2012 MPSE Golden Reel Awards Results

The best in Sound Editing.

The Motion Picture Sound Editors have just celebrated the 59th annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites in Los Angeles. Acknowledging the year’s best work in the various areas of sound editing – Dialogue & ADR, Effects & Foley, and Music – the awards are a big indication of who will take out an Academy Award in a week’s time. You can read the list of nominees and winners below. Winners are highlighted in BOLD.

BEST SOUND EFFECTS AND FOLEY IN A FEATURE FILM
Drive
Fast Five
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Super 8
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
War Horse

BEST DIALOGUE AND ADR IN A FEATURE FILM
Abduction
The Help
Moneyball
Quarantine II: Terminal
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Super 8
War Horse
The Way

BEST MUSIC IN A MUSICAL FEATURE FILM
Footloose
The Muppets
Perfect Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Pina

BEST MUSIC IN A FEATURE FILM
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hop
Hugo
Priest
Super 8
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The Tree of Life

BEST SOUND EDITING IN A FEATURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1920. The World’s Most Important Battle
Circumstance
The Flowers of War
In the Land of Blood and Honey
Sarah’s Key
The Skin I Live In
Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within)

BEST SOUND EDITING IN A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
Cave of the Forgotten Dreams
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Lemmy
Pearl Jam Twenty

BEST SOUND EDITING IN AN ANIMATION FEATURE FILM
The Adventures of Tintin
Cars 2
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango
Rio
The Smurfs

MPSE FILMMAKER AWARD
Gale Anne Hurd

MPSE CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
George Watters II


FOR NON-FILM CATEGORIES:

BEST SOUND & MUSIC EDITING: LONG FORM DOCUMENTARY IN TELEVISION
Gettysburg

BEST SOUND EDITING: ANIMATION IN TELEVISION
The Penguins of Madagascar: The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole

BEST SOUND & MUSIC EDITING: SHORT FORM DOCUMENTARY IN TELEVISION
Man Made, Bugatti Super Car

BEST SOUND EDITING: LONG FORM MUSIC IN TELEVISION
Magic Beyond Words – The JK Rowling Story

BEST SOUND EDITING: LONG FORM DIALOGUE & ADR IN TELEVISION
Homeland, “Marine One”

BEST SOUND EDITING: LONG FORM SOUND FX / FOLEY IN TELEVISION
The Walking Dead, “What Lies Ahead”

BEST SOUND EDITING: SHORT FORM MUSICAL IN TELEVISION
Grey’s Anatomy, “The Song Beneath the Song”

BEST SOUND EDITING: SHORT FORM MUSIC IN TELEVISION
Raising Hope, “Prodigy”

BEST SOUND EDITING: SHORT FORM DIALOGUE & ADR IN TELEVISION
Game of Thrones, “Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things”

BEST SOUND EDITING: SHORT FORM SOUND FX / FOLEY IN TELEVISION
Game of Thrones, “Winter is Coming”

VERNA FIELDS AWARD IN SOUND EDITING FOR STUDENT FILMMAKERS
The Pride of Wade Ellison

BEST SOUND & MUSIC EDITING: COMPUTER EPISODIC ENTERTAINMENT
Aim High

BEST SOUND EDITING: COMPUTER INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Need for Speed ‘The Run’

BEST SOUND EDITING: DIRECT TO VIDEO – LIVE ACTION
Love

BEST SOUND EDITING: DIRECT TO VIDEO – ANIMATION
Megamind: The Button of Doom

BEST SOUND EDITING: SPECIAL VENUE
Rocky Mountain Express

 

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