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It was announced at the start of April thatDavid Fincher had been tapped to direct a sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, and now the film may have just got a major unexpected update. Deadline recently sat down for an interview with Michael B. Jordan for his new movie, Sinners, and buried in the report was the claim that the Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood sequel will reportedly be titled The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth. This news lines up with the initial report that the sequel will be focused on Brad Pitt’s character, Cliff Booth, and would likely only feature Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton in a small role, if at all. The sequel is in the works at Netflix and aims to begin filming this summer in California.

The 2019 showbiz drama is the subject of Brad Pitt’s only Oscar win...

(from left) Roz (Lupita N’yongo), and Brightbill (Kit Connor) in DreamWorks Animation’s Wild Robot, directed by Chris Sanders.

The nominations for the 72nd Annual Mpse Golden Reel Awards, honoring outstanding achievement in sound editing, sound design, music editing and foley artistry in film, television and gaming were announced on Monday.. Winners will be announced at the annual gala on February 23, 2025 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Please find a full list of nominations below.

As previously announced, two honorary awards will also be presented at the gala: Kevin Costner will receive the Filmmaker Award and supervising sound editor Greg Hedgepath, Mpse will receive the Career Achievement Award. Patton Oswalt will serve as the host of the ceremony.

72Nd Annual Mpse Golden Reel Awards Nominations

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Animation

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Supervising Sound Editors: D.J. Lynch,...

Now hear this: The Motion Picture Sound Editors is out with the nominees for its 2025 Golden Reel Awards. See the list below.

Now in its 72nd year, the Golden Reels honor outstanding achievement in sound editing, sound design, music editing and foley artistry in 20 categories spanning film, television and video games. Winners will be announced February 23 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.

Oscar winner Kevin Costner to receive the Mpse Filmmaker Award, and supervising sound editor Greg Hedgepath to receive the Career Achievement Award

Last year’s top Golden Reel film honors went to Oppenheimer, Maestro, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Society of the Snow.

Founded in 1953, the Motion Picture Sound Editors is a nonprofit group of professional sound and music editors who work in the motion picture, TV and gaming industries. Here are the nominees for its 2025 Golden Reel Awards:

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Animation...

The Motion Picture Sound Editors (Mpse) have announced the nominations for the 72nd Annual Mpse Golden Reel Awards, honoring outstanding achievement in sound editing, sound design, music editing, and foley artistry in film, television, and video games. While more casual moviegoers (and fans of “The Thrilling Adventure Hour” bits) can easily recognize the creative wizardry in physically producing sound effects via foley, every part of the sound process is crucial to making us feel the physical and emotional reality of the films and shows we watch.

The nominees are very much in line with the frontrunners for the 2025 Best Sound Oscars. The “Dune: Part Two” team was recognized for dialogue editing/Adr, effects/foley, and music editing, as was “Deadpool & Wolverine,” with “Alien: Romulus,” “Wicked,” and “Emilia Pérez” all scoring nominations in feature sound categories as well.

On the television side, there’s a pleasant mix of action-packed juggernauts...

Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune: Part Two and Shawn Levy‘s Deadpool & Wolverine tie for the lead number of feature nominations for the 72nd Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards with three nods each in the categories of dialogue/Adr, effects/foley and music.

Following behind with two nominations each are Alien: Romulus (dialogue/Adr and effects/foley), A Complete Unknown (dialogue/Adr and music), Emilia Pérez (international and music) and Wicked (dialogue/Adr and music).

All six films have been shortlisted for the Oscar in sound, as has The Wild Robot, which received an Mpse Golden Reel nomination in the feature animation category. Blitz, Gladiator II and Joker: Folie à Deux, which have also been shortlisted, did not receive a Golden Reel nom.

As previously announced, Kevin Costner will receive the Filmmaker Award, and supervising sound editor Greg Hedgepath will receive the Career Achievement Award at the 72nd Mpse Golden Reel Awards,...

Gold Derby recently honored five of “Masters of the Air’s” Emmy-nominated artisans at a special rooftop FYC event in Culver City, California. Those in attendance for the nine-part, WWII-themed Apple TV+ limited series were composer Blake Neely, co-supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Michael Minkler, re-recording mixer Duncan McRae, supervising dialogue editor Dave McMoyler and scoring mixer Thor Fienberg. Watch our interviews with all five of these Emmy nominees below by clicking each name.

“Masters of the Air” follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group, also known as “The Bloody Hundredth,” as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air. The wartime epic stars Oscar nominee Austin Butler as Major Gale “Buck” Cleven, Callum Turner as John “Bucky” Egan, Anthony Boyle as Lieutenant Harry Crosby, Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan...

They came from all over L.A. on Monday night to spend a languid, balmy August evening on the roof of the iconic One Culver building in the heart of Culver City. The event honored Emmy nominees in numerous crafts categories at Apple TV+’s Summer Soiree FYC party, where some 300 people gathered to talk about the forthcoming awards and chow down on a gourmet buffet. In the main, they were there to take a bow themselves or rise in applause for hairstylists, make-up artists, composers, sound editors and mixers, production designers, set decorators, main title designers, costume designers and casting directors who had earned 2024 nominations for the Apple original series “The Morning Show,” “Palm Royale” and “Masters of the Air.”

The gathering was designed to shine a vivid light on some of those artisans who tend to receive significantly less attention than the above-the-line red carpet talent but are...

