The Motion Picture Sound Editors held the last guild ceremony of awards season on Saturday night, the Golden Reel Awards, with Oscar sound-editing nominees “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Revenant” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” all winning awards.
“Mad Max” and “The Revenant” tied in the category that most closely resembles the Oscar Best Sound Editing category: Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film.
The two films are considered the two frontrunners for the Oscar in that category.
“Star Wars” won for the sound editing of its musical score.
Other feature films that received awards in the Golden Reels’ seven film categories were “Bridge of Spies,” for dialogue and ADR; “Love & Mercy,” for music in a musical feature; and “Inside Out,” “Son of Saul” and “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,” for sound editing in an animated feature, foreign-language film and documentary feature, respectively.
In the television categories, “Game of Thrones” won two awards, while other honors went to “House of Cards,” “Empire,” “Bessie,” “Texas Rising” and “Saints and Strangers.”
The Golden Reel Awards were held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites in downtown Los Angeles. The MPSE Career Achievement Award was given to Richard King, while the MPSE Filmmaker Award went to director Sam Raimi.
The winners:
FEATURE FILM CATEGORIES
SOUND EFFECTS & FOLEY IN A FEATURE FILM
(tie) “Mad Max: Fury Road,” Mark Mangini, Scott Hecker, Wayne Pashley, Stuart Morton, David White, Julian Slater, John Simpson, Blair Slater, Fabian Sanjurjo, Cate Cahill, Chris Aud, Chuck Michael, Rick Lisle, Andrew Miller, Emma Mitchell, Alicia Slusarski, Mario Gabrielli, Nigel Christensen, Phil Barrie, Michael Mitchell, Jared Dwyer
“The Revenant,” Martín Hernández, Randy Thom, Lon Bender, Jon Title, Geordy Sincavage, Todd Toon, Mark Larry, Dino DiMuro, Adam Kopald, Pernell L. Salinas, Bill Dean, D. Chris Smith, MPSE, Hector Gika, David McMoyler, Stephen Robinson, Nancy MacCleod, Ryan Wassil, Aran Tanchum, Katy Rose, Gretchen Thomas, Rick Owens, Vincent Guisetti, Catherine Harper, Gregg Barbanell, Andrea Gard
DIALOGUE & ADR IN A FEATURE FILM
“Bridge Of Spies,” Richard Hymns, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Steve Slanec
SOUND EFFECTS, FOLEY, DIALOGUE & ADR IN AN ANIMATION FEATURE FILM
“Inside Out,” Shannon Mills and Ren Klyce, Daniel Laurie, Stephen M. Davis, John Roesch, Alyson Dee Moore, David C. Hughes, Malcolm Fife, Jeremy Bowker, Tom Brennan
MUSIC SCORE IN A FEATURE FILM
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Paul Apelgren, Ramiro Belgardt
MUSIC IN A MUSICAL FEATURE FILM
“Love & Mercy,” Nicholas Renbeck
SOUND EFFECTS, FOLEY, DIALOGUE & ADR IN A FOREIGN FEATURE FILM
“Son Of Saul,” Tamas Zanyi, Tamas Beke, Tamas Szekely
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
“Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck,” Cameron Frankley, Dan Kenyon, Jon Michaels
TELEVISION CATEGORIES
SOUND EFFECTS, FOLEY, DIALOGUE AND ADR ANIMATION IN TELEVISION
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Annihilation Earth,” Jeff Shiffman, Elliot Herman, Roger Pallan, Alex Ullrich, Jessey Drake, Anna Adams
TELEVISION – SHORT FORM: DIALOGUE & ADR
“Game of Thrones: Hardhome,” Tim Kimmel, Paul Bercovitch, Tim Hands
TELEVISION – SHORT FORM: SOUND EFFECTS & FOLEY
“Game of Thrones: Hardhome,” Tim Kimmel, Paula Fairfield, Brett Voss, Jeffrey Wilhoit, Dylan Wilhoit, Bradley Katona, John Matter
TELEVISION – SHORT FORM: MUSIC
“House of Cards: Chapter 33,” Jonathon Stevens, Marie Ebbing
TELEVISION – SHORT FORM: MUSICAL
“Empire: Die But Once,” Joshua Winget
TELEVISION – LONG FORM: DIALOGUE & ADR
“Bessie,” Damian Volpe, Tony Martinez, Mary Ellen Porto, Brian Bowles
TELEVISION – LONG FORM: SOUND EFFECTS & FOLEY
“Texas Rising Night 4,” John Laing, Thomas Bielic, Steve Baine, Simon Meilleur, Tyler Witham, Mike Mancuso, Adam Stein
TELEVISION – LONG FORM: MUSIC
“Saints & