Best Sound Editing

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The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound design and sound editing. The award is usually received by the Supervising Sound Editors of the film, perhaps accompanied by the Sound Designers. The award was added in 1963 at the 36th Academy Awards.

The Sound Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 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.

This is a award has had different name throughout the years; Best Sound Effects (1963–1967, 1975), Sound Effects Editing (1977, 1981–1999), and Sound Editing (1979, 2000–present).

Nominees & winners[]

1963 - 1967: The category was named Best Sound Effects

1964 - 1974: No award was given

Best Sound Editing By Decade
1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s

1970s

1975: The category was name Best Sound Effects

1976: No Award was given

1977: The category was called Best Sound Effects Editing

1978: No Award was given

52nd Academy Awards, 1979: Special Achievement Award to The Black Stallian — Alan Splet

1980s

1980: No Award given

1981 - 1989: The category was called Best Sound Effects Editing

1990s

1990 - 1999: The category was called Best Sound Effects Editing

2000s

73rd Academy Awards (2000)

Winner: U-571 — Jon Johnson
Nominees: Space Cowboys — Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman

74th Academy Awards (2001)

Winner: Pearl Harbor — George Watters II, Christopher Boyes
Nominees: Monsters, Inc. — Gary Rydstrom, Michael Silvers

75th Academy Awards (2002)

Winner: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers — Ethan Van der Ryn, Mike Hopkins
Nominees: Minority Report — Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns; Road to Perdition — Scott A. Hecker

76th Academy Awards (2003)

Winner: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World — Richard King
Nominees: Finding Nemo — Gary Rydstrom, Michael Silvers; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl — Christopher Boyes, George Watters II

77th Academy Awards (2004)

Winner: The Incredibles — Randy Thom, Michael Silvers
Nominees: The Polar Express — Randy Thom, Dennis Leonard; Spider-Man 2 — Paul N.J. Ottosson

78th Academy Awards (2005)

Winner: King Kong (2005) — Mike Hopkins, Ethan Van der Ryn
Nominees: Memoirs of a Geisha — Wylie Stateman; War of the Worlds (2005) — Richard King

79th Academy Awards (2006)

Winner: Letters from Iwo Jima — Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
Nominees: Apocalypto — Sean McCormack, Kami Asgar; Blood Diamond — Lon Bender; Flags of Our Fathers — Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman; Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest — Christopher Boyes, George Watters II

80th Academy Awards (2007)

Winner: The Bourne Ultimatum — Karen Baker Landers, Per Hallberg
Nominees: No Country for Old Men — Skip Lievsay; Ratatouille — Randy Thom, Michael Silvers; There Will Be Blood — Christopher Scarabosio, Matthew Wood; Transformers — Ethan Van der Ryn, Mike Hopkins

81st Academy Awards (2008)

Winner: The Dark Knight — Richard King
Nominees: Iron Man — Christopher Boyes, Frank E. Eulner; Slumdog Millionaire — Glenn Freemantle, Tom Sayers; WALL-E — Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood; Wanted — Wylie Stateman

82nd Academy Awards (2009)

Winner: The Hurt Locker — Paul N.J. Ottosson
Nominees: Avatar — Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle; Inglourious Basterds — Wylie Stateman; Star Trek — Mark P. Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin; Up — Tom Myers, Michael Silvers

2010s

83rd Academy Awards (2010)

Winner: Inception — Richard King
Nominees: Toy Story 3 — Tom Myers, Michael Silvers; Tron: Legacy — Addison Teague, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle; True Grit (2010) — Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey; Unstoppable — Mark P. Stoeckinger

84th Academy Awards (2011)

Winner: Hugo — Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty
Nominees: Drive — Lon Bender, Victor Ray Ennis; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Ren Klyce; Transformers: Dark of the Moon — Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl; War Horse — Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns

85th Academy Awards (2012)

Winner: Tie: Skyfall — Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers
Zero Dark Thirty — Paul N.J. Ottosson
Nominees: Argo — Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn; Django Unchained — Wylie Stateman; Life of Pi — Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton

86th Academy Awards (2013)

Winner: Gravity — Glenn Freemantle
Nominees: All is Lost — Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns; Captain Phillips — Oliver Tarney; The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — Brent Burge; Lone Survivor — Wylie Stateman

87th Academy Awards (2014)

Winner: American Sniper — Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
Nominees: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) — Martin Hernández, Aaron Glascock; The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies — Brent Burge, Jason Canovas; Interstellar — Richard King; Unbroken — Becky Sullivan, Andrew DeCristofaro

88th Academy Awards (2015)

Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road — Mark Mangini, David White
Nominees: The Martian — Oliver Tarney; The Revenant — Martin Hernandez, Lon Bender; Sicario — Alan Robert Murray; Star Wars: The Force Awakens — David Acord, Matthew Wood

89th Academy Awards (2016)

Winner: Arrival — Sylvain Bellemare
Nominees: Deepwater Horizon — Wylie Stateman, Renee Tandelli; Hacksaw Ridge — Robert Mackenzie, Andy Wright; La La Land — Ai-Ling, Mildred Iatrou Morgan; Sully — Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman