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Contender – Supervising Sound Editor Shannon Mills, Pirates of the Caribbean:...

On any franchise it gets tough to “keep it fresh” when it comes to sound. On the fourth installment of Walt Disney Pictures’ Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, three-time winner and nine-time...

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Contender – Supervising Sound Editor Eric Aadahl, Argo

Sometimes sound design starts with research, according to Erik Aadahl, supervising sound editor and sound designer for Argo. He offered, "Authenticity is so important in a film like this based on true...

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Contender – Sound Mixer Drew Kunin, Life Of Pi

For production sound mixer Drew Kunin, working on director Ang Lee's Life Of Pi was anything but business as usual.

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Contender – Sound Editor Eugene Gearty, Life Of Pi

Sound design on director Ang Lee’s Life Of Pi required a tremendous amount of ocean sounds for a major part of the movie that takes place aboard small life boat adrift in the Pacific ocean. The epic...

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Contender – Sound Mixer Michael Semanick, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Everyone is talking about shooting the new Peter Jackson film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 48 frames per second – as opposed to the normal 24 fps – and what the doubled frame rate does to...

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Contender – Composer Dan Romer, Beasts of the Southern Wild

One of the more unusual soundtracks from this year’s crop of Oscar contender films comes from a relative newcomer, Dan Romer, who co-composed the score for the movie Beasts of the Southern Wild with...

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Contender – Sound Editor Brent Burge, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

One of the hardest things for the sound team on a big picture like The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, is to make it sound familiar and yet new and...

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Contender – Sound Editor Wylie Stateman, Django Unchained

For Quentin Tarantino, sound is extremely important. He has stated that even before he starts writing, he selects an opening credit theme song, and that starts the writing process. According to Wylie...

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For Your Consideration – What Makes for Award-Winning Sound Editing

It’s a given that all the top choices for best sound editing are first-rate candidates. After all, if a picture is an awards contender, every element of the film, including sound, has to be at the...

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60th MPSE Golden Reel Awards

Life of Pi was the big winner at the 60th Annual Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel awards at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles Sunday night.

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