Skywalker’s supervising sound editor Elliott is one of two women nominated for best sound. Greyhound, News of the World, Soul and Sound of Metal were also nominated for the BAFTA Awards’ combined sound category.įor Mank, Kylce is nominated alongside Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin and for Soul, alongside Coya Elliott and David Parker.
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This year, all five nominees previously received at least one nomination from the Motion Picture Sound Editors, for its Golden Reel Awards in sound editing and the Cinema Audio Society Awards for sound mixing. Django Unchained, on the other hand, has very few other options to take home a trophy, and there is an immense respect within Hollywood for Tarantino, who hasn't won since 1994's Pulp Fiction - which is why we expect to see him win this one.With the Motion Picture Academy introducing a new best sound category this year - combining the prior sound editing and sound mixing categories - its Oscar nominees are Greyhound, Mank, News of the World, Soul and Sound of Metal.Ī notable number of recent winners of the sound editing and sound mixing Oscars had been the same films, a point often cited when the Academy voted to combine these categories.
#Best sound mixing oscar movie#
But that movie is all but guaranteed a win for Best Foreign Language Film (and a possible upset victory for Best Actress nominee Emmanuelle Riva).
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Will win: The controversy surrounding the alleged accuracy of Mark Boal's fact-based script for Zero Dark Thirty has greatly slowed that film's momentum in this category, and in its place, several pundits have pointed to Michael Haneke's spare and unsparing writing for Amour as the nominee to beat. Who you want to win here comes down to which script you think best exemplifies fresh and distinctive storytelling, and for us, that is Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola's delightful and surprisingly emotional script for Moonrise Kingdom. Should win: All five of these films benefit from their respective screenplay's strong dialogue and smart twists on their separate subject matter: aging and dying, American slavery, addiction and guilt, young love and adult regret, and the modern war on extreme Islamic terrorism. Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola We like its chances the most.įorgetting for the moment that Looper was robbed of a nomination in this category, who wins here really comes down to how much the Academy values old people. But with 11 nominations, Life of Pi clearly has won over a broad swath of Academy voters already, and, as we mentioned before, the film is a feast of evocative sounds. Other years, the Best Picture winner takes home the prize in a general sweep, which would likely mean Argo's revolutionary tumult would take home the Oscar. Will win: Some years, this category goes to the biggest (or loudest) blockbuster, in which case Skyfall's various gun blasts and martini swizzles win the big prize. Just listen to the scene above knowing that almost everything you hear, save for actor Suraj Sharma's voice, had to be recorded and/or created later.
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Should win: The soundscape of a movie is often just as important, and sophisticated, as what you see on screen, and no film made a bigger impact on our ears than Life of Pi. Skyfall, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers Life of Pi, Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
#Best sound mixing oscar series#
For the category previously called Best Sound Effects and Best Sound Effects Editing, one of these days the Academy will hit upon a name that makes plain what it's meant to celebrate: all the various sounds that you hear over the course of the film, whether they were recorded during the shoot itself, recorded later by a series of Foley artists, or created whole cloth in a studio.