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    Cinema Audio Society to honor Phillip W. Palmer with Career Achievement Award

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    The Cinema Audio Society will honor Emmy Award-winning production sound mixer Phillip W. Palmer CAS with its 2027 Career Achievement Award. This recognition will be presented during the 63rd Annual CAS Awards on Saturday, March 6, 2027, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

    “The Career Achievement Award is the Society’s highest honor, and Phillip’s decades of work behind the microphone represent the best of what our craft can be,” said Peter Kurland, CAS president. “From the stage at Glee to the tension of Better Call Saul, Phillip’s ear for clarity and nuance has shaped some of the most acclaimed sound work in television. His service to this Society, and to Local 695, reflects a career built on generosity as much as talent. I’m thrilled that the CAS Board has chosen him as this year’s recipient.”

    “I’m deeply honored to receive this recognition from the Cinema Audio Society,” said Palmer. “This career started with me working my way up from utility and boom operator, and every step since has been shaped by the people I’ve worked alongside. To be recognized by this community, people I respect enormously, means the world to me.”

    Palmer is one of television’s most accomplished production sound mixers, with a career spanning nearly four decades. Beginning as a sound utility and boom operator in 1988, Palmer became a production sound mixer in 1999 and has since become a fixture on some of the industry’s most celebrated series. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for his work on Glee and earned a CAS Award for his work on “Saul Gone,” the series finale of Better Call Saul, a show that brought him numerous Emmy and CAS Award nominations throughout its run. His credits also include The Old Man, Entourage, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, El Camino and Pluribus.

    Beyond his work on set, Palmer has been a dedicated advocate for the sound community. He currently serves as treasurer of IATSE Local 695, a former VP of the Cinema Audio Society and governor of the Sound Mixers Peer Group of the Television Academy, roles that reflect his longstanding commitment to the craft and the professionals who practice it.

    Palmer joins an illustrious group of past CAS Career Achievement Honorees including Skip Lievsay, Tod A. Maitland, Joe Earle, Anna Behlmer, Willie Burton, Peter J. Devlin, Tom Fleischman, Les Fresholtz, Ed Greene, Tomlinson Holman, Doc Kane, William B. Kaplan, David MacMillan, Paul Massey, Scott Millan, Mike Minkler, Walter Murch, Andy Nelson, Chris Newman, Lee Orloff, Richard Portman, John Pritchett, Don Rogers, Gary Rydstrom, Dennis Sands, Randy Thom, Jim Webb, Jeffrey S. Wexler and Charles Wilborn.

    The recipient of the CAS Filmmaker Award will be announced at a later date.

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    William Dafoe, Jonathan Bailey and Peter Dinklage join the voice cast for Starburn Industries’ “Lincoln in the Bardo”

    Friday, August 28, 2026
    Peter Dinklage (photo by Whitney Matewe)

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