Academy Award for Best Sound

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!. 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 the respective periods from 1963 to 1967 and 1982 to 2019, competitive awards for sound were presented in two separate categories: 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).

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.

Winners and nominees

1930s

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"

|- style="background:#bebebe;"

! style="width:5%;"| Year

! style="width:35%;"| Film

! style="width:60%;"| Nominees

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

! rowspan="5" |1929–1930 (3rd)

|The Big House

|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer

|The Case of Sergeant Grischa

|RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Tribby

|The Love Parade

|Paramount Famous Lasky Studio Sound Department, Franklin B. Hansen

|Raffles

|United Artists Studio Sound Department, Oscar Lagerstrom

|Song of the Flame

|First National Studio Sound Department, George Groves

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

! rowspan="4" |1930–1931 (4th)

| colspan="2" |Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department

|colspan=2|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department

|colspan=2|RKO Radio Studio Sound Department

|colspan=2|Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists Studio Sound Department

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

! rowspan="4" |1931–1932 (5th)

| colspan="2" |Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|The Hindenburg

|Peter Berkos

! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1976 (49th)

! colspan="2" | Best Sound

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|All the President's Men

|Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander and Jim Webb

|King Kong

|Harry W. Tetrick (posthumously), William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin and Jack Solomon

|Rocky

|Harry W. Tetrick (posthumously), William McCaughey, Lyle J. Burbridge and Bud Alper

|Silver Streak

|Donald O. Mitchell, Douglas Williams, Richard Tyler and Harold M. Etherington

|A Star Is Born

|Robert Knudson, Dan Wallin, Robert Glass and Tom Overton

! rowspan="8" style="text-align:center" | 1977 (50th)

! colspan="2" | Best Sound

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Star Wars

|Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler and Derek Ball

|Close Encounters of the Third Kind

|Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene Cantamessa

|The Deep

|Walter Goss, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert and Robin Gregory

|Sorcerer

|Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Richard Tyler and Jean-Louis Ducarme

|The Turning Point

|Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells, Douglas Williams and Jerry Jost

! colspan="2" | Special Achievement Academy Award (Sound Effects Editing)

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Skyfall (TIE)

|Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Zero Dark Thirty (TIE)

|Paul N. J. Ottosson

|Argo

|Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn

|Django Unchained

|Wylie Stateman

|Life of Pi

|Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton

! rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" | 2013 (86th)

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Mixing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Gravity

|Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro

|Captain Phillips

|Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro

|The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

|Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Tony Johnson

|Inside Llewyn Davis

|Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland

|Lone Survivor

|Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Editing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Gravity

|Glenn Freemantle

|All Is Lost

|Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns

|The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

|Brent Burge and Chris Ward

|Captain Phillips

|Oliver Tarney

|Lone Survivor

|Wylie Stateman

! rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" | 2014 (87th)

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Mixing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Whiplash

|Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

|American Sniper

|John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin (posthumously)

|Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

|Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga

|Interstellar

|Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten

|Unbroken

|Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Editing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|American Sniper

|Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

|Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

|Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock

|The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

|Brent Burge and Jason Canovas

|Interstellar

|Richard King

|Unbroken

|Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

! rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" | 2015 (88th)

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Mixing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Mad Max: Fury Road

|Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo

|Bridge of Spies

|Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson and Drew Kunin

|The Martian

|Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth

|The Revenant

|Randy Thom, Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Chris Duesterdiek

|Star Wars: The Force Awakens

|Christopher Scarabosio, Andy Nelson and Stuart Wilson

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Editing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Mad Max: Fury Road

|Mark Mangini and David White

|The Martian

|Oliver Tarney

|The Revenant

|Lon Bender and Martin Hernández

|Sicario

|Alan Robert Murray

|Star Wars: The Force Awakens

|David Acord and Matthew Wood

! rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" | 2016 (89th)

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Mixing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Hacksaw Ridge

|Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace

|Arrival

|Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye

|La La Land

|Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steven A. Morrow

|Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

|Christopher Scarabosio, David Parker and Stuart Wilson

|13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

|Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Editing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Arrival

|Sylvain Bellemare

|Deepwater Horizon

|Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli

|Hacksaw Ridge

|Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright

|La La Land

|Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan

|Sully

|Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

! rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" | 2017 (90th)

