84th Academy Awards: Sound Mixing

NOMINEES

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Bo Persson
• Hugo – Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
• Moneyball – Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, David Giammarco, and Ed Novick
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers,Jeffrey J. Haboush, and Peter J. Devlin
• War Horse – Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson, and Stuart Wilson

As this category is closely connected to Sound Editing it is worth checking the nominees there, as they duplicate each other with the exception of Moneyball.

This award generally given to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film.

Normally the engineer will mix 4 main elements: speech (dialogue, ADR, voice-overs etc.), ambience, sound effects and music.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

• Post Magazine interview with Ren Klyce
• Indiewire interview with Ren Klyce

HUGO

• LA Times on Hugo winning at the Golden Reel Awards
• Hitfix on Hugo’s win at the Cinema Audio Society

MONEYBALL

• The Wrap interview Deb Adair
• Hitfix on the Sound Mixing category

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON

• Post Magazine article on the sounds of Transformers 3
• More on Dolby 7.1

WAR HORSE

• Mix Magazine interview with Gary Rydstrom
• Dolby Insider interview about cinema sounds

> Official Oscar site
> Explore previous winners of Best Sound Mixing at Wikipedia