2016 MPSE AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Hacksaw Ridge takes a healthy step closer to winning the Sound Editing Oscar with victory in two categories from the Motion Picture Sound Editors. It's the only winner in more than one field here, possibly confirming that the war film is a real contender in the Oscar tech categories for which it's nominated. MPSE nominations are here.

Best Sound Editing - English Language - Effects / Foley

Steve Burgess, Alex Francis, Robert MacKenzie, Liam Price, Mario Vaccaro and Tara Webb (Hacksaw Ridge)

Best Sound Editing - English Language - Dialogue / ADR

Justine Angus, Jed Dodge, Kimberly Harris, Michele Perrone and Andy Wright (Hacksaw Ridge)

Best Sound Editing - Animation

Thom Brennan, Jonathan Borland, Pascal Garneau, Earl Ghaffari, Lee Gilmore, Matthew Harrison, Tim Nielsen, Dan Pinder, Shelley Roden and John Roesch (Moana)

Best Sound Editing - Documentary

Pete Horner, Al Nelson and Andre Zweers (The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble)

Best Sound Editing - Foreign Language - Effects / Foley / Dialogue / ADR

Fredrik Dalefjell, Erlend Hogstad, Jens Johansson, Ingela Jonsson, Lucas Nilsson, Espen Ronning and Christian Schaanning (The King's Choice)

Best Sound Editing - Musical

Jason Ruder (La La Land)

Best Sound Editing - Music

Michael Bauer and Peter Myles (Warcraft)

Verna Fields Award for Student Filmmakers

Juhasz Zoltan (Fishwitch)

Gerry Vasquez (Icarus)

MPSE Filmmaker Award

Guillermo del Toro

MPSE Career Achievement Award

Harry Cohen

2016 MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS NOMINATIONS

The Motion Picture Sound Editors regularly take their sweet time deciding upon their favourites in film for the previous year, and this year is no exception. That's cool, though - typing this list up amid the awards onslaught of the first half of the season would not have gone down too well with this particular writer. This year's Golden Reel awards will be handed out to the finest sound editors in the business on the 19th of February.

Best Sound Editing - English Language - Effects / Foley

David Acord, Jonathan Borland, Luke Dunn Gielmuda, Ryan Frias, Josh Gold, J. R. Grubbs, Ronni Pitman, Frank Rinella, Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood (Rogue One)

Mimi Allard, Pierre-Jules Audet, Niels Barletta, Mathieu Beaudin, Nicolas Becker, Sylvain Bellemare, Olivier Calvert, Daniel Capeille, Michelle Child, Steven Ghouti, Simon Girard, Olivier Guillaume, Alan Murray, Luc Raymond, Patrick Rioux, Gregory Vincent and Dave Whitehead (Arrival)

Jeremy Bowker, Josh Gold, J. R. Grubbs, Nia Hansen, David C. Hughes, Daniel Laurie, Shannon Mills, Jacob Riehle, Shelley Roden, John Roesch and Dee Selby (Captain America: Civil War)

Christopher Boyes, David Chrastka, David E. Eulner, Andre Fenley, Ken Fischer, James Likowski, Dee Selby, Dennie Thorpe and Jana Vance (The Jungle Book)

Jim Brookshire, John T. Cucci, Warren Hendriks, Craig Henighan, Lee Ai Ling, Wayne Lemmer and Dan O'Connell (Deadpool)

Steve Burgess, Alex Francis, Robert MacKenzie, Liam Price, Mario Vaccaro and Tara Webb (Hacksaw Ridge)

Harry Cohen, Kris Fenske, Gary Hecker, Sylvain Lasseur, Dror Mohar, Rick Owens, Wylie Stateman and Renee Tondelli (Deepwater Horizon)

David Chrastka, Ryan Frias, Josh Gold, J. R. Grubbs, Nia Hansen, David C. Hughes, Daniel Laurie, Shannon Mills, Steve Orlando, Shelley Roden and John Roesch (Doctor Strange)

