Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) winners: Dunkirk, Blade Runner, Apes all hit the mark

The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE), always the last top guild to announce before the Oscars, has revealed their Golden Reel winners and they’ve really spread the wealth. The three top categories – Dialogue/ADR, Effects/Foley and Music Score all went to three different films in direct competition with each other. War for the Planet of the Apes took Dialogue, Blade Runner 2049 took Effects/Foley and Dunkirk took Music. The latter two are competing for the Sound Editing Oscar, the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) announces next weekend. With Dunkirk winning the Sound award at BAFTA this weekend, it tips the favor in its hand a bit.

Last year, Hacksaw Ridge won both Dialogue/ADR and Effects/Foley that resulted in a Sound Mixing Oscar win, while Arrival won the Oscar for Sound Editing. Find out who the Gold Rush Gang thinks will win Sound Editing here.

Here are the nominees and winners (in bold) for the Golden Reel awards from the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) guild.

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue / ADR
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Detroit
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri
War for the Planet of the Apes

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Effects / Foley
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
Logan
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Shape of Water
Thor: Ragnarok
War for the Planet of the Apes

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Music Score
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
The Lost City of Z
The Shape of Water
Transformers: The Last Knight
Wonder Woman

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Musical
Beauty and the Beast
Coco
The Greatest Showman

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Animation
Cars 3
Coco
Despicable Me 3
Ferdinand
The Breadwinner
The Lego Batman Movie

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Documentary
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Bill Nye: The Science Guy
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS
Icarus
In Pursuit of Silence
Jane
Score: A Film Music Documentary

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Foreign Language Feature
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
First They Killed My Father
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
Loveless
Thelma
Wolf Warrior 2

For a complete list of winners go to www.mpse.org.

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