The Oscar frontrunner for Best Sound, “Dune,” contends in three of the six film categories at Sunday’s Golden Reel Awards bestowed by the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE). It is tipped to prevail in two of these races: dialogue/ADR and sound effects/foley. “Dune” is expected to lost its other bid, for music, to one of its Oscar rivals: “West Side Story” is predicted to win that race, which marks its only nomination here.
Two of the other Oscar nominees — “Belfast” and “No Time to Die” — vie in sound effects/foley while the fifth contender, “The Power of the Dog,” is vying in dialogue/adr.
The upcoming Oscars mark the second year for the new Best Sound category, which combines Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. There can be up to six nominees from a film: one production sound mixer, two supervising sound editors and three re-recording mixers. Last year, “Sound of Metal” won this award after being shut out by the MPSE despite a leading five bids.
In 2020 the war film “1917” won Best Sound Mixing while the auto racing drama “Ford v Ferrari” claimed the Best Sound Editing honor. Over the past decade, the two categories matched a half dozen times: “Inception” (2010), “Hugo” (2011), “Gravity” (2013), “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015), “Dunkirk” (2017) and “Bohemian Rhapsody” (2018) claimed both honors.
The Golden Reel Awards winners will be revealed during a virtual ceremony on March 13. Director Ron Howard will be feted with the MPSE Filmmaker Award.
SOUND EFFECTS & FOLEY
“Belfast”
“Dune”
“The Matrix Resurrections”
“Nightmare Alley”
“No Time to Die”
“A Quiet Place Part II”
“Spider-Man: No Way Home”
DIALOGUE & ADR
“Dune”
“Last Night in Soho”
“The Matrix Resurrections”
“Nightmare Alley”
“The Power of the Dog”
“A Quiet Place Part II”
“The Tragedy of Macbeth”
MUSIC
“Dune”
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife”
“In the Heights”
“The Matrix Resurrections”
“Nightmare Alley”
“A Quiet Place Part II”
“tick tick…BOOM!”
“West Side Story”
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ANIMATION
“Encanto”
“Luca”
“The Mitchells vs. the Machines”
“Raya and the Last Dragon”
“Sing 2”
DOCUMENTARY
“Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry”
“Flee”
“Summer of Soul”
“Val”
“The Velvet Underground”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE EFFECTS/ FOLEY/ DIALOGUE/ ADR
“Cliff Walkers”
“The Hand of God”
“A Hero”
“Titane”
“A Writer’s Odyssey”
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