING SINGLE-CAMERA PICTURE EDITING FOR A LIMITED SERIES OR A
MOVIE
-- 24: Live Another Day - 10:00 P.M. - 11:00 A.M. (FOX)
     Scott Powell, Editor
-- Houdini - Night 1 (HISTORY)
     Sabrina Plisco, Editor
     David Beatty, Editor

OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING
-- Citizenfour (HBO)
     Mathilde Bonnefoy, Editor
-- The Case Against 8 (HBO)
     Kate Amend, Editor

OUTSTANDING PICTURE EDITING FOR REALITY PROGRAMMING
-- Deadliest Catch - A Brotherhood Tested (Discovery Channel)
     Josh Earl, Supervising Editor
     Alexander Rubinow, Editor
     Alex Durham, Editor
 -- Project Runway - Finale, Part 2 (Lifetime)
     Andrea Bailey, Editor
     Jim Bedford, Editor
     Julie Cohen, Editor
     Ed Greene, Editor
     Jensen Rufe, Editor
 -- Project Runway All Stars - Something Wicked This Way Comes (Lifetime)
     Carlos David Rivera, Editor
     Mary DeChambres, Editor
 -- Survivor - Survivor Warfare (Worlds Apart) (CBS)
     Frederick Hawthorne, Supervising Editor
     Joubin Mortazavi, Editor
     Evan Mediuch, Editor
     Tim Atzinger, Editor
     David Armstrong, Editor
     Plowden Schumacher, Editor
     Bill Bowden, Editor
 -- The Amazing Race - Morocc' And Roll (CBS)
     Andy Castor, Editor
     Julian Gomez, Editor
     Andrew Kozar, Editor
     Ryan Leamy, Editor
     Jennifer Nelson, Editor
     Paul C. Nielsen, Editor
     Jacob Parsons, Editor

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES
-- Better Call Saul - Marco (AMC)
     Phillip W. Palmer, Sound Engineer
     Larry Benjamin, Sound Engineer
     Kevin Valentine, Sound Engineer

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING (SINGLE OR
MULTI-CAMERA)
-- Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways - Seattle (HBO)
     Fred Stuben, Production Mixer
     Jeff Fuller, Re-Recording Mixer
     Eddie Kim, Re-Recording Mixer

OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING FOR NONFICTION PROGRAMMING (SINGLE OR
MULTI-CAMERA)
-- Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways - Seattle (HBO)
     Justin Lebens, Sound Editor