{"id":7811,"date":"2009-11-18T18:58:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T02:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=7811"},"modified":"2009-11-18T18:58:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T02:58:46","slug":"video-burtt-receives-charles-s-swartz-award-from-abrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/11\/video-burtt-receives-charles-s-swartz-award-from-abrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Burtt Receives Charles S. Swartz Award From Abrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a ceremony in Los Angeles last week, <strong>Ben Burtt<\/strong>, legendary <em>Star Trek <\/em>and <em>Star Wars<\/em> sound designer, received the Charles S. Swartz Award from the Hollywood Post Alliance, which honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of post production. <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong> presented the award to Mr. Burtt.<\/p>\n<p>Burtt&#8217;s film production career spanned thirty-five years, and included films such as <em>Star Trek XI, WALL-E<\/em>, the <em>Indiana Jones<\/em> franchise, <em>E.T.<\/em> and various <em>Star Wars <\/em>episodes. Burtt&#8217;s skills include: directing, producing, sound design, sound editing, editing, voicing and voice design in both motion pictures and television.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The video shows Burtt receiving the award from Abrams. &#8220;This gentlemen ended up one of my heroes,&#8221; said Abrams. &#8220;I first heard of Ben Burtt when in the eighties I saw a documentary about the making of <em>Star Wars<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He became a hero of mine personally, not just as a fan, when we were working on <em>Star Trek <\/em>and we had a mix of the film and there were an amazing array of incredibly talented people working on the film. And we had a mix and the truth was that the mix, just for some reason, wasn&#8217;t working. And so&#8230;I asked if Ben Burtt might be available just to give us some perspective. And amazingly, he was, for this period of time. And I called Mr. Burtt and it was a like a rock star on the phone for me. And I got on the phone and I was nervous, and I was like so excited talking to Ben Burtt&#8230;And he was so kind and so nice and said he would come down and watch the film which he did.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams went on to explain what advice Burtt gave him when he came down and saw the film and how to fix the problem. &#8220;Ben Burtt came in,&#8221; said Abrams, and he salvaged it [<em>Star Trek XI<\/em>]. And I realized that this man really does have visionary ears.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"504\" height=\"284\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7670851&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"504\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7670851&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/7670851\">Ben Burtt Receives Charles S. Swartz Award from JJ Abrams<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/colemanfilm\">Michael Coleman<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a ceremony in Los Angeles last week, Ben Burtt, legendary Star Trek and Star&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[2407,2934],"class_list":["post-7811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-abrams","tag-burtt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7813,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions\/7813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}