The Oscar winning sound designer Resul Pookutty won prestigious American Motion Picture Sound Editors’ (MPSE) Golden Reel Award. Resul Pookutty has won the best sound for documentary “India’s Daughter” directed by Leslee Udwin. This movie is based on the Delhi gangrape incident of December 2012. Government has banned public screening airing of the documentary. With this, he becomes the 1st Asian to win coveted award from Motion Picture Sound Editors’ (MPSE) of United States for the best sound.
About the Resul Pookutty:
- Resul Pookutty is a film sound designer, sound editor & mixer working in Hollywood, Hindi cinema, Malayalam Cinema & Tamil cinema.
- Resul is an alumnus of the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. In 2009, he along with Richard Pryke & Ian Tapp had won the Academy Awards (Oscar) for best sound mixing for the film “Slumdog Millionaire”.
- He also was awarded National Film Award for the Best Audiography (2010), Padma Shri (2010).
About the Golden Reel Award:
- The Golden Reel Award has been instituted by the MPSE.
- It recognises excellence in an array of sound editing achievement, sound effects and foley to dialogue & score integration & ADR to music.
Resul Pookutty becomes 1st Asian to win Prestigious Golden Reel Award
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