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The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing. The award used to go to the studio sound departments until a rule change in 1969 said it should be awarded to the specific technicians.
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- Mad Max: Fury Road (2016 Oscars) “Mad Max is a film we see with our ears” Above you can hear how sound editors, Mark Mangini and David White added so much richness and texture to the post apocalyptic world of Mad Max: Fury Road, for a well-deserved win.
- Arrival (2017 Oscars) The making of Heptapod communication. Sylvain Bellemare wins the Sound Editing Oscar for much more than alien noises. The sound team hiked up a mountain in New Zealand for three days just to record native New Zealand birds.
- Dunkirk (2018 Oscars) Oscar winning sound. Richard King is no amateur to sound design or being an Academy Award winner. Inception, The Dark Knight, and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, all won him an Oscar for Best Sound Editing.
- Inception (2011 Oscars) Oscar winner for Best Sound Editing. Listen to how Richard King and his sound team Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, and Ed Novick, work with Christopher Nolan to create a layered, dynamic soundscape, nearly as intricate as the story world itself.
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The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound editing or sound design. The award is usually received by the Supervising Sound Editors of the film, perhaps accompanied by the Sound Designers. The award was added in 1963 at the 36th Academy Awards.
The Sound Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, until 2006 would use a "bake-off" of the best films from the previous year to decide which films should be referred to the full Academy as nominations for the award. In a rule change on June 30, 2006, the bake-off for the Sound Branch was eliminated, and the usual process of a "preferential ballot" submission was instituted.
•1963 - 1967: The category was named Best Sound Effects
•1964 - 1974: No award was given
1970s
•1975: The category was name Best Sound Effects
•1976: No Award was given
•1977: The category was called Best Sound Effects Editing
The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2009 and took place on March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.
Films and individuals that have won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.
