CATEGORY: ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
INTERVIEW WITH: SCOTT MILLAN, DAVID PARKER, KIRK FRANCIS
FILM: "THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM"
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Q. Hi, guys. Congratulations.
A. Thank you.
Q. Now, two of you are in uniform and one of you is not, correct?
A. Yeah.
Q. So I'm wondering did you had to have won before?
A. Not personally.
Q. So did you get any advice on what to expect? Were you briefed on this experience from your partners?
A. Not really, no. Not really, no. I got two BAFTAs before, so I was impressed across the pond. And it's all very nice and I thank everyone concerned.
Q. Can you hear me now? I'm the Verizon man. This must have been one of the most rapid fire sound editing jobs. Can you talk about the process of coordinating with the film editing and
A. We are the mixers, you know, and we know a lot about it. We know all about it.
A. This particular company has a very compressed schedule, and you are right. We had all categories of postproduction were under tremendous time pressure concerns: music, sound editorial, picture editorial, and mixing.
We are kind of at the end of that pipeline and, of course, as each of those other disciplines were quickly trying to accomplish their goals, it made our time even shorter. It was a challenge but a great group of people. And everybody around us on this particular project, you couldn't have asked to be in the trenches with anybody more as part of this group.
Q. Congratulations. Could you comment on your categories as a whole this year including Kevin O'Connell and others? And also, can you tell us about the lei on your Oscar.
A. Well, it's my crew. I'm working on a movie now, and my crew is so happy to kno that I might be getting one of these and they gave me a miniature Oscar with a lei on it and I brought it and here it is. Aloha.
Q. Hi. We briefly talked about it, but I wanted to find out what that Hawaii lei was about.
A. That was just it.
Q. Oh. Thanks.
Q. Hi. Last year the winners in this category showed no mercy for Kevin O'Connell. Do you have anything to say or do you understand why he's not (unintelligible) anymore.
A. Kevin is an esteemed colleague of ours and what he's accomplished is a pretty amazing task. And I think, in general, our community is very supportive of one another, and I'm sure Kevin's work speaks for itself. So we are very supportive.
A. You asked us to comment on the other films this year. I think No Country is interesting that they turned the music off and that impressed us, and I think Hitchcock did it once in The Birds. I was impressed by that.
Q. Thank you and congratulations.
A. Thank you.
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