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40 F A L L 2 0 1 9 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y In 1979, he mixed his first commercial feature film, Jonathan Demme's Melvin and Howard, and in 1981, he and Dick Vorisek were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound for their work on Warren Beatty's Reds. While at Trans/Audio, he also first worked for Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, doing temp dubs on Raging Bull and then joining Dick Vorisek on the mixing of The King of Comedy. This began a career-long collaboration with Scorsese which continues to this day. In 1985, Tom moved to Sound One where he continued to develop long- term working relationships with many other great directors, including Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, John Sayles, David Frankel, Oliver Stone, and Ron Howard, and earned four more Academy Award nomina- tions for Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), and Hugo (2012), for which he also won the Oscar and the British Academy BAFTA Award. For his work in television, Tom has won Emmy Awards in 2006 for Outstanding Sound Mixing on Scorsese's docu- mentary Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, and two Emmys in 2012 for the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire and Alex Gibney's Showtime documen- tary History of the Eagles. Tom's most recent projects include Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, in-depth documentaries on the life of Elvis Presley, the history of Rolling Stone magazine, the rock-climbing documentary Free Solo for Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, Scorsese's Rolling Thunder Revue, and Scorsese's The Irishman. Tom lives in Nyack, NY, on the banks of the Hudson River, a few miles north of New York City with Priscilla, his bride of 39 years. They have three grown children and four grandchildren. In addition to his professional career in sound, Tom is also a former captain in the Nyack volunteer fire department, of which he is a lifetime member. He is also an instrument-rated private pilot (retired), past president of the Westchester Flying Club, plays and collects acoustic guitars, and plays competitive chess. Fleischman joins an illustrious group of past CAS Career Achievement honorees that includes Lee Orloff, Anna Behlmer, John Pritchett, Doc Kane, David Macmillan, Andy Nelson, Chris Newman, Scott Millan, Jeffrey S. Wexler, Randy Thom, Dennis Sands, Ed Greene, Mike Minkler, Willie Burton, Gary Rydstrom, Charles Wilborn, Jim Webb, Richard Portman, Tomlinson Holman, Les Fresholtz, Walter Murch, and Don Rogers. • Clockwise from top left: Goodfellas, The Silence of the Lambs, BlacKkKlansman, History of the Eagles, Boardwalk Empire, and Philadelphia. Tom Fleischman was born and raised in New York City, the son of legendary film editor Dede Allen and television documentary writer/producer/director Stephen Fleischman. Although Tom began his career in 1969 as an apprentice film editor, it was not until he went to work for Image Sound Studios in 1971 that he became truly interested in sound. At Image Sound, he began by cataloging and creating a sound effects library and recording sound effects and Foley. In 1973, Tom joined Trans/Audio Inc. where he worked in the transfer department and was given the opportunity to begin mixing under the tutelage of the well-respected New York re-recording mixer Richard Vorisek.