Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE), the premier organization of entertainment sound editing professionals since 1953, announced today the nominations for the 72nd Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards, honoring outstanding achievement in sound editing, sound design, music editing and foley artistry in film, television and gaming.
For feature films, Deadpool & Wolverine and Dune: Part Two led with three nominations in the categories of Feature Dialogue/ADR, Feature Effects/Foley and Music Editing. Alien: Romulus, A Complete Unknown, Emilia Pérez and Wicked grabbed two nominations each.
In television, The Penguin and Ripley are out in front with three apiece while The Bear, Baby Reindeer, Masters of the Air and The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power were among the shows with two mentions.
As previously announced, two honorary awards will also be presented at the gala: Kevin Costner will receive the Filmmaker Award and supervising sound editor Greg Hedgepath, MPSE will receive the Career Achievement Award.
Winners will be announced at the annual gala on February 23, 2025 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Here is the full list of nominations.
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Dialogue / ADR
Alien: Romulus / 20th Century Studios
Supervising Sound Editors: Will Files MPSE, Lee Gilmore MPSE
Sound Editor: Matt “Smokey” Cloud MPSE
Supervising Dialogue Editor: Polly McKinnon
Dialogue Editors: David Butler, Ryan Cole MPSE, Jacob Riehle, Ailene Roberts MPSE
A Complete Unknown / Searchlight Pictures
Supervising Sound Editor: Donald Sylvester
Dialogue Editors: Russell Farmarco MPSE, Anna MacKenzie, Robert Troy
Deadpool & Wolverine / Marvel Studios
Supervising Sound Editor: Craig Henighan MPSE
Dialogue Editor: Emma Present
Dune: Part Two / Warner Bros. Pictures
Supervising Dialogue Editor: Martin Kwok
Dialogue Editors: Ray Beentjes, Polly McKinnon, Stefanie Ng
ADR Editor: David Bach
Crowd Editors: Alexis Feodoroff, Justin Webster
Saturday Night / Columbia Pictures
Supervising Sound Editors: David Butler, Will Files MPSE, Lee Gilmore MPSE
Dialogue Editors: Helen Lutrell, Emma Present
Wicked / Universal Pictures
Supervising Sound Editors: John Marquis, Nancy Nugent Title
Supervising Dialogue Editor: John C. Stuver
Dialogue Editor: David Bach
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Effects / Foley
Alien: Romulus / 20th Century Studios
Supervising Sound Editors: Will Files MPSE, Lee Gilmore MPSE
Sound Designer: Chris Terhune
Sound Effects Editors: Luis Galdames MPSE, Dan Kenyon, Ken McGill MPSE, James Miller, Matt “Smokey” Cloud MPSE, Steve Neal MPSE
Foley Editors: Samuel Munoz, Lyndsey Schenk MPSE
Foley Artists: Jacob McNaughton, Noel Vought
Deadpool & Wolverine
Supervising Sound Editors: Ryan Cole MPSE, Craig Henighan MPSE
Sound Designers: Samson Neslund, Eric A. Norris MPSE, Addison Teague
Sound Effects Editors: Lee Gilmore MPSE, J.R. Grubbs
Foley Editors: Pete Persaud, Gina Wark
Foley Artist: Steve Baine
Dune: Part Two / Warner Bros. Pictures
Supervising Sound Editor: Richard King
Sound Designers: Dave Whitehead MPSE, Michael Babcock, Lee Gilmore MPSE, Randy Torres
Sound Effects Editors: Brent Burge, Hayden Collow, Melanie Graham, Michael Mitchell, Jeff Sawyer, Matt Stutter MPSE, Chris Terhune
Supervising Foley Editor: Chris Flick
Foley Editor: Willard Overstreet
Foley Artists: John Cucci, Dan O’Connell
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga / Warner Bros. Pictures
Supervising Sound Editor: Robert Mackenzie
Sound Effects Editors: Tom Heuzenroeder, Tara Webb
Foley Editors: Duncan Campbell, Adrian Medhurst MPSE
Nosferatu / Focus Features
Supervising Sound Editor: Damian Volpe MPSE
Sound Designers: Michael Fentum, Damian Volpe MPSE
What We Do in the Shadows: “Come Out and Play” / FX
Supervising Sound Editor: Steffan Falesitch
Sound Effects Editor: David Barbee MPSE
ADR Editor: Mark Relyea MPSE
Dialogue Editor: Paul Bercovitch
Supervising Foley Editor: Sam C. Lewis MPSE
Foley Editor: Lyndsey Schenk MPSE
Foley Artists: Adam DeCoster, Alex Ullrich MPSE
Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Broadcast Long Form
Fallout: “The End” / Amazon Prime
