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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, the first of which were Murray Spivack and Jack Solomon ...
Individuals and films that have been awarded the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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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.
Lovely Jessica Biel and lucky James McAvoy are presenting the award for sound mixing. But you don’t really care, because you’re just staring at Jessica. And the Oscar goes to Dreamgirls’s Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton. Two of the three get their thanks in before the music swells.
Oscars 2007: The nominees. Here is the full shortlist for the 79th Academy Awards, to be held at the Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles on 25 February: Best picture. Babel. The Departed. Letters From...
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The nominees for the 79th Academy Awards were announced on January 23, 2007, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Sid Ganis, president of the Academy, and the actress Salma Hayek. Dreamgirls received the most nominations with eight, and Babel came in second with seven.
