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- ↑ "Nominees & Winners for the 72nd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . AMPAS. Archived from the original on August 6, 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
- ↑ "The Art of Sound Design", Designing Sound, retrieved March 17, 2014.
