The Movement Image Sound Editors stated right this moment that Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer Dane A. Davis will obtain its 2024 Profession Achievement Award throughout its 71st annual Golden Reel Awards in March.
Davis is understood for his Oscar profitable work on The Matrix, and for his inventive contributions to that movie’s sequels and scores of different movies and tv exhibits.
“Along with his work on The Matrix, Dane Davis set a brand new commonplace for learn how to use sound to create worlds, add influence to tales, and arouse the feelings of the viewers,” stated MPSE President Mark Lanza. “Since then, he has continued to innovate throughout options, animation, tv, and different mediums. We’re excited to acknowledge his distinctive accomplishments with our annual Profession Achievement Award.”
Davis has been a sound designer and sound editor for greater than 40 years with over 180 movie, tv, and sport credit. Alongside together with his Oscar for The Matrix, he has received 4 MPSE Golden Reel Awards together with 9 further nominations, in addition to a BAFTA Award, and two Emmy Award nominations. A frequent collaborator of the Wachowski sisters, he has supervised sound for all of the movies within the Matrix collection, concluding with Matrix Resurrections in 2021, in addition to Pace Racer, Sense8, Sure, and Jupiter Ascending. Different latest supervision credit embrace Reptile, Expats, Retribution, Allen v Farrow, Jupiter’s Legacy, Messiah, The Day the Earth Stood Nonetheless, 8-Mile and Ender’s Recreation. He additionally contributed sound design to 24 movies together with Black Adam final 12 months.
His earlier credit embrace Defending Your Life, Cabin within the Woods, Ghost Rider, Gotti, Drugstore Cowboy, Invoice & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Endlessly Younger, Romeo Is Bleeding, and Boogie Nights. He’s additionally an completed voiceover actor, together with the character Morph in Treasure Planet and The Animatrix.
Davis additionally based and helmed Danetracks, an organization that produced extremely inventive sound for a variety of tasks and mentored many younger individuals into careers in post-production audio by way of its internship program.
The MPSE Profession Achievement Award acknowledges sound artists who’ve distinguished themselves by meritorious works as a person and fellow contributor to the artwork of sound for characteristic movie, tv, and gaming, and for setting an instance of excellence for others. Previous winners embrace 2023 recipient Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Anthony “Stylish” Ciccolini, III, Dennis Drummond, Cece Corridor, Stephen H. Flick, John Paul Fasal, Harry Cohen, Richard King, Skip Lievsay, Randy Thom, Larry Singer, Walter Murch, and George Watters II.
The 71st annual Golden Reel Awards will happen Sunday, March 3 on the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.
