Sir Christopher Edward Nolan is a British and American filmmaker. Known for his Hollywood blockbusters with complex storytelling, he is considered a leading filmmaker of the 21st century. Nolan's films have earned over $6 billion worldwide, making him the seventh-highest-grossing film director of all time. His accolades include two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two British Academy Film Awards. Nolan was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2019, and received a knighthood in 2024 for his contributions to film.
Lee Smith, ACE, is an Australian film editor who has worked in the film industry since the 1980s. He began his film career as a sound editor before establishing himself as an editor. His breakthrough came when he began collaborating with director Peter Weir. Smith is best known for his work on several of Christopher Nolan's films, including Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Interstellar (2014) and Dunkirk (2017), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Dame Emma Thomas, Lady Nolan, is a British film producer. She has produced all of the feature films directed by her husband Sir Christopher Nolan, which have grossed more than $6 billion worldwide and are regarded as some of the greatest films of their respective decades.
Syncopy Inc. is a British-American film production company founded and operated by Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan. The name of the company is a play on syncopation and was suggested to Nolan by his late father, who was a classical music fan. It has offices in London and Los Angeles.
John Papsidera is a casting director based in Los Angeles, California, known for his work across film and television, especially his work with some of the industry’s most successful directors, including Christopher Nolan, Ruben Fleischer, Jason Reitman, Roland Emmerich, and James Gunn. He has received sixteen Artios Awards nominations and has won four times. He has also been nominated for seven Primetime Emmy awards and has won twice.
Gary Rizzo is an American re-recording mixer. He studied audio engineering at Full Sail University and works at Lucasfilm's Skywalker Sound. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound Mixing and has been nominated for another three. He has worked on more than 200 films since 1994.
Paul N. J. Ottosson is a Swedish sound designer. The recipient of numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, he has worked on more than 130 films since 1995.
Nathan Crowley is an English production designer and a former art director, who is best known for his collaborations with Christopher Nolan. He has been nominated six times for an Academy Award for Best Production Design for The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), First Man (2018), and Tenet (2020).
Andrew Lockley is a British visual effects supervisor most known for working on most of Christopher Nolan's films.
Alex Gibson is an American music and sound editor, known for his work on films including Transformers, The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road, Interstellar, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Terminator Genisys, Justice League, and Dunkirk, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at 90th Academy Awards. His other awards include a Primetime Emmy Award in 2008 for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special for the HBO miniseries John Adams, as well as a Grammy Award in 2009 for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for The Dark Knight. As a result, he is only one Tony Award away from an EGOT.
Christopher Nolan is a British-American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature directorial debut was the neo-noir crime thriller Following (1998) which was made on a budget of $6,000. Two years later, he directed the psychological thriller Memento (2000) which starred Guy Pearce as a man suffering from anterograde amnesia searching for his wife's killer. Similar to his debut feature it had a non-linear narrative structure, and was his breakthrough film. It was acclaimed by critics and was a surprise commercial success. For the film Nolan received his first nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, and for writing its screenplay he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He next directed the mystery thriller remake Insomnia (2002) which starred Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank. It was his first film for Warner Bros., and was a critical and commercial success.
The Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film is an annual award given by the Motion Picture Sound Editors. It honors sound editors whose work has warranted merit in the field of theater; in this case, their work in the field of automated dialogue replacement, or ADR. It was first awarded in 1964, for films released the previous year, under the title Best Sound Editing – Loop Lines. The following year, the award was re-titled Best Sound Editing – Dialogue, and would remain this until 1984, before being changed to Best Sound Editing – ADR. In 1991, the "dialogue" and "ADR" aspects of the process were divided into separate categories and would, intermittently, be awarded for the next seven years, before combining again in 1998, under the title Best Sound Editing – Dialogue & ADR. The award has been given with its current title since 2018.
The Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR for Animated Feature Film is an annual award given by the Motion Picture Sound Editors. It honors sound editors whose work has warranted merit in the field of cinema; in this case, their work in the field of animated film.
Christopher Nolan is a British-American filmmaker known for using aesthetics, themes and cinematic techniques that are recognisable in his work. Regarded as an auteur filmmaker, Nolan is partial to elliptical editing, documentary-style lighting, hand-held camera work, natural settings, and real filming locations over studio work. Embedded narratives and crosscutting between different time frames is a major component of his work, and his films often feature experimental soundscapes and mathematically-inspired images and concepts. Nolan prefers shooting on film to digital video and advocates for the use of higher-quality, larger-format film stock. He favours practical effects over computer-generated imagery, and is a proponent of theatrical exhibition.
The Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film is an annual award given by the Motion Picture Sound Editors. It honors sound editors whose work has warranted merit in the field of cinema; in this case, their work in the field of sound effects and Foley. It was first awarded in 1954, for films released the previous year, under the title Best Sound Editing - Feature Film. In 1964 the award was split in two, this to honor sound effects editing, while the other honored ADR. It wasn't until 1974 that the title specified that it was being awarded to sound effects, under the title Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects. The "Foley" of the title wasn't recognized until 1997. Between then and 2018, the category's title fluctuated between similar variations. The award has been given under its current title since 2018.
The Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR for Foreign Language Feature Film is an annual award given by the Motion Picture Sound Editors. It honors sound editors whose work has warranted merit in the field of cinema; in this case, their work in the field of non-English language film. It was first awarded in 1983, for films released the previous year, but was separated into two categories: Best Sound Editing - Foreign Feature - Dialogue and Best Sound Editing - Foreign Feature - Sound Effects This was amended in 1985, when ADR and sound effects were combined for the category Best Sound Editing - Foreign Feature. It was not until 2018, when this award was first given under its current title, that this category awarded, exclusively, non-English language films. Previously, the award was given to either foreign language films and/or English language films produced outside of the United States.
Donald Sylvester is an American sound editor who has worked on over 100 films. He is best known for his work with James Mangold on the films Ford v Ferrari (2019), Logan (2017), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and Walk the Line (2005). Sylvester won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at the 92nd Academy Awards for Ford v Ferrari and BAFTA Award for Best Sound at the 59th British Academy Film Awards for Walk the Line. He has been a member of BAFTA since 2007.
The Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Music Score and Musical for Episodic Long Form Broadcast Media is an annual award given by the Motion Picture Sound Editors. It honors sound editors whose work has warranted merit in the field of television; in this case, their work in the field of music editing in television. The awards title has gone through many incarnations since its inception, but its focus has been on honoring exemplary work of music editors. The term "long form" was added to the category in 2002, as long form television had been awarded under both the category titled Best Sound Editing – Television Movies of the Week – Music, and Best Sound Editing – Television Episodic – Music, or some moniker of them, since 1997. The award has been given with its current title since 2018.
John Roesch is an American Foley artist. Roesch is the head Foley artist at Lucasfilm's Skywalker Ranch.
The 71st Golden Reel Awards, presented by the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE), honored the best in sound editing for film, television, video games, and student film in 2023. The ceremony was held on March 3, 2024, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.
