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Steve Carell and Greg Kinnear presenting Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman the Oscar® for Sound Editing for "Letters from Iwo Jima" at the 79th Academy Awards...
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I’m backstage right now and we’re all firing up our laptops, making sure our connections work, and of course, eating the spread they put out for the press. We’re watching the Road to the Oscarpre-show and getting ready for the moment when the first person joins us in the interview room.
Here we go! The show begins with a series of interview clips with the nominees. Quite cute. Alan Arkin says, “Losing builds character.”
Ellen DeGeneres takes to the stage in a velvet tux. “We’re celebrating the nominees’most years we just celebrate the winners.” “Most people have a dream of winning an Academy Award. I dreamed of hosting. So it’s a lesson for you kids out there: aim lower.” “I think I see some Americans here tonight: the seat fillers.” “It’s not that we don’t have t...
Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig are presenting tonight’s first award, Art Direction. And the Oscar goes to Eugenio Caballero and Pilar Revuelta for Pan’s Labyrinth.
Maggie Gyllenhaalstrolls out to say the she recently had a date with magicians, as she was the host of the Academy’s Science and Technical Awards. She discusses the night’s winners.
Will Ferrell sings “A comedian at the Oscars, the saddest man of all.” He’s joined in the song by Jack Black. They discuss how they’ll beat up the nominees, except for Mark Wahlbergwho’s pretty tough. John C. Riley then joins the song.
The trio then present the award for Best Makeup. And the Oscar goes to Pan’s Labyrinth’s David Marti and Montse Ribe. The pair get played off.
Ellen is gossiping backstage with a crew member. She introduces Abigail Breslin and Jaden Smith. The young twosome are presenting the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. And the Oscar goes to The Danish Poet’s Torill Kove. She thanks the Academy for supporting the animated short category.
Ellen gives a shout out to the orchestra. She then introduces a “sound effects choir” who add foley to scenes playing behind them.
Steve Carell and Greg Kinnear are out next. “Sound editing is like sex. Done at night, all alone and surrounded by elecronic gadgets.” 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 wa...
The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2006 and took place February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.
- 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.
Alan Robert Murray (July 30, 1954 – February 24, 2021) was an American sound editor. Murray was nominated for ten Academy Awards. In 2007, Murray won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for his work on Letters from Iwo Jima (2005). [1]
This is a list of movies that won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing categories have been merged into one ''Best Sound'' category.
