Academy Award for Best Sound | |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
First award | November 5, 19301929/1930 film season) | (for films released during the
Most recent winner | Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett, and Doug Hemphill Dune: Part Two (2024) |
Website | oscars |
The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing. The award used to go to the studio sound departments until a rule change in 1969 said it should be awarded to the specific technicians, the first of which were Murray Spivack and Jack Solomon for Hello, Dolly!.[1] It is generally awarded to the production sound mixers, re-recording mixers, and supervising sound editors of the winning film. In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. For most of the period from 1963 to 2019 two separate awards were given for sound: Best Sound Mixing (just called Best Sound in some years) and Best Sound Effects Editing (just called Best Sound Effects, or Best Sound Editing in some years).[2]
For the second and third years of this category (i.e., the 4th Academy Awards and the 5th Academy Awards) only the names of the film companies were listed. Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department won in both years.