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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