Eduardo Angel Visuals

Academy Awards for Sound.

After attend­ing the talk “Sound: the Other Half of Your Video” last week at the Vimeo Fest in New York City, I have been think­ing a lot about sound. And more specif­i­cally about how impor­tant is music, in movies and our lives. It is shock­ing how lit­tle we know about the processes, peo­ple and effort to cre­ate the sounds that drive our emo­tions. The guy who cre­ated the music for Inception’s trailer was there, and he con­firmed that our igno­rance regard­ing sound design is pretty much the same as with direc­tors of pho­tog­ra­phy, the peo­ple who actu­ally make the movies look they way they do.

The Acad­emy Award of Merit for Best Sound Edit­ing is granted yearly to a film exhibit­ing the finest or most aes­thetic sound edit­ing or sound design. The award is usu­ally received by the Super­vis­ing Sound Edi­tors of the film, per­haps accom­pa­nied by the Sound Designers.

This is the list of films that have won or been nom­i­nated for an Acad­emy Award for Best Sound Effects (1963–1967, 1975), Sound Effects Edit­ing (1977, 1981–1999), or Sound Edit­ing (1979, 2000–present). Happy Friday.

• 2000: U-571 – Jon John­son
  • Space Cow­boys – Bub Asman and Alan Robert Murray

• 2001: Pearl Har­bor – George Wat­ters, Christo­pher Boyes
  • Mon­sters, Inc. – Gary Ryd­strom, Michael Silvers

• 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Tow­ers – Michael Hop­kins and Ethan Van der Ryn
  • Minor­ity Report – Richard Hymns and Gary Ryd­strom
  • Road to Perdi­tion – Scott Hecker

• 2003: Mas­ter and Com­man­der: The Far Side of the World – Richard King
  • Find­ing Nemo – Gary Ryd­strom and Michael Silvers
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl – Christo­pher Boyes and George Watters

• 2004: The Incred­i­bles – Michael Sil­vers and Randy Thom
  • The Polar Express – Den­nis Leonard and Randy Thom
  • Spider-Man 2 – Paul Ottosson

• 2005: King Kong – Mike Hop­kins and Ethan Van der Ryn
  • War of the Worlds – Richard King
  • Mem­oirs of a Geisha – Wylie State­man

• 2006:^[1] Let­ters from Iwo Jima – Bub Asman and Alan Robert Mur­ray
  • Apoc­a­lypto – Kami Asgar and Sean Mccormack
  • Blood Dia­mond – Lon Bender
  • Flags of Our Fathers – Alan Robert Mur­ray, Bub Asman
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – Christo­pher Boyes and George Watters

• 2007: The Bourne Ulti­ma­tum – Karen Baker Lan­ders and Per Hall­berg
  • No Coun­try for Old Men – Skip Lievsay
  • Rata­touille – Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
  • There Will Be Blood – Christo­pher Scara­bo­sio and Matthew Wood
  • Trans­form­ers – Mike Hop­kins and Ethan Van der Ryn

• 2008: The Dark Knight – Richard King
  • Iron Man – Frank Eul­ner and Christo­pher Boyes
  • Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire – Tom Sayers
  • WALL-E – Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
  • Wanted – Wylie State­man

• 2009: The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottos­son
  • Avatar – Christo­pher Boyes and Gwen­dolyn Yates Whittle
  • Inglou­ri­ous Bas­terds – Wylie State­man
  • Star Trek – Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
  • Up – Michael Sil­vers and Tom Myers

• 2010: Incep­tion – Richard King
  • Toy Story 3 – Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
  • Tron: Legacy – Gwen­dolyn Yates Whit­tle and Addi­son Teague
  • True Grit – Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
  • Unstop­pable – Mark P. Stoeckinger

• 2011: Hugo – Eugene Gearty and Philip Stock­ton
  • Drive – Lon Ben­der and Vic­tor Ray Ennis
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tat­too – Ren Klyce
  • Trans­form­ers: Dark of the Moon – Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
  • War Horse – Richard Hymns and Gary Ryd­strom