Industry heavyweights Atticus Ross (“Shogun”), Michael Minkler (“Masters of the Air”) and Robert Elswit (“Ripley”) were among those who led the Creative Art Emmy nominations on Wednesday morning.

FX’s “Shogun” dominated the Emmy nominations Wednesday morning, landing 25 nods. The drama series based on James Clavell’s epic novel landed musician and composer Ross a nomination for music composition for a series while costume designer Carlos Rosario was also nominated.

Speaking with Variety, Rosario explained how he created over 2300 designs for the series set in feudal Japan.

Elswit, who reunited with directed Steven Zaillian for Netflix’s “Ripley,” earned his first Primetime Emmy nod. The Oscar winning Dp (“There Will Be Blood”) sat down for Variety’s Inside the Frame series and explained how he wanted to get inside Tom Ripley’s (Andrew Scott) mind and give the series a painterly effect.

“This goes back to his way of bringing Caravaggio into the movie,...

“Masters of the Air” costume designer Colleen Atwood brought along Austin Butler’s jacket to Variety’s TV FYC Fest. “It’s Austin Butler’s jacket that he wore, Maj. Cleven’s jacket and hat, and I thought, ‘Well, I should bring it.’ It’s D-Day. People like seeing real stuff,'” Atwood told the audience.

Atwood was joined by her fellow artisans from the Apple TV+ series: supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Michael Minkler, composer Blake Neely, director of photography Richard Rutkowski and music supervisor Deva Anderson. The panelists acknowledged the 80th anniversary of D-Day with Neely sharing news. “I just found out that a piece from ‘Masters of the Air’ is what opened the D-Day Normandy event,” he told his fellow department heads.

Adapted from Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, the miniseries is the third installment of the “Band of Brothers” trilogy. “Masters of the Air...

Updated with latest additions: Additional speakers have been added to the 13th annual Produced By Conference, the Producers Guild’s annual confab that is set for June 11-12 on the Fox studio lot.

Newly announced participants in the weekend of panels, sessions and network events include Peter Friedlander, DanTram Nguyen, Megan Colligan, Mark Resteghini, Devin Griffin, Barry Jossen, Mark Gill, Aaron Hart, Catherine Tait, Chris Thomes, Yvette Nicole Brown and more.

They join previously announced names including Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, Seth MacFarlane, Charles D. King, Dan Lin, Stephanie Allain, Betsy Beers, Jason Richman, Mark Kimsey and Aml Ameen.

Here is the full list of participants so far, with a working schedule of events available here.

Stephanie Allain

Aml Ameen

Trevor Baker

Amanda Beggs, Cas

Betsy Beers

Xavier Bernasconi

Alison Brower

Yvette Nicole Brown

Elle Roth-Brunet

Rick Champagne

Kesila Childers

Steven B. Cohen

Megan Colligan

Jesse Collins

Simon Crownshaw

Viola Davis

Dante Di Loreto

Sabrina Ehlert

Mike Farah

Stephen Feder

Erica Fishman

Ashley N. Flores

Peter Friedlander

Mark Gill

Amy Gravitt

Marsha Greene

Devin Griffin (EVP & General Manager of BET+)

Aaron Hart

Melody Hildebrandt

Erica Huggins

Steve Jelley

Valerie Johnson-Redrow

Barry Jossen

Jennifer Kawaja

Mark Kimsey

Charles D. King

Mike Larocca

Karen Baker Landers, Mpse

Dan Lin

Seth MacFarlane

Michael Minkler, Cas

Jordana Mollick

DanTram Nguyen

Arnold Pinnock

Mark Resteghini

Jason Richman

Joel Sloss

Curt Sobel, Mpse

Christina Lee Storm

Rabia Sultana

Catherine Tait

Julius Tennon

Chris Thomes

Nikola Todorovic (Co-founder & CEO at Wonder Dynamics)

Diana Williams

Tonya Williams

Philipp Wolf

David W. Zucker

Previously, May 13 Pm: After being on hiatus for the last two years during Covid, the Producers Guild of America (PGA)’s 12th annual Produced By Conference has announced its first round of speakers. The event is taking place on Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12 at the Fox Studio Lot in Century City.

Those panelists include Oscar winner Viola Davis; veteran producer Julius Tennon (President and Co-Founder of JuVee Productions; The First Lady); animation heavyweight Seth MacFarlane; pioneering producer Charles D. King; tentpole-maker Dan Lin; legendary producer Stephanie Allain; master of television Betsy Beers; comedy leader Mike Farah; IP chief Jason Richman; producing innovator Mark Kimsey (Co-CEO of Electromagnetic Productions); actor and producer Aml Ameen (Executive Producer/ Actor – The Porter; Actor – I May Destroy You; Producer/ Actor – Boxing Day) with more to be announced soon.

Produced By will feature panels, Q&As, a networking reception, its Mentoring Roundtables, and the return of the Pitch Perfect session, during which a handful of pre-selected attendees pitch their projects live in front of an audience of leading producers and executives.

The confirmed participants in the Mentor Roundtables are: Insecure producer Deniese Davis; producing legend Gary Goetzman; Academy Award-nominated producer Fred Berger; Daniels producer Jonathan Wang; James Lopez; and Farah, with more to be announced.

