Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Nominations: Baby, Baby, Baby

The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) are always the last guild to reveal nominations and they can often give us the final clues to those sound categories as we edit our Oscar predictions in the 11th hour.

The two big categories, Dialogue/ADR and Effects/Foley are the ones to pay attention to when it comes to Oscar and this year five films hit both: Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water and War for the Planet of the Apes. Will this be our Sound Editing Oscar top 5? It very well could be with high profile misses like Wonder Woman and Get Out. It bodes well that Best Picture frontrunner Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was able to score here, checking off yet another guild. Less surprising is the speech-heavy Darkest Hour.

Last year Sully earned a nomination in the Dialogue/ADR category on its way to a Sound Editing Oscar nomination. On the flip side, La La Land did not show up here and was nominated anyway as a part of its 14-nomination sweep.

The Motion Picture Sound Editors guild will announce their winners in a ceremony in Los Angeles on February 18th.

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