With so many nominees, you wouldn’t think the Motion Picture Sound Editors would be that helpful in predicting the Oscars. However, they certainly are. Films that receive 3 nominations are almost assured nomination (almost). Two mentions mean they have a decent, but more limited opportunity. No nominations and you can probably count them out entirely. As always, guilds are guides, not guarantees.

Nominations Tallies

(3) 12 Years a Slave, Gravity
(2) American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Frozen, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Inside Llewyn Davis, Lone Survivor

The Nominations

Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film

12 Years a Slave
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Fast & Furious 6
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Lone Survivor

Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film

12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor

Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue, ADR and Music in an Animation Feature Film

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Epic
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
Monsters University
Planes

Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue, ADR and Music in a Feature Documentary

“1”
20 Feet from Stardom
CinemAbility
Dirty Wars
Good Ol’ Freda
Muscle Shoals
Rising from Ashes
Sound City

Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Foreign Language Film

Blue Is the Warmest Color
The Grandmaster
The Past
Wadjda

Best Sound Editing: Music in a Feature Film

12 Years a Slave
47 Ronin
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
World War Z

Best Sound Editing: Music in a Musical Feature Film

Frozen
Inside Llewyn Davis
Justin Bieber’s Believe
Metallica Through the Never

Motion Picture Sound Editors Data

Year Founded: 1953
First Awards: 1953 (61)