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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.
Mar 3, 2014 · Warner Bros. Pictures’ suspenseful thriller Gravity, directed by 2014 Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, captured both 2014 Oscar Sound Awards at the 86th Academy Awards, held Sunday, March 2, 2014, at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood and broadcast on the ABC network in a 3-hour, 11-minute telecast.
Individuals and films that have been awarded the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Sound Editing - Wylie Stateman Sound Mixing - Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow
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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.
Oscar Winning Films For Best Sound. Beginning With The 93rd Academy Awards, Best Sound Editing Was Combined With Best Sound Mixing Into A Single Award For Best Sound. List activity
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Apr 29, 2020 · Sound Gets No Respect, But Combining Its Two Oscar Categories Makes Sense. Sound design is woefully underappreciated, but the Academy's new Best Sound category is a better reflection of...
