Best Foreign Voice Criteria
December 8, 2007
The Best Foreign Voice Award honors a male or female voice actors who have been working full-time in voice over as a professional for three or more years.
Criteria:
- Voice actor may self-nominate or be nominated by a voice over coach, colleague or client
- A recent sample of their voice or voice over work must be hosted on their Voices.com website
- Has studied for a period of time with a voice over coach or has attended multiple workshops for voice acting
- Must be a native speaker of a language other than American English or Canadian English. Talent who were born outside of the US or Canada but now reside in either country are eligible to enter. Those born of parents who immigrated to either Canada or the US who grew up speaking the native tongue and dialect of their parents are also eligible.
- Each voice actor needs to have a professional headshot or graphical image representative of themselves or of their work to be used for promotion on Voices.com web properties and complementary voice over sites
Adam Behr is a great international VO artist. He did a perfect British accent on a TV ad for a “little Black dress” sold to Americans (and others) from London.
The ad was smart and clever, and very effective, thanks to the intentional pseudo-sophisticated” voice Adam did!
Larry Block
Nominee: Adam Behr
We have requested Adam to voice a majority of our projects at Deloitte. He has quickly become the favorite of most of our clients not only for his amazing talent but also his incredible professionalism. He is an absolute joy to work with, very pro-active and reliable in providing us with high quality deliverables each and every time we have requested his services. Since we are a global company it is important for us to have a voice that is not clearly British or American. Adam does a great job of providing us with a voice that doesn’t have a clearly identifiable accent, which makes it more inclusive for a global audience.
We look forward to continuing our work with Adam in future projects and couldn’t think of anyone that deserves recognition more than he.
Best regards,
Karen Frankola
I recently worked with Adam Behr on a small video game project and the experience was fantastic. He delivered top-quality VO assets in a timely manner, while working remotely. We spoke on the phone several times regarding direction and it was a pleasure dealing with him. I highly recommend him to other producers.
I’m writing to comment on Adam Behr. Adam Contributed to a short film I made called “A Toothbrush Scorned”, about inanimate objects tried of being used and bent on world domination. Adam provided no less than 2 amazing voices: a Middle Eastern Alarm Clock and a Spanish Blue Exercise Ball. Not only were the voices vibrant and original, but they added a whole new level of depth and authenticity to the project. His accents were spot on. I approached Adam as a film school grad working on a project with almost no budget. I was blown away by his generosity. He not only provided me the voices at no charge, he was willing to take direction from a relative newbie. And for that I am grateful. I could hear the enthusiasm in his voice as he did take after take, continually readjusting his performance to get it just right. In my opinion, Adam Behr certainly deserves to be nominated for, and win, the “Best Foreign Voice of the Year” Award.