New for this year’s conference is the Producers One-on-One engagement, which connects PGA members with an experienced producer for a one-on-one conversation. This is designed for members to seek thoughtful advice about specific projects they are producing. Additionally, for the first time, PGA Create, the Producers Guild’s program supporting emerging and mid-career creative producers from underrepresented backgrounds, will bring together its 35 PGA Create scripted and documentary fellows for a day-long set of networking opportunities supported by the program’s lead sponsor, Google.

On Friday, the Producers Guild of America announced featured speakers and mentors for the 2022 Produced By conference, happening Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12 at the Fox studio lot in Century City.

Among the speakers are Oscar-winner Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon, representing their outfit JuVee Productions; “The Orville” and “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane; “Judas and the Black Messiah” producer Charles D. King (Founder & CEO, MacRo); “The Lego Movie” producer Dan Lin (Founder and CEO of Rideback); and “Hustle and Flow” producer Stephanie Allain (Homegrown Pictures).

Also attending will be Shondaland creative partner Betsy Beers; Funny or Die CEO Mike Farah; UTA Co-Head of Media Rights Jason Richman; Mark Kimsey, co-ceo of Electromagnetic Productions; actor and producer Aml Ameen. More featured speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Per the official description, Produced By Conference 2022 “will feature panels, Q&As, a networking reception, its ever-popular Mentoring Roundtables,...

Even before an iconic distant whistle opened the first screenings of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, it was clear that musicals would factor into this year’s Oscar race.

Hollywood loves musicals, and the classic 1961 West Side Story, directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, is the most honored in the genre, winning 10 Oscars, including best picture and director, plus crafts awards like cinematography, music and sound. “Look at West Side Story, All That Jazz, Singin’ in the Rain. Those are really good stories, great performances and music — these are well-crafted movies,” says recording mixer Michael Minkler, who is ...

It has been another strange and uncertain year for Hollywood, with the pandemic hitting cinemas hard and streaming services rising to hold the fort. It has also been a year in which we’ve seen a growing diversity in front of, and behind the camera, with an increasing focus on new voices and new stories being told.

Last year saw Bong Joon-ho ‘s Parasite achieve Oscar greatness and, for a brief pre-covid moment, it seemed that the world of cinema was beginning to embrace a wider world. The 2021 BAFTAs showed signs this was continuing with Minari, Another Round and Promising Young Woman taking home a clutch of awards each.

This year’s American Academy Awards will be a strange affair, certainly one to remember.

Here is the full list of nominations with Winners in bold.

Best Picture

“The Father” (Sony Pictures Classics)

“Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros.)

“Mank...

The biggest night in Hollywood has brought a new crop of Oscar Winners, with the 93rd Annual Academy Awards happening at Union Station in Los Angeles and the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center earlier tonight. It was a much different year for the legendary awards ceremony, following a prolonged lockdown during a pandemic that shut down most theaters in America. That didn't stop some excellent movies from being released over the course of the past twelve months. And they were celebrated accordingly.

ABC and Disney celebrated movie theaters and moviegoing throughout the telecast, with talent from impending releases sharing their favorite moviegoing experiences, while also debuting trailers for big releases such as Steven Spielberg's West Side Story remake, Lin-Manuel Miranda's summer musical In the Heights and Questlove's Hulu documentary Summer of Soul.

But what movie fans really came for was the big Oscars categories, to...

It's finally time for the biggest night in Hollywood: the Oscars! After unveiling its official list of nominees in March, the award show officially kicked off on Sunday night. Not only are there a handful of star-studded presenters, including Zendaya, Brad Pitt, and Halle Berry, but there are also a few chances for some historic wins in the best actress and best director categories. Here's a refresher of which films and actors are up for big awards. Be sure to keep refreshing this page all night as we update it with the winners.

Best Picture

The Father

Judas and the Black Messiah

Mank

Minari

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Director

Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round

David Fincher, Mank

Lee Isaac Chung, Minari

Winner: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Best Actress

Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Andra Day, The United States vs.

“Mank” is the only film in contention at the 2021 Oscars to break the double digit barrier in the nominations count. This Netflix period picture reaped a leading 10 bids. In a six-way tied for second place with, appropriately enough, six nominations apiece are “The Father,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Minari,” “Nomadland,” “Sound of Metal,” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” All seven of these films are up for Best Picture. That race is rounded out by five-time contender “Promising Young Woman.”

Scroll down to see the full list of nominations in all 23 competitive categories at the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25.

Best Picture

“The Father”

“Judas and the Black Messiah”

“Mank”

“Minari”

“Nomadland”

“Promising Young Woman”

“Sound of Metal”

“The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Director

Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”

David Fincher, “Mank”

Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”

Thomas Vinterberg, “Another Round”

Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”

Best Actress

Viola Davis,...

Ahead of this year’s Oscars, the academy made the decision to merge the Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing categories into one: Best Sound. The films in contention for this new award are “Greyhound,” “Mank,” “News of the World,” “Soul,” and “Sound of Metal.” Our current odds indicate that “Sound of Metal” (31/10) will take the prize, followed in order by “Soul” (39/10), “Mank” (9/2), “Greyhound” (9/2), and “News of the World” (9/2).

The individuals included in the current lineup have amassed a total of 34 nominations for their sound work in 30 films. “Sound of Metal” is the only film of the five that does not include any previous Oscar nominees on its sound team. Its first-time contenders are: Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Philip Bladh, Carlos Cortés and Michelle Couttolenc.