Best Sound Editing - English Language - Dialogue / ADR

Justine Angus, Jed Dodge, Kimberly Harris, Michele Perrone and Andy Wright (Hacksaw Ridge)

Bub Asman, Alan Robert Murray, Hugo Weng and Katy Wood (Sully)

Chris Battaglia, Frank Gaeta, Kathryn Madsen and Harrison Meyle (Hell or High Water)

Ben Beardwood, Jim Brookshire, Teri Dorman, Laura Graham, R.J. Kizer and Wayne Lemmer (Deadpool)

Sylvain Bellemare, Valery Dufort-Boucher, Claire Pochon and Stan Sakellaropoulos (Arrival)

Susan Dawes, R. J. Kizer, Wayne Lemmer, Helen Luttrell and Derek Vanderhorst (Hidden Figures)

Robert MacKenzie and Glenn Newnham (Lion)

Richard Quinn, Christopher Scarabosio, James Spencer, Trey Turner and Matthew Wood (Rogue One)

Best Sound Editing - Animation

Bob Badami, Christopher Barnett, Jonathan Borland, Ken Fischer, Heikki Kossi, Tim Nielsen, Brad Semenoff, Catherine Wilson and Dug Winningham (The Little Prince)

Gregg Barbanell, Tim Chau, Travis Crotts, Catherine Harper, Thomas O'Neil Younkman and Clayton Weber (Kubo and the Two Strings)

Bill Bernstein, Jonathan Borland, Christopher Flick, Tim Nielsen, Jacob Riehle, Shelley Roden, John Roesch, Steve Slanec, James Spencer, Jack Whittaker and Michael Zainer (Finding Dory)

Steve Boedekker, Ronni Brown, Dustin Cawood, Luke Dunn Gielmuda, Richard Gould, Dennis Leonard, Zach Martin, Cheryl Nardi, Larry Oatfield, Shelley Roden, John Roesch, Mac Smith, Jana Vance and Andre Zweers (Sing)

Jeremy Bowker, Ronni Brown, Stephen M. Davis, Christopher Flick, Earl Ghaffari, Lee Gilmore, Dan Laurie, Willard Overstreet, Addison Teague, Daniel Waldman and Jack Whittaker (Zootopia)

Thom Brennan, Jonathan Borland, Pascal Garneau, Earl Ghaffari, Lee Gilmore, Matthew Harrison, Tim Nielsen, Dan Pinder, Shelley Roden and John Roesch (Moana)

Fabien Devillers, Florian Fabre, Sebastien Marquilly, Matthieu Michaux, Bruno Seznec and Sebastien Seznec (The Red Turtle)

Best Sound Editing - Documentary

Steven Avila, Terry Boyd, Trip Brock, Shasha Dong, Peter Lago, Raymond Park, Alexander Pugh, Matthew Salib and Ben Whitver (Passage to Mars)

Tim Boggs, Alex Lee, Jeffrey Perkins and Julie Pierce (13th)

Shaun Brennan, Lewis Goldstein, Tom Ryan, Alex Soto, Pierre Takal and Tseng Wen Hsuan (The Eagle Huntress)

Oscar Convers, Stephen C. Davies, Max Holland, Diego Jimenez, Jesse Peterson and Chris Stangroom (Amanda Knox)

Will Digby, Cameron Frankley, Dan Kenyon, Harrison Meyle, Jon Michaels and Melissa Muik (The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years)

Bernd Dormayer, Klaus Gartner, Thomas Kathriner, Michael Ploderl and Bernhard Zorzi (The Ivory Game)

Grant Elder, Larry Herman, Ren Klyce, Sylvia Menno, Dave Paterson and Allan Zaleski (Before the Flood)

Pete Horner, Al Nelson and Andre Zweers (The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble)

Best Sound Editing - Foreign Language - Effects / Foley / Dialogue / ADR

Adrian Baumeister, Martin Langenbach, Erik Mischijew, Jan Moser, Matz Muller, Gunther Rohn and Fabian Schmidt (Toni Erdmann)

