Academy Award for Best Sound | |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
First awarded | 1930 |
Most recent winner | Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn The Zone of Interest (2023) |
Website | oscars |
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 for Hello, Dolly! . [1] It is generally awarded to the production sound mixers, re-recording mixers, and supervising sound editors of the winning film. In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Before the 93rd Academy Awards, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories. [2]
For the second and third years of this category (i.e., the 4th Academy Awards and the 5th Academy Awards) only the names of the film companies were listed. Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department won in both years.
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† = includes special achievement awards
Finalists for Best Sound are selected by the Sound Branch. Sound Branch members shall vote in order of their preference for not more than ten pictures to be considered for the Sound award. The ten motion pictures receiving the highest number of votes shall advance to the next round of voting. [6]
Year | Finalists | Ref |
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1967 | Casino Royale , El Dorado , Guess Who's Coming to Dinner , In Cold Blood , Sofi | [7] |
1968 | Blackbeard's Ghost , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , Head , Hell in the Pacific , The Lion in Winter , The Odd Couple , The Shoes of the Fisherman , 2001: A Space Odyssey , Yours, Mine and Ours | [8] |
1969 | Downhill Racer , Paint Your Wagon , The Reivers , The Secret of Santa Vittoria , The Wild Bunch | [9] |
1970 | Cromwell , The Great White Hope , The Hawaiians , Little Big Man , Scrooge | [10] |
1971 | A Clockwork Orange , Dirty Harry , The Last Picture Show , Le Mans , Shaft | [11] |
1972 | Avanti! , Deliverance , Lady Sings the Blues , Man of La Mancha , Pete 'n' Tillie | [12] |
1973 | Dillinger , Oklahoma Crude , The Seven-Ups , The Way We Were , Westworld | [13] |
1974 | Airport 1975 , The Front Page , The Godfather Part II , The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , Zandy's Bride | [14] |
1975 | Barry Lyndon , Lucky Lady , Nashville , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , The Sunshine Boys | [15] |
1976 | Logan's Run , Midway , Network , The Omen , Silent Movie | [16] |
1977 | Black Sunday , Julia , Looking for Mr. Goodbar , MacArthur , Rollercoaster | [17] |
1978 | The Boys from Brazil , Grease , The Lord of the Rings , Midnight Express , An Unmarried Woman | [18] |
1979 | All That Jazz , The Black Hole , The China Syndrome , Rocky II , Star Trek: The Motion Picture | [19] |
1981 | Sound Effects Editing: Dragonslayer , Heaven's Gate , Reds , Sharky's Machine , Sphinx , Stripes , Superman II , Time Bandits , Wolfen | [20] |
2021 | Last Night in Soho , The Matrix Resurrections , A Quiet Place Part II , Spider-Man: No Way Home , Tick, Tick...Boom! | [21] |
2022 | Babylon , Black Panther: Wakanda Forever , Everything Everywhere All at Once , Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio , Moonage Daydream | [22] |
2023 | Barbie , Ferrari , The Killer , Killers of the Flower Moon , Napoleon | [23] |
2024 | Alien: Romulus , Blitz, Deadpool & Wolverine , Gladiator II , Joker: Folie à Deux | [24] |
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