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Meet the New MPEG Officers and Board
Congratulations to the newly elected 2005 Guild Officers and Board of Directors!
On Monday, December 13, the Motion Picture Editors Guild membership cast final
ballots and the votes were tabulated. These newly elected Officers and Board
members will serve a three-year term beginning January 1, 2005.
An Installation Dinner will be held Saturday, January 8 in Marina del Rey to honor the new Officers and Board, and also to bid a fond adieu to members whose terms have come to an end. Guild President Lisa Zeno Churgin will present a commemorative gift of appreciation for dedicated service to outgoing Board members Dede Allen, Steven J. Cohen, Bruce Green, Scott A. Hecker, Laura H. Congleton, Karen Rasch and Michelle Davidson.
2005 OfficersPresident Lisa Zeno Churgin, ACE
Vice President Carol Littleton, ACE
2nd Vice President Martin Levenstein
Secretary Diane Adler, ACE
Treasurer Rachel B. Igel
Sergeant-at-Arms William (Bill) Elias
2005 Board of Directors (Newly Elected)
Editors
Alan Heim, ACE
Nancy Richardson, ACE
Billy Weber, ACE
Sound Editors
Jeff Burman
J. Paul Huntsman, MPSE
Re-Recording Mixers
Gregg Rudloff, CAS
Eastern Region
Louis Bertini
Dan Ward
Eastern Alternates
Harry Peck Bolles
Howard S. Suss
Assistant Editors
Paul Covington
Jessica Rubin
Engineers
Scott Young
Recordists
John Trask
At Large
John Beltaire Roesch
Beth Stiller
Sound Honor
 George Lucas |
The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) will present its inaugural Filmmaker’s Award to director/producer George Lucas for his outstanding contributions to the art of sound. The award will be presented at the 52nd Annual Golden Reel Awards, scheduled for Saturday, February 26, 2005, at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
The creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones is being recognized by the MPSE for his consistently innovative and groundbreaking use of sound technology in his films, and for the enormous contributions he has made to advancing the state of sound in the movie-going experience.
“The MPSE is very excited to present Mr. Lucas our first Filmmaker’s Award,” stated David Bondelevitch, MPSE president. “It is appropriate that the man who gave us Star Wars and THX sound will be the first person to receive the award. Many of our members are where they are because of what he has done for us both artistically and technically.”
“Sound is 50 percent of the movie-going experience, and I’ve always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies, at least as much as by what they see,” Lucas commented. “I’m honored by the MPSE’s decision to recognize my work with such a tremendous award.”
Two Lifetimers for ACE
 David Blewitt |
The American Cinema Editors (ACE) will honor veteran editors David Blewitt, ACE, and Jim Clark with the organization’s prestigious Lifetime Career Achievement Award at the 55th Annual ACE Eddie Awards on February 20, 2005, in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, it was announced by ACE President Alan Heim.
The Lifetime Career Achievement Award honors veteran editors whose body of work and reputation within the industry is outstanding.
Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Blewitt has conquered TV, film and documentaries with equal ease and success. Blewitt joined the David L. Wolper organization in 1962 as a film editor and two years later won an Emmy Award for co-editing The Making of a President. He also received an Oscar nomination for editing The Competition (1980). In addition to his Emmy and Oscar recognition, Blewitt has been nominated for the ACE Eddie Award for Outstanding Editing five times and has won twice.
 Jim Clark |
Academy Award-winning editor Clark has been nominated twice for the film industry’s highest kudos–the first time in 1984 for The Killing Fields and then for The Mission in 1986, both of which he edited for director Roland Joffe. He collaborated five times with director John Schlesinger: on Darling (1965), The Day Of The Locust (1975), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), Marathon Man (1976) and Yanks (1979). Among his many other credits, he also edited Mike Leigh’s critically acclaimed Vera Drake, in theatres now.