“Sound of Metal” and “Mank” now hold the distinction of being the first films recognized in a sound category with five credited team members each.

For the first time in decades, the Academy has merged sound editing and sound mixing into a single category because of persistent overlap, and this season offers five exemplary nominees: the experimental “Sound of Metal,” “Mank,” and “Soul,” the rugged western soundscape of “News of the World,” and the explosive sounds of World War II battleships in “Greyhound” (the latter two starring Tom Hanks).

But Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal,” in which Riz Ahmed portrays Ruben, a heavy-metal drummer losing his hearing, is the favorite to win the Oscar for its complexity and detail. Although the film was snubbed at the Mpse Golden Reel Awards, it rebounded to take the Cas sound mixing prize. This is a film about sound because of the way it explores deafness as a way of experiencing sound and vibration. Getting inside Ruben’s head creates the dichotomy between “omniscient sound and perspective sound,...

Darius Marder’s experimental “Sound of Metal” — the Oscar favorite for Best Sound — was surprisingly snubbed at the 68th annual Mpse Golden Reel Awards for sound editing on Friday, but it rebounded on Saturday to take sound mixing honors at the 57th annual Cas Awards. The sound editors presented a three-way split between Aaron Sorkin’s multi-layered courtroom drama, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (dialogue/Adr), “Greyhound,” the World War II battleship action/adventure (effects/foley), which is an Oscar sound nominee, and Christopher Nolan’s time-inverted “Tenet” (underscore). Pixar’s “Soul,” which took the Golden Reel for animation, is also in the Oscar hunt for sound. However, the other two Oscar nominees — “Mank” and “News of the World” — were completely shut out.

Ironically, the primary reason the Academy consolidated sound editing and mixing into one category this season was due to increased overlap in recent years. However, despite...

The Trail of the Chicago 7, Soul and Tenet were among the film winners at the 68th annual Mpse Golden Reel Awards, which were handed out during a virtual ceremony tonight. The Motion Picture Sound Editors also honored TV shows including The Mandalorian and The Queen’s Gambit.

Read the full winners list below.

Other films scooping trophies at tonight’s event hosted by voice actors Kelly Stables and David Cowgill included Greyhound, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of the Fire Saga, The Eight Hundred and The Reason I Jump. No single pic took multiple awards.

That wasn’t the case on the TV side as Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit scored three wins and Disney+’s The Mandalorian made off with two. The night’s other double winner was video game The Last of Us Part II.

Recognizing outstanding achievement in sound editing during the past year, Golden Reels were doled...

The Motion Picture Sound Editors handed out their awards in a virtual ceremony with Pixar’s “Soul, “Tenet” and “Greyhound” among the winners.

The Mpse also awarded “The Trial of the Chicago 7” for outstanding achievement in sound editing – feature dialogue / Adr, and outstanding achievement in sound editing – feature musical went to “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of the Fire Saga.”

All the films have received Oscar nominations in numerous categories, with “Greyhound” and “Soul” nominated in the newly combined best sound category.

The Golden Reel Awards, recognizing outstanding achievement in sound editing, were presented in 22 categories encompassing feature films, long-form and short-form television, animation, documentaries, games, special venue and other media.

Academy Award-winning re-recording mixer Chris Jenkins presented the Mpse Filmmaker Award to “Mad Max” director George Miller.

The Mpse Career Achievement Award went to supervising sound editor Dennis Drummond, Drummond’s award was accepted by his brother, Patrick Drummond.

“Tenet,” “Eurovision Song Contest,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Greyhound” have won feature-film awards at the Motion Picture Sound Editors Mpse Golden Reel Awards, which took place on Friday evening in a virtual event.

The Mpse divides the art of sound editing into several different categories, with “Tenet” winning for underscore, “Eurovision Song Contest” for music, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” for dialogue/Adr and “Greyhound” for effects/foley.

In the past, the last of those categories has most closely corresponded to the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing — but that Oscar category was merged with the Best Sound Mixing category into a single Best Sound category this year. “Greyhound” is nominated in that category, along with “Soul,” “Mank,” “News of the World” and “Sound of Metal.”

“Soul” won for sound editing in an animated feature, while “The Eight Hundred” won for a foreign-language feature and “The Reason I Jump...

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” was the big winner on the opening night of the 2021 BAFTA Film Awards, taking home two golden masks from a possible two.

Night 1, hosted virtually by radio and TV presenter Clara Amfo, was a mostly craft-centered affair which also yielded wins for “Mank,” “Tenet” and “Sound of Metal.”

The first show was originally scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. local time, but according to sources the BBC made a late decision to push the broadcast by an hour. Amfo opened the show by reading a tribute to Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, who died Friday at the age of 99.

“On behalf of BAFTA, we are extremely saddened by the passing of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, on Friday. The Duke was BAFTA’s very first president over 60 years ago and was the first of a line of royal patronage all...

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, ‘Rocks’, ‘Sound Of Metal’ and ‘Tenet’ among winners.

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom picked up two prizes at the opening night of the 2021 Bafta Film Awards in London, which focused on the craft categories.

The US film, directed by George C. Wolfe, won both the awards for which it was nominated: costume design for the work of Ann Roth; and make-up and hair, recognising Matiki Anoff, Larry M. Cherry, Sergio Lopez-Rivera and Mia Neal.

