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