The CAS 2007 Career Achievement Award Recipient

The Board of The Cinema Audio Society was proud to that Dennis Sands, CAS was the Career Achievement Award recipient for 2007. Sands, a Los Angeles native now living in Santa Barbara, has been working as a Scoring and Re-recording mixer for 37 years. Sands is a USC graduate who began his mixing career at MGM Recording Studios in 1971 under the tutelage of Ed Greene, CAS, who was chief engineer at the time. Sands was co-owner of Group IV Recording Studios from 1977 until 1988. He is now working freelance at his own studio, ".1 Studio," in Santa Barbara, CA, as well as recording orchestras at many of the remaining large scoring stages around the world.

Sands’ track record encompasses greats from the music, television and film disciplines. Music credits include numerous jazz albums for Norman Grant, including artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Joe Pass and Oscar Peterson. Television mixing credits include the episodics Hill Street Blues, Dallas and Chips, and variety shows including Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme (which garnered Sands the Emmy Award for Best Sound), Liza Minelli, Carol Burnett and more. Film mixing credits include On Golden Pond, Tootsie and The Shawshank Redemption. For the past several years Sands has concentrated his efforts on film scoring. Many composers, including Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri, and Mark Isham, make use of Sands’ artistic sensibilities. Sands has been nominated for four Academy Awards and three CAS Awards, winning a CAS Award for his contribution to Forrest Gump in 1995.

CAS honored Dennis Sands at the Cinema Audio Society Awards Ceremony. The gala was held at the Millennium Biltmore’s Crystal Ballroom on February 16, 2008.

Dennis Sands, C.A.S. The 2008 C.A.S. Career Achievement Honoree.