Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
| Academy Award for Best Sound Editing | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| First awarded | 1963 |
| Currently held by |
Sylvain Bellemare Arrival (2016) |
| Website |
oscars |
The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound design or sound editing. Sound editing is the creation of sound effects (such as foley). The award is usually received by the Supervising Sound Editors of the film, perhaps accompanied by the Sound Designers.
The sound branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), 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.[1]
During certain years, the highest award given for this category may be a "Special Achievement Award", not an Oscar. Academy rules require that a minimum number of films must be nominated in a category for an Academy Award to be granted; when the number of qualifying nominees is insufficient, a Special Achievement Award is granted instead.
This is a list of films that have won or been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Effects (1963–67, 1975), Sound Effects Editing (1977, 1981–99), or Sound Editing (1979, 2000–present). See Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for a corresponding list of winners for Best Sound.
Superlatives
- Ben Burtt, Charles L. Campbell, Per Hallberg, Richard Hymns, Richard King and Gary Rydstrom have received the most wins (3), including Special Achievement Awards.
- Wylie Stateman has the most nominations without a single win. He has been nominated seven times as of 2016.
- Richard Hymns and Alan Robert Murray have the most nominations (9).
Multiple wins and nominations
Note: Ben Burtt and Stephen Hunter Flick both have Special Achievement wins, which they are the only two to receive special achievements in this category to also win at least one competing as well. They have been included with their win and nomination count. Only sound editor to date to have a Special achievement win and has an Oscar nomination in but not to win a competing Oscar in this category is Richard L. Anderson.
Multiple winners
3:
2:
- Bub Asman
- Karen Baker Landers
- Christopher Boyes
- Mike Hopkins
- Stephen Hunter Flick†
- Alan Robert Murray
- Paul N. J. Ottosson
- George Watters II
- Ethan Van der Ryn
Multiple nominations
9:
8:
7:
6:
5:
4:
3:
2:
- Erik Aadahl
- Karen Baker Landers
- Tom Bellfort
- Gloria Borders
- Robert Bratton
- Brent Burge
- Glenn Freemantle
- Eugene Gearty
- Cecelia Hall
- Robert G. Henderson
- Martin Hernández
- Ren Klyce
- Skip Lievsay
- Tom Myers
- Walter Rossi
- Philip Stockton
- Oliver Tarney
- Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
† = includes special achievement wins.
Winners and nominees
1960s
1970s
| Year | Film | Sound editor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 (43rd) | ||
| No award given | ||
| 1971 (44th) | ||
| No award given | ||
| 1972 (45th) | ||
| No award given | ||
| 1973 (46th) | ||
| No award given | ||
| 1974 (47th) | ||
| No award given | ||
| 1975 (48th) | ||
| The Hindenburg† | Peter Berkos | |
| 1976 (49th) | ||
| No award given | ||
| 1977 (50th) | ||
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind† | Frank Warner | |
| 1978 (51st) | ||
| No award given | ||
| 1979 (52nd) | ||
| The Black Stallion† | Alan Splet | |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
- †The award was a Special Achievement Award instead of a competitive award.
See also
- BAFTA Award for Best Sound
- BAFTA Award for Best Editing
- Academy Award for Best Film Editing
- Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Sound
References
- ↑ "79th Oscar Rules, Approved by Academy" (Press release). AMPAS. 2006-06-30. Archived from the original on 2008-02-20.
