BURLINGTON, MA — The British Academy Film Awards 2015 were hosted by the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) in London recently, and Avid’s tools were used on many of the nominees, including the Best Film winner, Boyhood. Fellow nominees
The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Theory Of Everything, Birdman and
The Imitation Game all employed Avid tools in their workflow.
In the Best Editing category, all six nominated films were cut using Avid Media Composer software. Tom Cross won the Editing BAFTA Award for Whiplash. Fellow nominees in the category included Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione for
Birdman, Barney Pilling for
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Jinx Godfrey for
The Theory Of Everything, William Goldenberg for
The Imitation Game, and John Gilroy for
Nightcrawler.
Best Sound nominees who relied on Avid’s Pro Tools software included Thomas Varga, Martin Hernández, Aaron Glascock, Jon Taylor, and Frank A. Montaño for Birdman; Walt Martin, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman for
American Sniper; and John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, and Martin Jensenn for
The Imitation Game. Thomas Curley, Ben Wilkins and Craig Mann picked up the award for their work on
Whiplash. Best Original Music nominee Hans Zimmer used Pro Tools and System 5 to create the music for
Interstellar.