Motion Picture Sound Editors announce 61st Golden Reel Awards – nominations

The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) have announced the feature film nominees for its 61st MPSE Golden Reel Awards (http://mpse.org). Nominees represent the work of talented film editors and their contributions to the best films of the past year. Nominations for television, animation and computer entertainment categories will be announced on Friday, January 17.

“2013 was a year of incredible movies — and incredible movie sound,” notes MPSE president, Frank Morrone. “Sound editors continued to advance their craft and find new and innovative ways to help filmmakers tell stories. We congratulate this year’s nominees for their outstanding work.”

The MPSE Golden Reel Awards recognize outstanding achievement in sound editing in 22 categories encompassing feature films, television, animation, computer entertainment and student work. The 61st MPSE Golden Reel Awards will be held on February 16, 2014 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites in Los Angeles.

The following is a complete list of film nominees:


BEST SOUND EDITING: SOUND EFFECTS AND FOLEY IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE FEATURE
12 Years a Slave
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Fast & Furious 6
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Lone Survivor

BEST SOUND EDITING: DIALOGUE AND ADR IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE FEATURE
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor

BEST SOUND EDITING IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE (ENGLISH OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE) (INCLUDES ADR, DIALOGUE, SOUND EFFECTS AND FOLEY)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Epic
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
Monsters University
Planes

BEST SOUND EDITING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE (INCLUDES ADR, DIALOGUE, SOUND EFFECTS, AND FOLEY
Blue Is the Warmest Color
The Grandmaster
The Past
Wadjda

BEST SOUND EDITING - MUSIC IN A FEATURE (ENGLISH OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Frozen
Inside Llewyn Davis
Justin Bieber’s Believe
Metallica Through the Never

BEST SOUND EDITING - MUSIC IN A FEATURE (ENGLISH OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
12 Years a Slave
47 Ronin
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
World War Z

BEST SOUND EDITING IN A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - FOREIGN LANGUAGE
“1”
20 Feet from Stardom
CinemAbility
Dirty Wars
Good Ol’ Freda
Muscle Shoals
Rising from Ashes
Sound City