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Mixing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Dunkirk

|Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten

|Baby Driver

|Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis

|Blade Runner 2049

|Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth

|The Shape of Water

|Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier

|Star Wars: The Last Jedi

| David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Editing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Dunkirk

|Richard King and Alex Gibson

|Baby Driver

|Julian Slater

|Blade Runner 2049

|Mark Mangini and Theo Green

|The Shape of Water

|Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira

|Star Wars: The Last Jedi

|Ren Klyce and Matthew Wood

! rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" | 2018 (91st)

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Mixing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|Bohemian Rhapsody

|Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali

|Black Panther

|Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter J. Devlin

|First Man

|Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis

|Roma

|Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García

|A Star Is Born

|Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steven A. Morrow

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Editing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

| Bohemian Rhapsody

| John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone

| Black Panther

| Steve Boeddeker and Benjamin A. Burtt

| First Man

| Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan

| A Quiet Place

| Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl

| Roma

| Skip Lievsay and Sergio Díaz

! rowspan="12" style="text-align:center" | 2019 (92nd)

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Mixing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

|1917

|Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson

|Ad Astra

|Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson and Mark Ulano

|Ford v Ferrari

|Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Steven A. Morrow

|Joker

|Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic and Tod A. Maitland

|Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

|Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler and Mark Ulano

! colspan="2" | Best Sound Editing

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

| Ford v Ferrari

| Donald Sylvester

| Joker

| Alan Robert Murray

| 1917

| Oliver Tarney and Rachael Tate

| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

| Wylie Stateman

| Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

| Matthew Wood and David Acord

2020s

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"

|- style="background:#bebebe;"

! style="width:5%;"| Year

! style="width:35%;"| Film

! style="width:60%;"| Nominees

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

! rowspan="5" |2020/21 (93rd)

|Sound of Metal

|Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh

|Greyhound

|Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman

|Mank

|Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin

|News of the World

|Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett

|Soul

|Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

! rowspan="5" |2021 (94th)

|Dune

|Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett

|Belfast

|Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri

|No Time to Die

|Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor

|The Power of the Dog

|Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb

|West Side Story

|Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

! rowspan="5" |2022 (95th)

| Top Gun: Maverick

| Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor

| All Quiet on the Western Front

|Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte

|Avatar: The Way of Water

|Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges

| The Batman

|Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson

| Elvis

|David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

! rowspan="5" |2023 (96th)

| The Zone of Interest

| Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn

| The Creator

|Ian Voigt, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic

| Maestro

|Steven A. Morrow, Richard King, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic

|Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

|Chris Munro, James H. Mather, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor

| Oppenheimer

|Willie D. Burton, Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo and Kevin O'Connell

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

! rowspan="5" |2024 (97th)

|Dune: Part Two

|Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill

|A Complete Unknown

|Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco

|Emilia Pérez

|Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta

|Wicked

|Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis

|The Wild Robot

|Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Lefferts

|- style="background:#FAEB86"

! rowspan="5" |2025 (98th)

|F1

|Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo and Juan Peralta

|Frankenstein

|Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern

|One Battle After Another

|José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio and Tony Villaflor

|Sinners

|Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor and Steve Boeddeker

|Sirāt

|Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas and Yasmina Praderas

Multiple nominations and awards for Best Sound Mixing

| valign="top" |

{| class="wikitable sortable"

