Production Sound Mixer Dennis Maitland, CAS received the Cinema Audio Society's highest accolade, the CAS Career Achievement Award, presented at the 45th CAS Awards on February 14th, 2009 in the Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.

Dennis Maitland, CAS The 2009 CAS Career Achievement Honoree.

Additionally, director/writer/producer/actor Paul Mazursky received the CAS Filmmaker Award.

In keeping with the synergy of the three previous CAS Filmmaker and Career Achievement recipients, Maitland and Mazursky both have distinguished individual careers which have overlapped on many projects resulting in wonderful collaborations on several films including An Unmarried Woman, Tempest, Willie And Phil And Moscow On The Hudson.

Maitland has worked on more than 80 feature films including the critically acclaimed: The Prince Of Tides, Moonstruck, Prizzi's Honor, ...And Justice For All, Lenny, The Pawnbroker, and Three Days Of The Condor to name a few. His television credits include "The Honeymooners", "Playhouse 90", "The Sunshine Boys", "The Ed Sullivan Show", "The Jackie Gleason Show" and many more.

As a music mixer, Maitland has worked with Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, The Beatles, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, the New York, Boston, Berlin, Philadelphia and Montreal Philharmonic Orchestras. On Broadway, Mailtand was the sound designer for Prisoner of Second Avenue.

Maitland has been a leader in the use of SR Dolby, R-Dat, A-Dat, live production and multi-track. He is credited with introducing wireless mics to feature films in the early fifties.

As the 27th recipient of the Cinema Audio Society's highest honor, Mr. Maitland joins an illustrious group of past honorees that include: Ray Dolby, Robert Altman, Jack Solomon, John Bonner, Bill Varney, Don Rogers, Walter Murch, Jim Webb, Richard Portman, Tomlinson Holman, Mike Minkler, Ed Greene and Dennis Sands.