24 Audible Productions Named as Finalists for 2016 Audie Awards®
February 10 2016 - 09:00AM
Business Wire
Richard Armitage, John Malkovich, Alfred
Molina, Haley Joel Osment, Tatiana Maslany, Kate Mulgrew, Rose
Leslie and David Tennant all among annual industry prize
finalists
Audible.com’s two production arms, Audible Studios and ACX,
received 24 nominations for the 2016 Audie Awards, which honor
outstanding audiobooks and other spoken-word performances. Audible
has finalists in twelve different categories. Winners will be
announced by the Audio Publishers Association at the Audies Gala on
May 11, 2016, in Chicago.
“We are thrilled that so many of our high-quality productions
have been recognized this year,” said Audible EVP and Publisher
Beth Anderson. “We are particularly proud that three Audible titles
have been named as finalists in the “Original Work” category for
the third year in a row. Four of our titles were named as finalists
in the “Audio Drama” category. Both of these categories continue to
offer rich opportunities for us to expand the range of listening
experiences to deliver to our customers.”
Among the highlights of this year’s Audie finalists for
Audible:
- Academy Award and Golden Globe
Award-nominated actor John Malkovich’s spellbinding performance of
Kurt Vonnegut’s classic satire, Breakfast of Champions, in the
“Best Male Narrator” category.
- Bestselling author Jeffery Deaver’s The
Starling Project, an original production performed by Alfred Molina
and a full cast, and featuring state-of-the-art sound design and an
original music score, in the “Audio Drama” category.
- Locke & Key, an audio dramatization
of the critically acclaimed graphic novel series written by Joe
Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez and performed by a cast of over 50 voice
actors including Tatiana Maslany, Haley Joel Osment, and Kate
Mulgrew, in the “Original Work” category.
- Emmy Award-winner Charles Olivier’s
dramatization of the Christmas Truce during World War 1, Christmas
Eve 1914, produced to commemorate the event’s centennial
anniversary, in the “Audio Drama” category.
- Stage and screen actor Richard
Armitage’s swoon-worthy performance of Classic Love Poems in the
“Best Male Narrator” category.
- People’s Choice Award-winning actor
David Tennant and Screen Actors Guild Awards-nominated actress Rose
Leslie, along with a full cast, for their performance of an audio
adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic gothic novella,
Carmilla, in the “Original Work” category.
- All five nominees in the “Erotica”
category are produced by Audible Studios and ACX
Audible invented and commercialized the first digital audio
player in 1997, and has since been at the forefront of the
explosively growing audiobook download segment. In 2015, listeners
around the world downloaded 1.6 billion hours of audio from
Audible.com outlets; Audible members downloaded an average of more
than 17 books over the course of the year. Two thirds of new
Audible members are first-time audiobook buyers. With Audible
Studios and ACX, Audible.com is the largest producer of audiobooks
in the world.
Audible is the preeminent provider of downloadable audiobooks to
Apple’s iTunes store, which means that customers can access these
finalists as well as tens of thousands of other premium audio
titles at iTunes.
The Audio Publishers Association’s release, along with a
complete list of nominees, can be found here:
http://www.theaudies.com/
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio information and entertainment on the Internet, offering
customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives every day.
Audible was created to unleash the emotive music in language and
the habituating power and utility of verbal expression. Audible
content includes more than 250,000 audio programs from leading
audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and
newspaper publishers, and business information providers. Audible
is also the preeminent provider of spoken-word audio products for
Apple’s iTunes® Store.
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Audible.comEsther Bochner, 973-820-0781bochnere@audible.com
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