The music drama and Netflix title is up for one more prize at the main ceremony tomorrow, for late leading actor Chadwick Boseman.

World War II adventure “Greyhound,” now streaming on Apple TV Plus, takes place on a battleship in the chill of a North Atlantic winter. Tom Hanks wrote the screenplay and stars in the film about a captain whose ship comes under attack by German U-boats as it crosses what is known as the black pit of the ocean — an area not covered by anti-submarine aircraft.

For rerecording mixer Michael Minkler, supervising sound editor Warren Shaw and sound mixer David Wyman, who have been Oscar-nominated for their work on the film, the job was to put the audience in the middle of the action and give the actors a work-friendly environment in which to perform.

In a third-act climactic sequence, the destroyer, code-named Greyhound, comes close to a U-boat and has to make a sharp turn to avoid being hit by torpedoes while defending another ship. The sequence runs five minutes long,...

The taut Tom Hanks action film “Greyhound” is set in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in 1942, as a convoy of battleships dodge enemy torpedos. Practically the entire movie was filmed on sound stages or aboard the docked U.S.S. Kidd in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Visual effects provided the aesthetic reality — but sound effects deliver the visceral, you-are-there quality that makes the scenes whizz and whoosh.

“Greyhound” was rewarded with an Oscar nomination for Best Sound, the first film released by Apple TV+ to receive Oscar attention. (The company’s “Wolfwalkers” was also nominated in the Animated Feature race.) The four sound mixers, Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman, talked to TheWrap about the aural design of one specific scene, which you can watch below in three different sound versions.

The scene finds Hanks anxiously navigating his gargantuan ship as it is fired upon by two simultaneous torpedos.

“The whole movie was about keeping it moving. The peril never stops,” reveals “Greyhound” supervising sound editor Michael Minkler. Sound mixer David Wyman adds, “So much of it was in the undertow of getting the performances from the actors.” The sound duo joined us recently for an exclusive webchat (watch the video above).

The Apple TV+ film is set in World War II, telling the story of Navy Commander Krause (Tom Hanks) on his first wartime mission. Being hunted by Germans, his ship gets entangled in the Battle of the Atlantic. Minkler explains, “These people had a relatively small amount of time to get across the sea in the zone without any air cover, while being stalked by dozens of U-boats. It was a terrifying experience. The music is driving the intensity and fear, then you turn over the sound effects; something that changes the amount of danger. In the midst of battle,...

Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Adarsh Gourav's co-star in The White Tiger and her husband, actor-singer Nick Jonas, today announced the Oscar nominations of Writer-director Ramin Bahrani's The White Tiger. Ramin Bahrani's film has been nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category at the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards.

Mank, with 10 nominations, has garnered the highest number of nominations this year. The black and white biopic, based on the life of 'Citizen Kane' co-screenplay writer Herman J Mankiewicz, garnered nominations in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director (for David Fincher), Best Actor (Gary Oldman) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Amanda Seyfried).

Other notable films that won multiple nominations include "The Trial Of The Chicago 7" (six nominations), "Judas And The Black Messiah" (six), "The Father" (six) and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (five).

The late Chadwick Boseman is a contender in the Best Actor category for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom...

In one of the most difficult years for everyone, there was a time when there was a question of whether the Oscars, the world’s most prestigious movie awards, would take place. However, the film industry has overcome its obstacles and the nominations for 2021 have finally arrived.

For the first time ever, two women have been nominated in the Best Director category with both Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) and Emerald Fennel (Promising Young Women) taking those noms.

Those competing in the Best Picture Category include ‘The Father,’ ‘Judas and the Black Messiah,’ ‘Mank,’ ‘Minari,’ ‘Nomadland,’ ‘Promising Young Woman,’ ‘Sound of Metal’ and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7.’

Riz Ahmed, Chadwick Boseman, Steven Yeun are amongst the Best Actor nominees whilst Viola Davis, Vanessa Kirby and Andra Day take nominations for Best Actress.

The ceremony for the 93rd Academy Awards are set to take place across multiple locations and in-person on April 25th.

After the many delays of this pandemic year, the Oscar nominations are finally here.

Competing for best picture are “The Father,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Mank,” “Minari,” “Nomadland,” “Promising Young Woman,” “Sound of Metal” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”

Netflix’s “Mank” scored a leading 10 nominations, including nods for best director (David Fincher), best actor (Gary Oldman) and best supporting actress (Amanda Seyfried), in addition to best picture.

Following behind with six nominations apiece are “The Father,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Minari,” “Nomadland,” “Sound of Metal” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” received five nods.

Two women were nominated for best director for the first time ever with Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) and Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”). They will compete against Thomas Vinterberg (“Another Round”), David Fincher (“Mank”) and Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”).

Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas announced...

The 2021 Oscars nominations list was announced on Monday, March 15 at the academy’s headquarters in Beverly Hills, California. (Scroll down for the full and complete list of Academy Awards nominees.)

Final voting doesn’t start until April 15 and then runs for only six days; that is the shortest time for balloting in the history of these top movie honors. The 2021 Oscars ceremony takes place on April 25 and for the third time in as many years, it won’t have a host.

At 5:18 a.m. Pt/8:20 a.m. Et, nominees were announced in nine categories: Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Original Score, Sound, Animated Short and Live Action Short.

