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* Sound Editing - Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman Directing - Clint Eastwood Best Picture - Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers Writing (Original Screenplay) - Screenplay by Iris Yamashita; Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis
The 79th Academy Awards | 2007. Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. Sunday, February 25, 2007. Honoring movies released in 2006. Share Facebook Twitter. Highlights.
Films and individuals that have won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.
Feb 21, 2007 · Sound editor Lon Bender, who nabbed an Academy Award a decade ago for Braveheart is nominated this year for his work on Blood Diamond.
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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
These are the results of the 79th Annual Academy Awards presentations. Oscar winners are highlighted in bold and marked with an Oscar logo. Films with production notes are linked in blue.
Feb 25, 2007 · They are, obviously, presenting the awards for Sound Editing. This is quite a new twist as usually we’ve had one acting award by now. And the Oscar goes to Letters From Iwo Jima ’s Alan Robert Murray, whose father was an Iwo Jima survivor.