Katia Boutin, Gwennole le Borgne, Alexis Place and Philippe van Leer (Elle)

Cho Min Kyung, Hong Yoon Sung, Kim Eun Jung, Kim Suk Won, Lee Jong Ho and Moon Chul Woo (The Handmaiden)

Tono Cubillo, Sebastian Esquivel, Miguel Hormazabal, Ivo Moraga and Herve Schneid (Neruda)

Fredrik Dalefjell, Erlend Hogstad, Jens Johansson, Ingela Jonsson, Lucas Nilsson, Espen Ronning and Christian Schaanning (The King's Choice)

Alex Joseph, Richard Kondal, Stelios Koupetoris, Alex Outhwaite and Gwilym Perry (Under the Shadow)

Best Sound Editing - Musical

Becky Bentham (Sing Street)

Fernand Bos, Vicki Hiatt and Erich Stratmann (Trolls)

Earl Ghaffari and Daniel Pinder (Moana)

Gerard McCann, Stuart Morton and Neil Stemp (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Jason Ruder (La La Land)

Best Sound Editing - Music

Michael Bauer and Peter Myles (Warcraft)

Clint Bennett (Arrival)

Warren Brown, Stephen Davis and John Finklea (Rogue One)

Warren Brown, Stephen Davis, Steve Durkee, Anele Onyekwere and Nashia Wachsman (Doctor Strange)

Stephen Davis and Paul Rabjohns (Star Trek Beyond)

Matt Friedman (Hacksaw Ridge)

Alex Gibson, Lee Scott and Nate Underkuffler (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi)

Maarten Hofmeijer (Don't Breathe)

Verna Fields Award for Student Filmmakers

Duan Pei Qi and Zhang Tian Fu (Shallow Grave)

Dustin Elm, Chris Morocco and Derek Sepe (Amelia's Closet)

Fan Wen Rui and Li Xiao Dan (Jerry)

Tom Jenkins (Those Who Are Lost)

Juhasz Zoltan (Fishwitch)

Li Xiang (It's Just a Gun)

Taylor Scherer (Eden)

Gerry Vasquez (Icarus)

MPSE Filmmaker Award

Guillermo del Toro

MPSE Career Achievement Award

Harry Cohen

IT'S A TIE! MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS AWARDS

As if to offer up confirmation as to the deadlocked state of the Oscar sound category races this year, the Motion Picture Sound Editors has declared a tie in its top award between the two frontrunners, Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant. Across the group's seven categories there were eight different winners, with each of the three most-nominated titles (the aforementioned two plus Star Wars: The Force Awakens) among the recipients. Take a look at what the MPSE nominated here, and their choices for award winners below:

Best Sound Effects & Foley

Chris Aud, Phil Barrie, Cate Cahill, Nigel Christensen, Jared Dwyer, Mario Gabrielli, Scott Hecker, Rick Lisle, Mark A. Mangini, Chuck Michael, Andrew Miller, Emma Mitchell, Michael Mitchell, Stuart Morton, Wayne Pashley, Fabian Sanjurjo, John Simpson, Blair Slater, Julian Slater, Alicia Slusarski and David White (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Gregg Barbanell, Lon Bender, Bill Dean, Dino DiMuro, Andrea Gard, Hector Gika, Vincent Guisetti, Catherine Harper, Martin Hernandez, Adam Kopald, Mark Larry, Nancy McCleod, David McMoyler, Rick Owens, Stephen Robinson, Katy Rose, Pernell L. Salinas, Geordy Sincavage, D. Chris Smith, Aran Tanchum, Randy Thom, Gretchen Thomas, Jon Title, Todd Toon and Randy Wassil (The Revenant)

Best Dialogue & ADR

Brian Chumney, Richard Hymns, Gary Rydstrom and Steve Slanec (Bridge of Spies)

Best Music Score Editing

Paul Apelgren and Ramiro Belgardt (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Best Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue & ADR - Animation

Jeremy Bowker, Tom Brennan, Stephen M. Davis, Alyson Dee Moore, Malcolm Fife, David C. Hughes, Ren Klyce, Daniel Laurie, Shannon Mills and John Roesch (Inside Out)

