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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.
Sound Mixing - Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen U
Oscars – Sound Mixing. Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) How many different sounds can you identify in this scene? A more than deserved win for Gregg Rudloff, Chris Jenkins, and Ben Osmo.
- Dunkirk (2017) Dunkirk - Sound Mixing. Because war movies usually demand multiple sounds firing at the same time, the quality of the mixing is generally more noticed.
- Inception (2010) Inception - Oscar winner for Best Sound Mixing. The layered sounds of Inception are almost as complicated as the layered dream world in the film.
- The Matrix (1999) The Matrix - Bullet Dodge Sound Mixing. Sound team, John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell, and David Lee were the brains behind some of the best “bullet sounds” to ever hit Hollywood.
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The Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing or recording, and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film.
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.
The official name of the award has changed several times over the years:
•1929 — 1957: Best Sound Recording
•1958 — 2002: Best Sound
•2003 — present: Best Sound Mixing
1920s
3rd Academy Awards (1929/30)
Winner The Big House — Douglas Shearer
Nominees The Case of Sergeant Grischa — John Tribby — Franklin Hansen — Oscar Lagerstrom — George Groves
1930s
•1930/31 — 1931/32: No award given to specific films.
Feb 29, 2016 · This is the first Academy Award nomination for Production Sound Mixer Ben Osmo. Watch the videos “Mad Max: Fury Road Wins 2016 Best Sound Mixing” and “Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo’s Thank You Cam Speech.”. View the complete list of Oscar winners for 2016 at oscar.go.com.
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Individuals and films that have been awarded the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
