A strange assortment and no longer an active precursor, this award can also help give a clue as to how the Sound Mixing Oscar might go with the Effects/Foley category more likely to figure than the Dialogue/ADR category.

Nominations Tallies

(3) News of the World, Sound of Metal

The Nominations

Best Sound Editing: Feature Effects / Foley

Cherry
Greyhound
The Midnight Sky
News of the World
Sound of Metal
Tenet
Wonder Woman 1984

Best Sound Editing: Feature Dialogue / ADR

Emperor
Greyhound
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
News of the World
Nomadland
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Sound Editing: Feature Animation

The Croods: A New Age
Onward
Over the Moon
Soul
Wolfwalkers

Best Sound Editing: Feature Documentary

Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Crip Camp
John Lewis: Good Trouble
My Octopus Teacher
The Reason I Jump
Rebuilding Paradise
The Social Dilemma
Zappa

Best Sound Editing: Foreign Language Film

Bacurau
The Eight Hundred
I’m No Longer Here
Jallikattu
The Life Ahead

Best Sound Editing: Feature Underscore

The Invisible Man
The Midnight Sky
News of the World
Sound of Metal
Tenet
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Wonder Woman 1984

Best Sound Editing: Feature Musical

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
The High Note
I Am Woman
The Forty-Year-Old Verison
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
The Prom

Motion Picture Sound Editors Data

Year Founded: 1953
First Awards: 1953 (68)