Best Sound Editing - Documentary

Cameron Frankley, Dan Kenyon and Jon Michaels (Cobain: Montage of Heck)

Best Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue & ADR - Foreign Film

Beke Tamas, Szekely Tamas and Zanyi Tamas (Son of Saul)

Best Music Editing in a Musical

Nicholas Renbeck (Love & Mercy)

MPSE NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED: MAD MAX, REVENANT, STAR WARS LEAD

Nominations for the 63rd Motion Picture Sound Editors awards have been announced - yes, that's 63 years of awards for sound editors, and how many of them can you even recall? It's also 63 years of practice for the MPSE, yet they still can't perfect the names of their own nominees, crediting What Happened, Miss Simone? as 'What Happened to Miss Simone', bizarrely. Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant and Star Wars: The Force Awakens nab the total number of nominations available to each - three - and will face off against one another in all of those categories. Also claiming three nods are ace sound editor Martin Hernandez (all for The Revenant), who has worked on some of the most notable soundscapes in film since his debut on collaborator Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Amores Perros in 2000 (I've made my feelings on The Revenant pretty clear, but it thoroughly deserves all these sound nominations), and Paul Apelgren, whose work on three of 2015's blockbuster films sees him recognised with three mentions in the Music Score Editing category. Winners will be announced on the 27th of February, one day before the Oscars. Check out the nominees below:

Best Sound Effects & Foley

Lon Bender, Martín Hernández and Randy Thom (The Revenant)

Scott Hecker and Mark A. Mangini (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Daniel Laurie and Shannon Mills (Ant-Man)

Alan Robert Murray (Sicario)

Al Nelson and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle (Jurassic World)

Oliver Tarney (The Martian)

Mandell Winter (Southpaw)

Matthew Wood (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Best Dialogue & ADR
Lon Bender, Martín Hernández and Randy Thom (The Revenant)

Niall Brady (Room)

Scott Hecker and Mark A. Mangini (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Greg Hedgepath and Mark P. Stoeckinger (Straight Outta Compton)

Richard Hymns (Bridge of Spies)

Alan Robert Murray (Sicario)

Oliver Tarney (The Martian)

Matthew Wood (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Best Music Score Editing

Paul Apelgren (Jupiter Ascending)

Paul Apelgren (Jurassic World)

Paul Apelgren (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Bob Badami (Mad Max: Fury Road)

John Finklea (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation)

Martín Hernández (The Revenant)

Tony Lewis (The Martian)

Ronald Webb (Creed)

Best Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue & ADR – Animation

Christopher S. Aud and Aaron Glascock (Anomalisa)

Anthony Bayman and Adrian Rhodes (Shaun the Sheep Movie)

Ren Klyce and Shannon Mills (Inside Out)

Dennis Leonard (Minions)

Shannon Mills (The Good Dinosaur)

Geoffrey G. Rubay (Hotel Transylvania 2)

Randy Thom and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle (The Peanuts Movie)

Best Sound Editing – Documentary

Christopher Barnett and Tim Nielsen (Racing Extinction)

Bob Bronow (The Wrecking Crew)

Cameron Frankley (Cobain: Montage of Heck)

Luke Gibleon and Mark P. Stoeckinger (A Faster Horse)

Stephen Griffiths and Andy Shelley (Amy)

Pete Horner (Best of Enemies)

Oleg Kulchytskyi (Winter on Fire)

Tony Volante (What Happened, Miss Simone?)

Best Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue & ADR – Foreign Film

Amrit Pritam Dutta and Resul Pookutty (Unfreedom)

Markus Glunz and Peter Staubli (Northmen: A Viking Saga)

Enrique Greiner and Frédéric le Louet (Days of Grace)

Zányi Tamás (Son of Saul)

Best Music Editing in a Musical

Amanda Goodpaster (Pitch Perfect 2)

Nicholas Renbeck (Love & Mercy)

Jason Ruder (Straight Outta Compton)