At 5:30 a.m. Pt/8:30 a.m. Et, nominees were announced in the remaining 15 races: Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Cinematography, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Song, Production Design, Visual Effects, Animated Feature, Documentary Feature,...

The complete list of nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards, which will be held at 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (PST) on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at various places in Los Angeles, including the Dolby Theater.

BEST PICTURE

Nomadland (Searchlight)

Minari (A24)

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)

Promising Young Woman (Focus)

Sound of Metal (Amazon)

Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)

Mank (Netflix)

The Father (Sony Classics)

BEST DIRECTOR

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)

David Fincher (Mank)

Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)

Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)

Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)

Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)

Anthony Hopkins (The Father)

Gary Oldman (Mank)

Steven Yeun (Minari)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Frances McDormand (Nomadland)

Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)

Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)

Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)

Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)

Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami)

Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Lakeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah)

Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Olivia Colman (The Father)

Youn Yuh-jung (Minari)

Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)

Amanda Seyfried (Mank)

Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)

One Night in Miami (Kemp Powers)

The Father (Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller)

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Sacha Baron Cohen and Co-Writers)

The White Tiger (Ramin Bahrani)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)

Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)

Sound of Metal (Derek Cianfrance, Abraham Marder & Darius Marder)

Judas and the Black Messiah (Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas & Kenny Lucas)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Crip Camp (Netflix)

Time (Amazon)

Collective (Magnolia/Participant)

My Octopus Teacher (Netflix)

The Mole Agent (Gravitas)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

Another Round (Denmark)

Collective (Romania)

Better Days (Hong Kong)

Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

The Man Who Sold His Skin (Sweden)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Soul (Pixar)

Wolfwalkers (Apple TV+/GKIDS)

Over the Moon (Netflix)

Onward (Pixar)

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (Netflix)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Mank - Erik Messerschmidt

Nomadland - Joshua James Richards

News of the World -Dariusz Wolski

Judas and the Black Messiah - Sean Bobbitt

The Trial of the Chicago 7 -Phedon Papamichael

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Mank - Trish Summerville

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ann Roth

Emma - Alexandra Byrne

Mulan - Bina Daigeler

Pinocchio - Massimo Cantini Parrini

BEST FILM EDITING

Sound of Metal - Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

Nomadland - Chloé Zhao

The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Alan Baumgarten

The Father - Yorgos Lamprinos

Promising Young Woman - Frédéric Thoraval

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal, Jamika Wilson

Mank - Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams, Colleen LaBaff

Hillbilly Elegy - Eryn Krueger Mekash, Patricia Dehaney, Matthew Mungle

Emma - Marese Langan, Laura Allen, Claudia Stolze

Pinocchio - Dalia Colli, Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Soul - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste

Mank - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Minari - Emile Mosseri

News of the World - James Newton Howard

Da 5 Bloods - Terence Blanchard

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"Speak Now" (One Night in Miami)

"Io Si (Seen)" (The Life Ahead)

"Husavik" (Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga)

"Hear My Voice" (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

"Fight For You" (Judas and the Black Messiah)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Mank - Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Production Design: Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton

News of the World - Production Design: David Crank; Set Decoration: Elizabeth Keenan

The Father - Production Design: Peter Francis; Set Decoration: Cathy Featherstone

Tenet - Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas

BEST SOUND

Sound of Metal - Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh

News of the World - Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett

Soul - Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker

Mank - Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin

Greyhound - Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Tenet - Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher

The Midnight Sky - Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins

The One and Only Ivan - Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez

Mulan - Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury and Steve Ingram

Love and Monsters - Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt and Brian Cox

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

If Anything Happens I Love You

Burrow

Yes-People

Opera

Genius Loci

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

A Concerto Is a Conversation

A Love Song for Latasha

Colette

Do Not Split

Hunger Ward

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

Two Distant Strangers

Feeling Through

The Present

The Letter Room

White Eye...

The live-action feature nominees for the 57th annual Cas Awards for sound mixing (presented virtually on April 17) include “Greyhound,” “Mank,” “News of the World,” “Sound of Metal,” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” Darius Marder’s innovative “Sound of Metal,” the frontrunner, also split the Motion Picture Sound Editors nominations with Paul Greengrass’ “News of the World,” with three nods.

Not making the cut, though, was Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” the time inversion spy thriller, which was roundly criticized for mixing its dialogue way too low. Also overlooked was George Clooney’s sci-fi drama, “The Midnight Sky,” though the director will be honored as Cas Filmmaker.

In terms of the Oscar race, the Academy has consolidated sound editing and mixing onto a single category for the first time this season.

Seven-time Oscar-nominated sound mixer William B. Kaplan is this year’s Cas Career Achievement Honoree.

Motion Pictures – Live Action...

The Cinema Audio Society (Cas) has announced the nominations for the 57th Annual Cas Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2020 in seven categories, as well as the Outstanding Product Nominations.

Among the films, TV shows and animated features nominated are “Mank,” “News of the World,” “Soul,” “Croods: A New Age,” “News of the World,” “Lovecraft Country” and “The Mandalorian.”

As previously announced, George Clooney will receive the Cas filmmaker award and production sound mixer William B. Kaplan as the Cas career achievement honoree. The student recognition award winner will also be named.

The awards are designed to educate and inform audiences that effective sound is achieved by a creative, artistic and technical blending of diverse sound elements. They will be presented in a virtual ceremony on April 17.

