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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y F A L L 2 0 1 7 21 Darkest Hour director Joe Wright will receive the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award at the 54th Annual CAS Awards on February 24, at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles. "I am delighted to announce Joe Wright as the CAS Filmmaker honoree for our 54th CAS Awards. The CAS recognized Joe's commitment to sound when we nominated his film Hanna for Outstanding Sound Mixing—Motion Picture," said CAS President Mark Ulano. "His current film Darkest Hour, with an amazing performance by Gary Oldman, also exhibits Joe's passion for all the crafts involved in filmmaking. With the director as conductor, Joe knows how to get the best out of every instrument in the filmmaking orchestra, which makes him an excellent choice for Filmmaker." Born to a family of puppeteers, Joe Wright grew up in the theatre his parents founded, "The Little Angel Theatre" in Islington, London. Wright studied fine art, film, and video at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. After college, he worked on music videos and short films until 1997, when he was commissioned to direct Nature Boy, a four- part miniseries for BBC2. Nature Boy was awarded Best Drama Serial by the Royal Television Society. This was followed by several other highly acclaimed, nominated and awarded miniseries, including Bob & Rose, written by Russell T. Davies; Bodily Harm, starring Timothy Spall, George Cole, and Lesley Manville; and Charles II for BBC1, starring Rufus Sewell, which won the BAFTA for Best Drama Serial. Wright made his feature film directorial debut in 2005 with Pride & Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Rosamund Pike, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, and Carey Mulligan (in her first screen appearance). The critically acclaimed film won Wright BAFTA's Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in Their First Feature Film. He was also honored with the London Critics' Circle Film Award for British Director of the Year and the Boston Society of Film Critics' Award for Best New Filmmaker. Pride & Prejudice was nominated for five additional BAFTAs, four Academy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Atonement Pride & Prejudice Darkest Hour