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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y I W I N T E R 2 0 2 3 39 Cinema Audio Society to Honor Alejandro González Iñárritu with Filmmaker Award at 59th Annual CAS Awards, March 4, 2023 Alejandro González Iñárritu will receive the Cinema Audio Society's Filmmaker of the Year honor at the 59th CAS Awards on Saturday, March 4, at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown hotel. "It is an honor to name director Alejandro González Iñárritu as recipient of the prestigious 2023 CAS Filmmaker Award. His sobering portrayals of the human experience bring empathy and consciousness to perspectives often left untold and unconsidered," said CAS President Karol Urban. "No doubt drawing on his history in music, his films experiment and utilize sound—uniquely embracing its capacity to emotionally engulf the viewer." Upon hearing the news that he was to receive the CAS honor, Mr. Iñárritu said, "Being singled out as a filmmaker by With Tom Hardy on The Revenant. my colleagues in the Cinema Audio Society is a great honor. I have had the pleasure of collaborating with some of the most gifted sound designers in the industry and truly cannot emphasize the importance of the work they do in creating a fully sensorial experience for audiences when watching a film." The CAS Filmmaker Award celebrates filmmakers who demonstrate a collaboration with sound that becomes essential in the expression of powerful narratives. Mr. Iñárritu cites his humble respect for other filmmakers who he also feels use sound in this manner, by saying, "I like how Jonathan Glazer, Paul Thomas Anderson, and the Coen brothers use sound. They use sound combined with their scores as an incredible storytelling powerful device with great balance, harmony, and subtlety." With Brad Pitt on Babel