The Motion Picture Picture Sounds Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards are one of my “secret” favorites. I have this fantasy that one day I’d love to learn to be a sound editor for film and video. I have pretty much zero experience in the matter and no way to fund an education, so it’s a complete pipe dream. Still, a man can dream, can’t he? A man can dream…
For a reminder on the difference between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing, check out my explanation on Cinema Audio Society (the sound mixers guild) nominations post.
The MPSE gave Gravity and 12 Years a Slave the lead with 3 nominations apiece. But the biggest news out of this list is the shocking ZERO nods for Rush. That’s unfortunate, and unexpected. I had been predicting it to get an Oscar nod (see my Oscar Predictions post). But after coming up short with both the sound editors AND mixers guilds, now I’m not so sure.
Here are the Golden Reel Awards Nominees…
Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in an English Language Feature
“All Is Lost”
“Captain Phillips”
“Fast & Furious 6”
“Gravity”
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”
“Iron Man 3”
“Lone Survivor”
“12 Years a Slave”
Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in an English Language Feature
“American Hustle”
“August: Osage County”
“Captain Phillips”
“Gravity”
“Her”
“Inside Llewyn Davis”
“Lone Survivor”
“12 Years a Slave”
Best Sound Editing in an Animated Feature (English or Foreign Language)
(Includes ADR, Dialogue, Sound Effects and Foley)
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2”
“The Croods”
“Despicable Me 2”
“Epic”
“Ernest & Celestine”
“Frozen”
“Monsters University”
“Planes”
Best Sound Editing in a Foreign Language Feature
(Includes ADR, Dialogue, Sound Effects and Foley)
“Blue Is the Warmest Color”
“The Grandmaster”
“The Past”
“Wadjda”
Best Sound Editing: Music in a Musical Feature (English or Foreign Language)
“Frozen”
“Inside Llewyn Davis”
“Justin Bieber’s Believe”
“Metallica Through the Never”
Best Sound Editing: Music in a Feature (English or Foreign Language)
“American Hustle”
“47 Ronin”
“Gravity”
“The Great Gatsby”
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”
“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”
“12 Years a Slave”
“World War Z”
Best Sound Editing in a Feature Documentary Feature
“CinemAbility”
“Dirty Wars”
“Good Ol’ Freda”
“Muscle Shoals”
“Rising from Ashes”
“Sound City”
“20 Feet from Stardom”
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