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24 W I N T E R 2 0 1 8 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y Cinema Audio Society to introduce and present the Edward J. Greene Award for the Advancement of Sound to The Cinema Audio Society has announced that a new award has been created in memory of Edward J. Greene CAS. The award will be called the Edward J. Greene Award for the Advancement of Sound and will be presented when the Board feels it is merited. This inaugural award will be presented to previous CAS Career Achievement recipient and AMPAS Technical Achievement Award winner Tomlinson Holman CAS, creator of THX. "The passing of Ed Greene had a profound effect on the CAS and sound community at large. The Board of Directors and the former Presidents wanted a meaningful way to honor Ed's memory. So this award in Ed's name, to acknowledge the Advancement of Sound, was created," said CAS President Mark Ulano. "Presenting this inaugural award to Tomlinson Holman who has contributed so much to the sound community in both cinema and broadcast is the perfect representation of who and what this award represents." Holman is exceptionally proud to receive an award named for a man he knew well and respected, Ed Greene. Ed let Tom stick his head above Ed's during a SAG Awards and an Academy Awards rehearsal, and it was a highlight of Tom's audio experience to see such a master at his craft. Born in Oregon, Illinois, Tom walked to Saturday- morning movie serials for 25 cents admission. As a prototypical "science kid," his mother made several trips to the principal's office because Tom kept sneaking into the auditorium after hours to hang lights and do sound checks. At the University of Illinois, he began concentrating on sound during after-school activities in the theater department. His undergraduate film partner was director Andrew (Andy) Davis. After graduation, he stayed on at the university for five years in its film production unit reading practically everything published about audio (impossible today). After a devastating fire, Tom got the post department up and running again. He eventually bought a Nagra recorder and started doing projects, usually at the request of Andy, who ultimately asked him to come to Hollywood to work on a Blaxploitation feature, Cool Breeze, as a boom operator for first-time recordist Jeff Wexler CAS. Studying the Nagra schematics (which he thought he had to understand as a soundman) he found many unusual things, an inspiration for later on to "Think Different." b y D o r o t h e a S a r g e n t TOMLINSON HOLMAN CAS