! style="width:50px;"| Awards

! Nominations

! Recipient

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="3" | 5

| style="text-align: center;" | 16

| Thomas T. Moulton

| style="text-align: center;" | 15

| Douglas Shearer

| style="text-align: center;" | 7

| Fred Hynes

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="6" | 4

| style="text-align: center;" | 12

| Gary Summers

| style="text-align: center;" | 10

| Gary Rydstrom

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="2" | 9

| Gregg Landaker

| Scott Millan

| style="text-align: center;" | 7

| Bob Beemer

| style="text-align: center;" | 4

| Mark Berger

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="11" | 3

| style="text-align: center;" | 17

| John P. Livadary

| style="text-align: center;" | 16

| Gordon E. Sawyer

| style="text-align: center;" | 12

| Michael Minkler

| style="text-align: center;" | 10

| Robert Knudson

| style="text-align: center;" | 8

| Gary A. Rizzo

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="2" | 7

| Gregg Rudloff

| Steve Maslow

| style="text-align: center;" | 6

| Franklin Milton

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="2" | 5

| Chris Jenkins

| Christopher Newman

| style="text-align: center;" | 3

| David MacMillan

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="21" | 2

| style="text-align: center;" | 24

| Andy Nelson

| style="text-align: center;" | 12

| Les Fresholtz

| style="text-align: center;" | 11

| Michael Semanick

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="2" | 9

| David Parker

| Tom Johnson

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="3" | 8

| Christopher Boyes

| Dick Alexander

| George Groves

| style="text-align: center;" | 7

| Willie D. Burton

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="7" | 4

| Bill Varney

| Chris Munro

| Hammond Peek

| Michael Hedges

| Ron Judkins

| Simon Kaye

| Stephen Dunn

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="2" | 3

| David Lee

| Walter Murch

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="3" | 2

| David Hildyard

| Russell Williams II

| Tom Scott

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="96" | 1

| style="text-align: center;" | 21

| Kevin O'Connell

| style="text-align: center;" | 17

| Nathan Levinson

| style="text-align: center;" | 14

| Donald O. Mitchell

| style="text-align: center;" | 12

| Randy Thom

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="2" | 11

| Edmund H. Hansen

| Richard Portman

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="2" | 9

| Aaron Rochin

| Paul Massey

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="2" | 8

| Bernard B. Brown

| Doug Hemphill

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="4" | 7

| Arthur Piantadosi

| Gene Cantamessa

| Jack Whitney

| Lee Orloff

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="6" | 6

| David E. Campbell

| Jack Solomon

| John T. Reitz

| Leslie I. Carey

| Robert Glass

| Stuart Wilson

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="6" | 5

| Don MacDougall

| Franklin B. Hansen

| Skip Lievsay

| Tom Fleischman

| Vern Poore

| William McCaughey

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="11" | 4

| Carlton W. Faulkner

| Douglas Williams

| Ed Novick

| Elliot Tyson

| Gordon McCallum

| Greg Orloff

| Ivan Sharrock

| James Corcoran

| Mark Ulano

| Mark Weingarten

| Roy Charman

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="10" | 3

| Bill W. Benton

| Charles Grenzbach

| Don Digirolamo

| Gregory H. Watkins

| John Cox

| John Midgley

| John Wilkinson

| Mark Taylor

| Ronald Pierce

| Shawn Murphy

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="11" | 2

| Bob Minkler

| Jim Webb

| Ken Weston

| Kirk Francis

| Lora Hirschberg

| Murray Spivack

| Peter Handford

| Roger Herman Jr.

| Steve Pederson

| Tim Cavagin

| Todd Boekelheide

| valign="top" |

{| class="wikitable sortable"

! Nominations

! Recipient

| style="text-align: center;" | 16

| Greg P. Russell

| style="text-align: center;" | 12

| Loren L. Ryder

| style="text-align: center;" | 11

| Rick Kline

| style="text-align: center;" | 10

| Anna Behlmer

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="2" | 9

| Frank A. Montaño

| John Aalberg

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="3" | 7

| Daniel J. Bloomberg

| Michael J. Kohut

| William B. Kaplan

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="3" | 6

| Elmer A. Raguse

| Keith A. Wester

| Waldon O. Watson

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="4" | 5

| Art Rochester

| Michael Herbick

| Peter J. Devlin

| Theodore Soderberg

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="14" | 4

| A. W. Watkins

| Al Overton Jr.