“2020 was wrought with unprecedented challenges, yet the nominees of the 57th Annual Cas Awards display a stellar example of quality and...

South Korean smash stuns Hollywood awards show.

South Korea’s Parasite was the big winner at the 92nd annual Academy Awards, earning awards for best picture, director, international feature film, and original screenplay.

All the winners appear below in bold. The ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Oscars 2020: Full list of winners

Best Motion Picture of the year

Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Parasite

Best Director

Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Todd Phillips, Joker Sam Mendes, 1917 Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Bong Joon Ho,...

South Korean smash stuns Hollywood awards show.

Parasite was the big winner at the 92nd annual Academy Awards, earning awards for best picture, director, international feature film and original screenplay.

All the winners appear below in bold. The 92nd Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Oscars 2020: Full list of winners

Best Motion Picture of the year

Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Parasite

Best Director

Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Todd Phillips, Joker Sam Mendes, 1917 Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Bong Joon Ho,...

South Korean smash ‘Parasite’ stuns Hollywood awards show.

South Korea’s Parasite was the big winner at the 92nd annual Academy Awards, earning awards for best picture, director, international feature film, and original screenplay.

All the winners appear below in bold. The ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Oscars 2020: Full list of winners

Best Motion Picture of the year

Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Parasite

Best Director

Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Todd Phillips, Joker Sam Mendes, 1917 Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood Bong Joon Ho,...

Sound has been a Minkler family affair since 1929, when Darrell Minkler moved to Hollywood from Chicago to work on the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system at Warner Bros., providing soundtracks for the early days of the talkies.

His son, Don Minkler, followed in his footsteps, working as a rerecording mixer on projects such as 1967's Tarzan series and 1970's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

These achievements were followed by three-time Oscar winner Michael Minkler and his son Christian Minkler, the third and fourth generation of Minklers to forge their path in the world of Hollywood sound.

Combined with their uncles,...

Sound has been a Minkler family affair since 1929, when Darrell Minkler moved to Hollywood from Chicago to work on the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system at Warner Bros., providing soundtracks for the early days of the talkies.

His son, Don Minkler, followed in his footsteps, working as a rerecording mixer on projects such as 1967's Tarzan series and 1970's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

These achievements were followed by three-time Oscar winner Michael Minkler and his son Christian Minkler, the third and fourth generation of Minklers to forge their path in the world of Hollywood sound.

Combined with their uncles,...

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” sound mixers Mark Ulano and father-son duo Michael Minkler and Christian P. Minkler helped create the unique soundscapes of 1960s Los Angeles, and they just earned Oscar nominations for it. The sound design of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” features cars whirring by, crackling Am radio, layered sound effects and the constant hum of the city. “We had such a huge variety of material so we took our best shot at making it sound 1969,” says Michael. “The way we wanted it to sound in 1969.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Michael, Christian and Ulano above.

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Director Quentin Tarantino was very particular in his recreation of Hollywood in 1969 and started by giving Ulano a host of musical material with which to work. This included “50 hours of log tapes of Khj music as an entree to...

The Cinema Audio Society has announced its nominations for 2020, giving awards season favorites such as “Joker,” “The Irishman,” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” added momentum as the Oscars draw closer. Previously announced honorees at the 2020 Cinema Audio Society awards will be James Mangold as Cas Filmmaker and Re-recording Mixer Tom Fleischman as the Cas Career Achievement Honoree. The latter award will be presented by Martin Scorsese.

In a statement announcing this year’s nominations, Cinema Audio Society president Karol Urban said, “Each year I am gobsmacked by the impressive level of craftsmanship and artistry that is brought to

the forefront at the Cas Awards and 2019 will be no exception. It is such a joyful honor to have the opportunity to reunite with fellow mixers and celebrate the stellar work of our sound community. Congratulations to all our talented nominees.”

The Awards will be presented at a sealed envelope...

Now hear this: The Cinema Audio Society is out with the nominations for its 56th annual Cas Awards, which honor the outstanding achievements in sound mixing for 2019. See the full list below.

Trophies for the seven categories spanning film and TV will be handed out during the January 25 ceremony at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Final balloting for the Cas Awards kicks off January 2 and ends at 5 p.m. Pt on January 14.

The group said last month that Ford v Ferrari director James Mangold will receive this year’s Cas Filmmaker honor. Re-recording mixer Tom Fleishman is set for its highest honor, the Cas Career Achievement Award.

Last year’s Cas Award winner, Bohemian Rhapsody, went on the score the Best Achievement in Sound Editing Oscar for John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone.

Here are the nominations for the 56th annual Cas Awards:

Motion Picture – Live Action

Ford v Ferrari

Production Mixer – Steven A.

“Joker,” “Frozen 2,” “The Lion King,” “Ford v Ferrari” and “Toy Story 4” have scored nominations for sound mixing from the Cinema Audio Society.

The 56th edition of the awards will be presented on Jan. 25 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. Nominations were announced on Tuesday.

“Each year I am gobsmacked by the impressive level of craftsmanship and artistry that is brought to the forefront at the Cas Awards and 2019 will be no exception,” said Cas president Karol Urban. “It is such a joyful honor to have the opportunity to reunite with fellow mixers and celebrate the stellar work of our sound community. Congratulations to all our talented nominees!”

