SOUND EDITING: Gwendolyn Yates Whittle points to the scene where Jake Sully connects to the Tree of Voices. “We sound designed some whispery voices that wafted in,” she explains. “Then very gradually ...

Guillermo del Toro will receive the MPSE Filmmaker Award during the ceremony. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor In all, the Golden Reel Awards has 23 categories encompassing feature films, television, ...

Sound editors essentially choose the aural palette that create the soundscape of a film, often finding sounds make “dramatic sense” (as sound guru Randy Thom explains it) even if they don’t represent ...

The Oscars are back. Every year, it is night of celebration, celebrity-filled red carpets, well-tailored suits, glamorous dresses, and ... confusion. No, we're not talking envelopes. We're talking ...

From dialogue to music, the sounds you hear in movies are multilayered. More often than not, these sounds are brought together in postproduction to create an immersive aural experience that requires a ...

Sound design is woefully underappreciated, but the Academy's new Best Sound category is a better reflection of the craft in the digital age. Let’s get this out of the way: Great films tell stories ...

Don’t know what sound editing is? That is probably because a sound editor’s work is most noticeable is when they are doing it poorly. The job of a sound editor is to take all the background noise, ...

Martin Lopez is a former San Diego resident who now works as a sound editor and designer in LA. He clarifies what the difference is between the Oscar categories of Sound Mixing and Sound Editing ...

Peter Berg‘s underrated “Lone Survivor” received its lone Oscar nominations in the sound editing and mixing categories, but it’s well-deserved. The fact-based adventure about a failed Navy SEAL ...

How do aliens sound in an emotional, psychological, science fiction universe? This was one of many questions faced by French-Canadian sound editor Sylvain Bellemare in overseeing the development of a ...

"Avatar" and "Star Trek," with three noms each, lead the list of nominations for the Motion Picture Sound Editors 2010 Golden Reel Awards. By Gregg Kilday, The Associated Press “Avatar” and “Star Trek ...