| Carlos Delarios

| Charles L. Lootens

| Dennis S. Sands

| Doc Kane

| Jeffrey J. Haboush

| Peter Kurland

| Ren Klyce

| Richard Tyler

| Sam Slyfield

| Terry Porter

| Tod A. Maitland

| Tony Dawe

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="26" | 3

| Ben Burtt

| Chris Carpenter

| Christopher Newman

| David J. Hudson

| David M. Ronne

| Dean Zupancic

| Don J. Bassman

| Graham V. Hartstone

| Gregory H. Watkins

| Harry W. Tetrick

| Herman Lewis

| James L. Fields

| John Pritchett

| Jon Taylor

| Kevin F. Cleary

| Larry Jost

| Mac Ruth

| Mel Metcalfe

| Nicolas Le Messurier

| Richard Overton

| Robert J. Litt

| Robert O. Cook

| Robert Thirlwell

| Steven A. Morrow

| Tony Johnson

| Wesley C. Miller

| style="text-align: center;" rowspan="36" | 2

| Ai-Ling Lee

| Bill Nelson

| Brian Chumney

| Bud Alper

| Carl Dreher

| Christopher Scarabosio

| Craig Berkey

| Curly Thirlwell

| David Giammarco

| Drew Kunin

| Geoffrey Patterson

| George Dutton

| Gerry Humphreys

| Homer G. Tasker

| James R. Alexander

| Jay M. Harding

| Jeff Wexler

| John Aldred

| John Boyd

| John W. Mitchell

| Jose Antonio Garcia

| Les Lazarowitz

| Mary H. Ellis

| Michael A. Carter

| Nelson Stoll

| Paul Wells

| Petur Hliddal

| Robert W. Glass Jr.

| Robin Gregory

| Robin O'Donoghue

| Ron Bartlett

| Scott D. Smith

| Tom Beckert

| Tom Ozanich

| Walt Martin

| William A. Mueller

Multiple awards and nominations for Best Sound Editing

Multiple awards

;5 awards

Richard King

;4 awards

Ben Burtt †

;3 awards

Charles L. Campbell
Per Hallberg
Richard Hymns
Gary Rydstrom

;2 awards

Bub Asman
Karen Baker Landers
Christopher Boyes
Mike Hopkins
Stephen Hunter Flick †
Alan Robert Murray
Paul N. J. Ottosson
George Watters II
Ethan Van der Ryn

Multiple nominations

;10 nominations

Alan Robert Murray

;9 nominations

Richard Hymns

;8 nominations

Gary Rydstrom
George Watters II
Ben Burtt †

;7 nominations

Wylie Stateman

;6 nominations

Bub Asman
Christopher Boyes
Richard King
Mark Mangini
Michael Silvers
Ethan Van der Ryn

;5 nominations

Stephen Hunter Flick †
Bruce Stambler
Matthew Wood

;4 nominations

Lon Bender
Charles L. Campbell
Per Hallberg
John Leveque
Randy Thom

;3 nominations

Richard L. Anderson †
Mike Hopkins
Skip Lievsay
Paul N. J. Ottosson
Mark Stoeckinger
Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
John Wilkinson (sound engineer)

;2 nominations

Erik Aadahl
Karen Baker Landers
Tom Bellfort
Steve Boeddeker
Gloria S. Borders
Robert Bratton
Brent Burge
Glenn Freemantle
Eugene Gearty
Cecelia Hall
Robert G. Henderson
Martin Hernández
Mildred Iatrou Morgan
Ren Klyce
Ai-Ling Lee
Tom Myers
Walter Rossi
Philip Stockton
Oliver Tarney

† = includes special achievement awards

Age superlatives

{| class="wikitable"

! scope="col" |Record

! scope="col" |Sound engineer

! scope="col" |Film

! scope="col" |Age

|Oldest winner

| rowspan="2" |Richard King

| rowspan="2" |Dune: Part Two

|85 years, 25 days

|Oldest nominee

|84 years, 352 days

|Youngest winner

|Christopher Boyes

|Titanic

|25-26 years

|Youngest nominee

|Larry Johnson

|Woodstock

|23 years, 257 days

Shortlisted finalists

Finalists for Best Sound are selected by the Sound Branch. Sound Branch members shall vote in order of their preference for not more than ten pictures to be considered for the Sound award. The ten motion pictures receiving the highest number of votes shall advance to the next round of voting. Finalists listed from 1981 to 2005 are for the now defunct award for Best Sound Effects Editing.

