All five of these nominees are on the Academy’s shortlist, so we don’t get any real peak into what could happen other than the inclusion of No Time to Die over The Matrix Resurrections and The Power of the Dog over Belfast. Considering the Jane Campion’s film is a relatively quiet one that doesn’t have as many audio cues as something like Belfast, it’s a positive sign that it’s included here. This is most damning for A Quiet Place Part II and tick, tick…BOOM!, which both needed a citation here to be considered viable.

The Nominations

Best Sound Mixing – Live Action

Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
Spider-Man: No Way Home
West Side Story

Best Sound Mixing – Animated

Encanto
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
Sing 2

Best Sound Mixing – Documentary

Becoming Cousteau
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Tina
Val
The Velvet Underground

Cinema Audio Society Data

Year Founded: 1964
First Awards: 1993 (29)