Yes it won the high profile categories of Best Picture, Director and Cinematography, but the majority of Titanic's eleven Academy Awards went to the technical teams behind James Cameron's £200 million epic, whose cutting edge technology so convincingly simulated the sinking ship.  Cameron's sound unit, picking up the Oscar for Achievement in Sound, included production mixer Mark Ulano, who used Audio Ltd's radio mics for his wireless requirements on sound dialogue.

In a backstage interview, after receiving the award, the unit were asked what was the most challenging scene to record: They replied: "The waterfall on top of the staircase, because there was such an enormous amount of preparation time and a lot of concern for something you could do only once.

After working on the film, Ulano commented that, "This job would have been impossible to do without the UHF Dx2000 true diversity rack system.  A 900 ft ship is an extreme environment for RF but the performance of the Dx2000 wireless system was truly remarkable".

"I am totally sold on the system!"

Titanic gave Ulano his first nomination from the Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences, while the rest of the team, comprising Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson and Gary Summers, have had 14 nominations between them.

Besides Titanic, Ulano also recorded Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, Austin Powers and The Pest last year, all using Audio Ltd's diversity systems.

The nominations for the 1998 Golden Globe Awards include several films whose production sound mixers used Audio Ltd. radio mics for recording.  In the "Motion Picture - Drama category soundmen on Titanic (Mark Ulano) , The Boxer (Kieran Horgan), Steven Spielberg's Amistad (Ronald Judkins) and In & Out (Danny Michael), all used Audio's RMS2000 diversity systems for their wireless requirements.

The list also includes A Thousand Acres (Richard Lightstone), who has recently converted to Audio's diversity systems, plus Tomorrow Never Dies (Chris Munro) and Seven Years in Tibet (Ken Weston).  Two British films are up for awards - The Full Monty and Mrs. Brown - both recorded by production mixers Alistair Crocker using Audio Ltd. equipment.