Okay, so the 2012 nominations from the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) weren’t as helpful as I thought they would be as they have several categories and several nominees in each. So when predicting Best Sound Editing it is essentially a crap shoot though I was happy to see most of the contenders I had in my database before this did earn nominations.
In an effort to keep this short and simple, my #1 pick goes to Ben Burtt’s work on Super 8 followed in order by Hugo, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, War Horse and The Adventures of Tintin. Yeah, that sounds good enough to me and you can browse my seven other contenders in the category at my official Oscar predictions page right here.
Otherwise, the MPSE will announce their winners on February 19, five days before the Oscars and just in time to help us predict the winner. I’ve included all of their film nominees and you can check out their television nominees by using the navigation on the right of their official site right here.
BEST SOUND EDITING: SOUND EFFECTS AND FOLEY IN A FEATURE FILM
- Drive
- Fast Five
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Super 8
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- War Horse
BEST SOUND EDITING: MUSIC IN A FEATURE FILM
- Drive
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Hop
- Hugo
- Priest
- Super 8
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- The Tree of Life
BEST SOUND EDITING: DIALOGUE AND ADR IN A FEATURE FILM
- Abduction
- The Help
- Moneyball
- Quarantine II: Terminal
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Super 8
- War Horse
- The Way
BEST SOUND EDITING: MUSIC IN A MUSICAL FEATURE FILM
- Footloose
- The Muppets
- Perfect Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll
- Pina
BEST SOUND EDITING: SOUND EFFECTS, FOLEY, DIALOGUE, AND ADR IN AN ANIMATION FEATURE FILM
- The Adventures of Tintin
- Cars 2
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- Puss in Boots
- Rango
- Rio
- The Smurfs
BEST SOUND EDITING: SOUND EFFECTS, FOLEY, DIALOGUE, ADR AND MUSIC IN A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
- Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
- Cave of the Forgotten Dreams
- George Harrison: Living in the Material World
- Lemmy
- Pearl Jam Twenty
BEST SOUND EDITING: SOUND EFFECTS, FOLEY, DIALOGUE AND ADR IN A FEATURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
- 1920. The World’s Most Important Battle
- Circumstance
- Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within)
- The Flowers of War
- In the Land of Blood and Honey
- Sarah’s Key
- The Skin I Live In