Here’s the full list of nominees:

Motion Picture — Live Action

“Ford v Ferrari”

Production Mixer – Steven A. Morrow

Re-recording Mixer – Paul Massey

Re-recording Mixer – David Giammarco

Scoring Mixer – Tyson Lozensky

Adr Mixer – David Betancourt

Foley Mixer – Richard Duarte

“Joker”

Production Mixer...

In recent months, Rob Zombie has been taking to Instagram on a pretty regular basis to share images and updates for his next movie, Three From Hell. In just this last week, however, the director has seriously upped the frequency of his posts, bringing us one image for every day of the sound mixing process.

The fresh wave of photos started last week, with a pic from the mixing room that showed a fictionalized news report up on the screen. “Day 2” then followed with a photo offering another glimpse at Sheri Moon Zombie, who reprises her role as Vera-Ellen “Baby” Firefly from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects. After that, Day 3 brought us an image of Zombie regular Richard Brake as Winslow Foxworth Coltrane, followed on Day 4 by a shot of Jeff Daniel Phillips as Warden Virgil Dallas Harper. Lastly, a still of Do the Right Thing star Richard Edson dropped yesterday,...

Writer-director Rob Zombie is hard at work finishing up his new Firefly Family fright flick 3 from Hell, and the man is all over Instagram posting pics as he works on the film's final stage of post-production, sound-mixing. In fact, it looks like Zombie is posting a new pic from the flick for every single day of the process. So far the new looks include Sheri Moon Zombie as Vera-Ellen "Baby" Firefly, Richard Brake as Winslow Foxworth Coltrane, and Jeffrey Daniel Phillips as Warden Virgil Dallas Harper. Along with Strange Days, Super Mario Bros., Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Do the Right Thing actor Richard Edson and Battle for the Planet of the Apes and Assault on Precinct 13 actor Austin Stoker in currently unnamed roles.

Not only that, but Rob Zombie let us all know via these new posts that sound-mixing for 3 from Hell is being handled by a triple...

Rob Zombie has been consistently active on social media in recent months to offer updates and photos from the making of his next movie, Three From Hell. So while the director has yet to announce a release date for his upcoming Devil’s Rejects sequel, he was at least quick to shoot down the rumor that it was set to hit theaters on October 31st.

As the director of two Halloween movies and the Halloween-set horror flick 31, Zombie is arguably overdue to release a film on the actual day, but sadly, it doesn’t sound like Three From Hell will be doing the honors, despite a recent report saying otherwise. Taking to Instagram with another pic from the mixing room, the filmmaker offered the following update:

“Day 2 : mixing 3 From Hell. And on it goes! Fyi the release date is not October 31st. Don’t know who started that rumor.

Three From Hell director Rob Zombie has taken to Instagram once more with another update on his long-awaited sequel to 2005’s The Devil’s Rejects, and it seems that the team has now moved on to the sound mixing stage.

The Lords of Salem helmsman’s latest post includes a behind-the-scenes photo, along with a caption teasing the involvement of a three-time Oscar-winner:

“Day 1 – mixing sound on 3 From Hell. Getting closer to finishing this monster. Fyi our mixer is a triple Academy Award winner who has mixed everything from Star Wars to Inglorious Basterds! So it will definitely sound killer.”

Presumably, Zombie is referring to Michael Minkler, whose more recent jobs have included A Star Is Born and Quentin Tarantino’s next film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

In the photo, meanwhile, you’ll notice that a fictional news report is being shown up on the screen with a...

In the eleven-plus months since principal photography wrapped on Three From Hell, director Rob Zombie has been offering a steady stream of updates and images via social media, but one reveal he’s continued to hold back on is the film’s release date.

But while the Lords of Salem helmsman has yet to make the announcement, Dark Universe: Horror Database has now reported that Zombie’s sequel to 2005’s The Devil’s Rejects is aiming to hit theaters on October 31st, 2019. That’s right, the director of two Halloween movies may finally be releasing one of his horror films on the actual day.

So far, we’ve yet to receive any official confirmation that this is the case, so perhaps it’s best not to mark your diaries just yet. Still, given how active Zombie has been on Instagram these days, surely he can only go so long before...

It might seem like an impossible feat, but with his version of “A Star Is Born,” Bradley Cooper both puts a fresh spin on a decades-old movie staple and transcends its very place in cinema history by fixing the story, turning a classic role, finally, into a tragic figure you actually care about.

For that and many more reasons (like a field that isn’t as competitive as usual), the lead actor Oscar race might be over and done with. Cooper is that good as the kind-hearted but haunted Jackson Maine, and the screenplay — from Cooper, Will Fetters, and Oscar winner Eric Roth — finely tunes his story, serving the character far better than any previous version of the tale has for Fredric March and James Mason’s Norman Maine, or Kris Kristofferson’s John Norman Howard.

That you can get two paragraphs into spelling out the virtues of this film...

Sound vet Michael Minkler — who won Oscars as a rerecording mixer on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down — has become a partner in production services firm Pace. This first order of business: an expansion in sound by designing the company's first Dolby Atmos mixing theater, which is now operational.

It's part of a larger growth strategy for Pace and its production service partner IgnitedSpaces. In early 2017, Heath Ryan-led Pace moved its operations (it previously has small spaces in Westwood and Studio City) to IgnitedSpaces’ now 45,000 sq. foot facility, which is a stone’s throw from Hollywood & Highland. The...