Precursor: 63rd Sound Editors Guild Nominations (2015)

Most guilds announce their nominations before the Academy Awards. These can often be instructive as to what the branches are thinking. This year, one of the guilds decided to release quite some time after the nominations and their results aren’t very elucidating as a result.

However, it’s worth noting that the Motion Picture Sound Editors (shortened to just Sound Editors Guild in my headline, since that’s essentially what they are), which typically correlates to the Best Sound Editing Oscar, reflects the admiration of all five Oscar nominees. There are two primary categories to watch with this group: the Sound Effects and Foley, and Dialogue and ADR categories for feature films. Typically, these two categories represent the top selections by the guild and most directly relate to the Sound Editing Oscar.

While there were seven films that scored multiple nominations, only five of them were nominated in both of these categories: the four titles that received three mentions and Sicario form the list of double nominees. Straight Out of Compton showed up in Dialogue and ADR, but not Sound Effects and Foley. Jurassic World had the opposite result. Both received nods for music editing in a feature film, which is the category where the four thrice-nominated films also showed up.

Those five films that got both Sound Effects and Foley, and Dialogue and ADR nominations were also the Oscar nominees. This might have been instructive ahd they announced prior to the Oscar nominations. Now they seem like either a reflection of or a copy. only.

Nominations Tallies

(3) Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
(2) Jurassic World, Sicario, Straight Outta Compton

The Nominations

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

Ant-Man
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Southpaw
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film

Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Straight Outta Compton

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

Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Hotel Transylvania 2
Inside Out
Minions
The Peanuts Movie
Shaun The Sheep Movie

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

A Faster Horse
Amy
Best of Enemies
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
Racing Extinction
The Wrecking Crew
What Happened to Miss Simone?
Winter On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom