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    Lupita Nyong’o still basking in glow of 2014 Oscar win

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    Lupita Nyong'o arrives at the premiere of "The Jungle Book" at the El Capitan Theatre on Monday, April 4, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

    By Nicole Evatt

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    Lupita Nyong'o's career has moved well along since her Academy Award two years ago, yet she's still basking in the glow of her Oscar win.

    "I never expected to win in the first place, so I didn't have any expectations as to what life would look like after that, but I'm happy. I'm a really happy person. I love my life," said Nyong'o at the world premiere of "The Jungle Book" this week in Los Angeles.

    Nyong'o, who won best supporting actress in 2014 for "12 Years a Slave," currently stars in Broadway's "Eclipsed" and is back on set for "Star Wars: Episode VIII."

    "I sleep whenever I can. I get massages and acupuncture and I eat well," said Nyong'o of surviving her busy schedule. "I plan what I eat a week in advance and then I don't have to worry about it on a day-to-day basis."

    Nyong'o voices Raksha, Mowgli's adoptive wolf mother in Jon Favreau's live-action remake of "The Jungle Book," in theaters April 15.

    "I channeled my own mother who is fierce and unwavering in her motherly ways," she said of the role. "I just think as a woman, I think we all have it somewhere in us and it was about finding it."

    Up next, she'll reprise her role in the highly anticipated "Episode VIII," but in true Star Wars fashion, Nyong'o remained tight-lipped about the project.

    "It's really cool," she said of working with the franchise's newest director, Rian Johnson. "The adventure continues you know and it's never a dull moment on that set."

    "Episode VIII" is slated for a December 2017 release.

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    Cinema Audio Society unveils inaugural Jeffrey S. Wexler Award for Advancement in Sound Technology

    Thursday, February 12, 2026
    Jeffrey S. Wexler CAS

    The Cinema Audio Society has announced the inaugural Jeffrey S. Wexler Award for Advancement in Sound Technology. The annual award honors individuals, companies or products whose innovations have significantly improved existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they have materially changed how sound is recorded, edited, mixed or delivered.

    This year’s award will honor achievements in non-linear technology for sound recording, editing and mixing. Recipients will be honored at the CAS Awards on March 7 at the Beverly Hilton.

    Recipients of the 2026 Jeffrey S. Wexler Award for Advancement in Sound Technology are:

    --Evan Brooks, cofounded Digidrums with Peter Gotcher in 1983, and the company was incorporated in 1984 as Digidesign, Inc. He developed the audio editing software package Sound Designer, and then Sound Tools, the first affordable, professional digital audio workstation, paving the way for the introduction and success of Pro Tools.
    --Peter Gotcher, cofounded Digidesign with Evan Brooks and served as its president, CEO, and chairman. Digidesign became the world’s leading manufacturer of digital audio workstations. After Digidesign was acquired by Avid in January of 1995, he remained as executive VP of Avid until 1996. He currently serves as chairman of Dolby Laboratories.
    --Glen Sanders, founder and president of Zaxcom. In the 1990s, he worked closely with Zaxcom’s engineering team to develop the Deva portable digital audio disk recorder, the first multitrack, file-based recording system designed for location sound.
    --Howard Stark, chief engineer at Zaxcom. Stark made enduring contributions to the design and development of professional audio technologies used throughout film and television production. He... Read More

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