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Skip Lievsay is a New York-based supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer and sound designer for film and television. Lievsay has worked with filmmakers and directors, including the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman. In January 2007, he received two Academy Award nominations—for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing—for his work on Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men. In 2011, he was nominated in the same categories for the film True Grit. His most recent film credits include The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Inside Llewyn Davis and Gravity. Lievsay won the 2014 Academy Award in Best Sound Mixing for Gravity and was nominated in the same category for Inside Llewyn Davis.

Film Forum, sponsored by the Filmmaking Program in the College of the Arts, is a weekly program for MSU students and the public. The program features contemporary filmmakers who come to speak about their work and profession in an open forum that invites audience members to ask questions and hear personalized inside stories from some of the most innovative filmmakers in the region. Admission is free and the full season runs throughout the academic year.