LOS ANGELES - The Cinema Audio Society (cinemaaudiosociety.org) will honor Academy Award-winning re-recording mixer Skip Lievsay, CAS, with its esteemed 2026 Career Achievement Award. The recognition will take place during the 62nd Annual CAS Awards on Saturday, March 7, 2026.
“The Career Achievement Award is the Society’s highest honor, and Skip’s work represents the pinnacle of our craft,” says CAS president Peter Kurland. “His artistry and creativity have shaped the sound of some of the most celebrated films of our time. Skip’s collaborations with visionary directors and his extraordinary ear for storytelling have left an indelible mark on the industry. It’s been my honor to have worked with Skip for several decades, including sharing previous CAS awards with him. I’m thrilled that the CAS Board has chosen him as the recipient.”
“I’m deeply honored to receive this recognition from the Cinema Audio Society,” says Lievsay. “Sound mixing is an intensely collaborative art, and I’ve had the great fortune to work with incredibly talented filmmakers, mixers and editors over my career. To be recognized by my peers, people whose work I deeply admire, means the world to me.”
Lievsay is one of the most acclaimed re-recording mixers in film history, with a career spanning more than four decades. He is an Academy Award winner for Gravity, and has received Oscar nominations for No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis and Roma, among others. A frequent collaborator of the Coen brothers, Alfonso Cuarón, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee, Lievsay has helped define the sonic worlds of modern cinema. His credits include Barton Fink, Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, The Silence of the Lambs and The Tragedy of Macbeth.
Past CAS Career Achievement Honorees including Tod A. Maitland, Joe Earle, Anna Behlmer, Willie Burton, Peter J. Devlin, Tom Fleischman, Les Fresholtz, Ed Greene, Tomlinson Holman, Doc Kane, William B. Kaplan, David MacMillan, Paul Massey, Scott Millan, Mike Minkler, Walter Murch, Andy Nelson, Chris Newman, Lee Orloff, Richard Portman, John Pritchett, Don Rogers, Gary Rydstrom, Dennis Sands, Randy Thom, Jim Webb, Jeffrey S. Wexler and Charles Wilborn. As previously announced, the CAS Awards will honor Academy Award–winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro with the prestigious Filmmaker Award at the ceremony.