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2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Achievement in Sound
Weekly Commentary: In the highly competitive sound category, “Oppenheimer” production sound mixer Willie D. Burton could become the first Black person to win three Oscars in the category, an historic achievement. A victory for “Oppenheimer” would also grant Universal Pictures its 10th statue,...
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2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Achievement in Sound
Weekly Commentary: In the highly competitive sound category, “Oppenheimer” production sound mixer Willie D. Burton could become the first Black person to win three Oscars in the category, an historic achievement. A victory for “Oppenheimer” would also grant Universal Pictures its 10th statue,...
- 3/7/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The 70th annual Golden Reel Awards were handed out on Sunday night, honoring the best achievements in sound editing across film, television, video games and student work.
The top three film awards were handed to “Top Gun: Maverick,” “The Banshees Of Inisherin” and “Elvis” which won for feature effects/foley, feature dialogue/Adr and feature music respectively. All three films are also nominated for the top prize, best picture at the 95th Academy Awards which will be handed out on March 12.
Other winners included “Moonage Daydream,” “Good Night Oppy” and “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.”
The ceremony was opened by an address from Motion Pictures Sound Editors president Mark Lanza. “Sound editors play a crucial role in bringing films, television shows, and games to life,” he said. “This year, we have seen truly incredible sound editing. From the explosive action of blockbusters to the subtle nuances of character-driven dramas, sound...
The top three film awards were handed to “Top Gun: Maverick,” “The Banshees Of Inisherin” and “Elvis” which won for feature effects/foley, feature dialogue/Adr and feature music respectively. All three films are also nominated for the top prize, best picture at the 95th Academy Awards which will be handed out on March 12.
Other winners included “Moonage Daydream,” “Good Night Oppy” and “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.”
The ceremony was opened by an address from Motion Pictures Sound Editors president Mark Lanza. “Sound editors play a crucial role in bringing films, television shows, and games to life,” he said. “This year, we have seen truly incredible sound editing. From the explosive action of blockbusters to the subtle nuances of character-driven dramas, sound...
- 2/27/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Ahead of the 2021 Oscars, the academy made the decision to merge the Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing categories into one. The films vying for the second annual Best Sound prize are “Belfast,” “Dune,” “No Time to Die,” “The Power of the Dog,” and “West Side Story.” Our current odds indicate that “Dune” (31/10) will be victorious, followed in order of likelihood by “West Side Story” (39/10), “No Time to Die” (4/1), “The Power of the Dog” (9/2), and “Belfast” (9/2).
The craftspeople included in the current lineup have collectively amassed a staggering 86 previous nominations and 16 wins for their sound work in 57 films. Those responsible for the largest chunks are Andy Nelson and Gary Rydstrom, whose shared bid for “West Side Story” brings their respective individual totals to 22 and 19. Rydstrom has collected seven trophies over the years, including two each for “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1992), “Jurassic Park” (1994), and “Saving Private Ryan” (1999) and one for...
The craftspeople included in the current lineup have collectively amassed a staggering 86 previous nominations and 16 wins for their sound work in 57 films. Those responsible for the largest chunks are Andy Nelson and Gary Rydstrom, whose shared bid for “West Side Story” brings their respective individual totals to 22 and 19. Rydstrom has collected seven trophies over the years, including two each for “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1992), “Jurassic Park” (1994), and “Saving Private Ryan” (1999) and one for...
- 3/23/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Updated March 21: “Dune” got two big boosts with Mpse and Cas wins, bolstering its Oscar chances on Sunday. The sci-fi epic took feature effects/foley at the virtual 69th annual Mpse Golden Reel Awards on March 13, and then live-action sound mixing at the 58th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.
Updated February 11: The sound Oscar nominees — “Belfast” (Focus Features), “Dune” (Warner Bros.), “No Time to Die” (MGM/UA), “West Side Story” (20th Century/Disney), and “The Power of the Dog” (Netflix) — provide a range of imaginative soundscapes that connect to the personal stories in fresh ways.
However, the sonic power and complexity of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” is going to be hard to beat. Its great achievement is creating a grounded reality that is both innovative and believable. So, rather than relying on over-hyped sounds, the sound team conveyed an otherworldly palette that is hallucinatory yet gritty,...
Updated February 11: The sound Oscar nominees — “Belfast” (Focus Features), “Dune” (Warner Bros.), “No Time to Die” (MGM/UA), “West Side Story” (20th Century/Disney), and “The Power of the Dog” (Netflix) — provide a range of imaginative soundscapes that connect to the personal stories in fresh ways.