Music Editors: Clint Bennet, Christopher Kaller
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: “Doomed to Die” / Amazon Prime
Music Editor: Jason Smith MPSE
The Penguin: “Cent’Anni” / HBO Max
Supervising Music Editor: Ben Holiday
Music Editors: Chad Birmingham, Luke Dennis
Ripley: “VIII NARCISSUS” / Netflix
Music Editors: Dan Evans Farkas, Ben Schor
Salem’s Lot / HBO Max
Supervising Music Editor: Andrew Silver MPSE
Music Editor: John Carbonara
Slow Horses: “Returns” / Apple TV+
Music Editor: Ben Smithers
Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Broadcast Short Form
Baby Reindeer: Episode 1 / Netflix
Music Editor: Jack Sugden
The Bear: “Doors” / FX
Music Editors: Jason Lingle, Jeff Lingle
Only Murders in the Building: “My Best Friend’s Wedding” / Hulu
Music Editor: Michah Liberman
Shrinking: “Last Drink” / Apple TV+
Music Editor: Richard Brown MPSE
We Are Lady Parts: “The Reason” / Peacock
Music Editor: Andy Patterson MPSE
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Game Dialogue / ADR
Batman: Arkham Shadow
Supervising Dialogue Editor: Mark Camperell MPSE
Dialogue Editors: Charlie Gondak, Daniel Khim MPSE, Austin Krier MPSE, Matthew Kulewicz MPSE, Amanda McDonnell, Ryan Ongaro, Kerri Shak
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Audio Lead: Jacob Harley, Jeremiah Sypult, Brian Tuey
Audio Directors: Ian Mika
Supervising Sound Editor: Charles Deenen
Supervising Dialogue Editor: Robert Jackson
Senior Audio Artist: Ryan Garigliano
Dialogue Editors: Jessica Arkoff, Socrates Ayala, Kelli Baffoni, Tom Boyd, Roman Fusco, Cesar Marenco MPSE, Kevin Patel, Brandon Roos, Ruge Sun, Dani Turner, Rob Weiss, Maggie Wolf
Dialogue Editors: Alex Baghdassarian MPSE, Bryan Borders, Garrett Hernandez
Star Wars Outlaws
Lead Voice Designer: Charles Pateman
Voice Designers: Alain Abbyad, Antoine Deseille, Oskar Hansson, Marla Kishimoto, Hanna Witulska
Until Dawn
Supervising Dialogue Editor: Nick Gratwick
Senior Dialogue Designer: Paola Velasquez
Dialogue Designer: Andrea Contino
Dialogue Editor: Damian O’Sullivan
Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Game Music
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Audio Directors: Alex Hemlock, Jeremiah Sypult, Brian Tuey
Supervising Sound Editor: Charles Deenen
Music Editors: Brian DiDomenico, Jim Lordeman
Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred
Audio Director: Kris Giampa
Music Director: Derek Duke
Supervising Music Editor: Ted Reedy
Senior Music Editor: Adam Burgess
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Audio Director: Cody Behiel
Supervising Music Editor: Ron Dazo
Music Editors: Steven Silvers, Morgan Fryer-McCulloch, Ben YJ Hung, Lauren Kott
Helldivers 2
Music Director: Keith Leary
Supervising Music Editor: Scott Shoemaker
Music Editors: Sonia Coronado, Collin Lewis
Star Wars Outlaws
Audio Director: Simon Koudriavtsev
Senior Music Designer: Erik Jacobsson
Music Supervisor: Manu Bachet
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Game Effects / Foley
Batman: Arkham Shadow
Technical Sound Designer: Haroon Piracha
Sound Design Lead: Jon Ruse
Sound Designers: Tyler Hayden, Kyle Lammerding
Senior Audio Designer: Ryan David Kull
Lead Audio Designer: Julian Korzeniowsky
Audio Programmer: Alex Stopher
Audio Designers: Lee Banyard, Scott Gilmore, Ryan McSweeney, Travis Naas, Stefan Rutherford, Matthew Wright
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Audio Directors: Adam Boyd MPSE, Trevor Bresaw, Ian Mika, Jeremiah Sypult, Brian Tuey
Supervising Sound Editor: Charles Deenen
Lead Sound Designers: Collin Ayers, Jai Berger, Darren Blondin, John Drelick, Nick Martin, Kevin Sherwood
Sound Designers: Mark Camperell MPSE, Nick D’Amato, Tom David, James Evans, Daniel P. Francis MPSE, Luis Galdames MPSE, Nick Interlandi, Austin Krier MPSE, Jim Lecroy, James Miller, Garrett Montgomery MPSE, Josh Moore, Michael Newton, Dominik Ragančík, Jordan Ruhala, Matthew Schaff MPSE, Nick Spradlin, Darrell Tung, Bryan O. Watkins
Technical Sound Designers: Sunglae Park, William Wise III
Expert Sound Designers: Andy Bayless, Cameron Britton, Scott Eckert
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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.