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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.
Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners. Individuals and films that have been awarded the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
* Sound Mixing - Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek * Visual Effects - Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke * Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, & Peter Jackson
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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.
The Academy Award for Best Sound is a yearly award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award is for best sound mixing, editing, recording and sound design.
Jan 2, 2023 · Movies that require a ton of sounds in a single scene, (music, explosions, even unique ways to capture silence), demand a kind of precision and artistry not always appreciated by the typical movie-goer. This post ranks the Academy Award winners for Best Sound Mixing from the last 20 years.
Films that have been awarded Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Pages in category "Films that won the Best Sound Mixing Academy Award" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . 0–9. 1917 (2019 film) A. The Alamo (1960 film)
