Avid has strong showing at BAFTA Awards
February 11, 2015

Avid has strong showing at BAFTA Awards

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.