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)

CREED WINS FOUR AWARDS WITH THE BLACK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE

The Black Film Critics Circle fulfilled its duty to its community with its choices for the best in film of 2015. Directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, Creed won four awards, including three acting prizes, from the BFCC. There were awards also for Straight Outta Compton and What Happened, Miss Simone?, and special awards for Ice Cube and Abraham Attah. Check it all out below:

Best Picture

1. Creed

2. Mad Max: Fury Road

3. Straight Outta Compton

4. Spotlight

5. The Martian

6. Room

7. Beasts of No Nation

8. The Hateful Eight

9. The Big Short

10. Ex Machina

Best Directing

George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Actor

Michael B. Jordan (Creed)

Best Actress

Brie Larson (Room)

Best Supporting Actor

Sylvester Stallone (Creed)

Best Supporting Actress

Tessa Thompson (Creed)

Best Screenwriting (Original Screenplay)

Straight Outta Compton

Best Screenwriting (Adapted Screenplay)

The Martian

Best Cinematography

Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Ensemble Performance

Straight Outta Compton

Best Animated Feature

Inside Out

Best Documentary Feature

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Best Foreign Language Film

Son of Saul

Rising Star

Abraham Attah

Special Mention

Beasts of No Nation

Pioneer

Ice Cube

NOMINEES AND FIRST WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR 2015 INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION AWARDS

Creative recognition awards have been announced for the International Documentary Association's 2015 slate, alongside nominations for Best Feature and Best Short and a variety of other awards. Widely seen and acclaimed titles make up the Best Feature lineup, though the IDA voters have given a few mentions to some lesser-known docs. The ceremony will take place on the 5th of December, to be hosted by comedian Tig Notaro. All the nominations below.

Best Feature
Amy (James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia)
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Laurens Grant and Stanley Nelson)
Listen to Me Marlon (John Battsek and Stevan Riley)
The Look of Silence (Signe Byrge Sorensen and Joshua Oppenheimer)
The Russian Woodpecker (Chad Gracia and Mike Lerner)
What Happened, Miss Simone? (Liz Garbus)

Best Writing
Peter Ettedgui and Stevan Riley (Listen to Me Marlon)

Best Cinematography
Artem Ryzhykov (The Russian Woodpecker)

Best Editing
Joe Beshenkovsky and Brett Morgen (Cobain: Montage of Heck)

Best Music
Jonathan Kirkscey (Best of Enemies)

ABC News VideoSource Award
(T)ERROR (Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe)
Best of Enemies (Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville)
Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll (John Pirozzi)
Night Will Fall (Andre Singer)
What Happened, Miss Simone? (Liz Garbus)

Career Achievement Award
Gordon Quinn

Pioneer Award
Ted Sarandos

Amicus Award
Tony Tabatznik and the Bertha Foundation

Emerging Filmmaker Award sponsored by the Archibald Family Foundation
Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe

Courage Under Fire Award
Matthew Heineman

David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
The Archipelago (Benjamin Huguet)
The Blue Wall (Michael Milano)
El Cacao (Michelle Aguilar)
In Attla's Tracks (Catharine Axley)
Looking at the Stars (Alexandre Peralta)

Best Short
Body Team 12 (David Darg and Bryn Mooser)
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (Adam Benzine)
The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul (Philippa Campey and Kitty Green)
Last Day of Freedom (Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman)
Object (Paulina Skibinska)

Pare Lorentz Award
How to Change the World (Jerry Rothwell)