However, the sonic power and complexity of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” is going to be hard to beat. Its great achievement is creating a grounded reality that is both innovative and believable. So, rather than relying on over-hyped sounds, the sound team conveyed an otherworldly palette that is hallucinatory yet gritty,...
- 3/22/2022
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Belfast writer-director-producer Ken Branagh, actor Ciarán Hinds and sound supervisor Simon Chase – all Oscar nominated – spoke with us at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event about the acclaimed film’s journey to screen.
Based on Branagh’s own experiences growing up in Northern Ireland, the Focus Features movie follows a young boy and his working-class family as they experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
“It’s not a story I had been planning for a long time, but it is one I had been feeling for a long time,” Branagh said. “The necessity to tell the story and understand about that time of change in Belfast was accelerated by the lockdown and the uncertainty it produced…What in times of turmoil can you understand.”
Music supervisor Simon Chase and Branagh discussed the film’s potent music (Van Morrison is a big part of the sound) and the scene-stealing moment Jamie Dornan...
Based on Branagh’s own experiences growing up in Northern Ireland, the Focus Features movie follows a young boy and his working-class family as they experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
“It’s not a story I had been planning for a long time, but it is one I had been feeling for a long time,” Branagh said. “The necessity to tell the story and understand about that time of change in Belfast was accelerated by the lockdown and the uncertainty it produced…What in times of turmoil can you understand.”
Music supervisor Simon Chase and Branagh discussed the film’s potent music (Van Morrison is a big part of the sound) and the scene-stealing moment Jamie Dornan...
- 3/5/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Contenders Film: The Nominees, a one-stop-shop experience featuring a smörgåsbord of Oscar-nominated talent discussing their top-tier projects, kicks off Saturday beginning at 8 a.m. Pt as a virtual event, the latest in Deadline’s rapidly expanding Contenders series. Stars, creatives and craftspeople behind 24 films will take part in moderated panels discussing the roads that led them to the doorstep of the Academy Awards.
To sign up for and watch the livestream, click here.
If we’ve found a little silver lining to this Covid situation, it’s that it inspired us to stream our Contenders events since the earliest days of the pandemic. And we’ve not only reached a global audience in the comfort of their own homes, but we’ve also found a brave new world in which we screen chats with talent who couldn’t have made it to the stage in person anyway due to their schedules.
To sign up for and watch the livestream, click here.
If we’ve found a little silver lining to this Covid situation, it’s that it inspired us to stream our Contenders events since the earliest days of the pandemic. And we’ve not only reached a global audience in the comfort of their own homes, but we’ve also found a brave new world in which we screen chats with talent who couldn’t have made it to the stage in person anyway due to their schedules.
- 3/5/2022
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” is very much anchored in the filmmaker’s childhood memories and a sense of nostalgia. Loosely based on his own experiences, the film opens in color in modern-day Ireland before audiences are transported back to Belfast, 1969, where a quiet residential area explodes as a mob shatters the tranquility and “the troubles” begin.
The sounds of the community were key for Mpse Golden Reel nominee James Mather (Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Effects/Foley ), who served as the film’s sound supervisor. “We start with this modern-day city, and from that moment we were introducing sounds that felt very relevant and resonant,” he says. When the sequence transitions to black and white, Mather says Branagh wanted there to be the sound of the joy of childhood. “It was the sound of freedom, liberty, joy and innocence. I wanted the audience to feel that they were being brought into an almost-perfect world,...
The sounds of the community were key for Mpse Golden Reel nominee James Mather (Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Effects/Foley ), who served as the film’s sound supervisor. “We start with this modern-day city, and from that moment we were introducing sounds that felt very relevant and resonant,” he says. When the sequence transitions to black and white, Mather says Branagh wanted there to be the sound of the joy of childhood. “It was the sound of freedom, liberty, joy and innocence. I wanted the audience to feel that they were being brought into an almost-perfect world,...
- 1/24/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
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2022 Oscars Predictions:
Best Sound
Updated: Dec 27, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: Ten films remain in the running for best achievement in sound.
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Oscars Collective
Visit each category, per the individual awards show from The Oscars Hub
Revisit the prediction archive of the 2021 season The Archive
Link to television awards is atTHE Emmys Hub
2022 Oscars Predictions:
Best Sound
Updated: Dec 27, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: Ten films remain in the running for best achievement in sound.
- 12/27/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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