This year’s Oscar nominees for Best Sound Editing were “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Life of Pi,” “Skyfall” and “Zero Dark Thirty.” Though intriguingly, even with inflated categories including eight nominees, Kathryn Bigelow’s bin Laden manhunt effort failed to receive a notice in the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards nominations, revealed today.
All others are accounted for, and of course, the ASC brought an end to “Zero Dark Thirty”‘s perfect streak of recognition from the industry awards. So nothing has been embraced all the way across the board. Par for the course in a very electric, wide-open awards season. But interestingly today, two of the films that led with nominations were “Argo” (which was a surprise nominee in both sound categories at the Oscars) and “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” (which failed to pick up either sound nomination). So who knows what help this list may or may not have afforded in predicting a typical year.
Check out the full list of MPSE nominees below and, as always, keep track of all the ups and downs of the 2012-2013 film awards season via The Circuit.
Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in an Animation Feature Film
“Brave”
“A Cat in Paris”
“Frankenweenie”
“The Lorax”
“ParaNorman”
“The Pirates!: Band of Misfits”
“Rise of the Guardians”
“Wreck-it Ralph”
Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue, ADR and Music in a Feature Documentary
“Bully”
“Climate Refugees”
“Jiro Dreams of Sushi”
“Last Call at the Oasis”
“Marley”
“Searching for Sugar Man”
Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Foreign Language Film
“800 Million”
“Amour”
“Children of Sarajevo”
“The Hypnotist”
“The Intouchables”
“Rust & Bone”
Best Sound Editing: Music in a Feature Film
“Argo”
“The Cabin in the Woods”
“The Dark Knight Rises”
“Django Unchained”
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
“Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”
“Skyfall”
Best Sound Editing: Music in a Musical Feature Film
“Joyful Noise”
“Les Misérables”
“Pitch Perfect”
“Rock of Ages”
Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film
“Argo”
“Beasts of the Southern Wild”
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
“Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”
“Moonrise Kingdom”
“Silver Linings Playbook”
“Skyfall”
Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film
“Argo”
“The Avengers”
“The Dark Knight Rises”
“Django Unchained”
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
“Life of Pi”
“Prometheus”
“Skyfall”