! 1968

| Blackbeard's Ghost, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Head, Hell in the Pacific, The Lion in Winter, The Odd Couple, The Shoes of the Fisherman, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Yours, Mine and Ours

! 1969

| Downhill Racer, Paint Your Wagon, The Reivers, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, The Wild Bunch

! 1970

| Cromwell, The Great White Hope, The Hawaiians, Little Big Man, Scrooge

! 1971

| A Clockwork Orange, Dirty Harry, The Last Picture Show, Le Mans, Shaft

! 1972

| Avanti!, Deliverance, Lady Sings the Blues, Man of La Mancha, Pete 'n' Tillie

! 1973

| Dillinger, Oklahoma Crude, The Seven-Ups, The Way We Were, Westworld

! 1974

| Airport 1975, The Front Page, The Godfather Part II, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Zandy's Bride

! 1975

| Barry Lyndon, Lucky Lady, Nashville, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Sunshine Boys

! 1976

| Logan's Run, Midway, Network, The Omen, Silent Movie

! 1977

| Black Sunday, Julia, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, MacArthur, Rollercoaster

! 1978

| The Boys from Brazil, Grease, The Lord of the Rings, Midnight Express, An Unmarried Woman

! 1979

| All That Jazz, The Black Hole, The China Syndrome, Rocky II, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

! 1981

| Dragonslayer, Heaven's Gate, Reds, Sharky's Machine, Sphinx, Stripes, Superman II, Time Bandits, Wolfen

| rowspan=25|

! 1982

| Conan the Barbarian, The Dark Crystal, Gandhi, Tron

! 1983

| Blue Thunder, The Golden Seal, Never Cry Wolf, Sudden Impact, WarGames

! 1984

| Dune, Gremlins, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 2010: The Year We Make Contact

! 1985

| American Flyers, The Emerald Forest, Runaway Train, Year of the Dragon

! 1986

| The Color of Money, Platoon, Tai-Pan

! 1987

| Batteries Not Included, Cry Freedom, Full Metal Jacket, Lethal Weapon, Predator, The Witches of Eastwick

! 1988

| Beetlejuice, Mississippi Burning

! 1989

| Born on the Fourth of July, Glory, The Winter War

! 1990

| Dances With Wolves, Goodfellas

! 1991

| Beauty and the Beast, For the Boys, Hook, The Last Boy Scout

! 1992

| The Last of the Mohicans, Lethal Weapon 3, Patriot Games, Unforgiven

! 1993

| Geronimo: An American Legend

! 1994

| The Shawshank Redemption, True Lies

! 1995

| Apollo 13, Heat, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Waterworld

! 1996

| Independence Day, The Rock, Star Trek: First Contact, Twister

! 1997

| Con Air, L.A. Confidential, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Men in Black

! 1998

| Godzilla, Lethal Weapon 4, Ronin, The Thin Red Line

! 1999

| Any Given Sunday, The Green Mile, The Mummy, Three Kings

! 2000

| Cast Away, Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, The Perfect Storm, Unbreakable

! 2001

| A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Amélie, Black Hawk Down, The Fast and the Furious, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

! 2002

| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Spider-Man, We Were Soldiers, xXx

! 2003

| Kill Bill: Volume 1, The Last Samurai, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Seabiscuit

! 2004

| The Aviator, Collateral, The Day After Tomorrow, Ray

! 2005

| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Walk the Line, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

! 2021

| Last Night in Soho, The Matrix Resurrections, A Quiet Place Part II, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tick, Tick...Boom!

! 2022

| Babylon, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Moonage Daydream

! 2023

| Barbie, Ferrari, The Killer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon

! 2024

| Alien: Romulus, Blitz, Deadpool & Wolverine, Gladiator II, Joker: Folie à Deux

! 2025

| Avatar: Fire and Ash, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Superman, Wicked: For Good

Academy Award for Best Sound

Winners and nominees

1930s

2020s

Multiple nominations and awards for Best Sound Mixing

Multiple awards and nominations for Best Sound Editing

Multiple awards

Multiple nominations

Age superlatives

Shortlisted finalists

See also

Notes

References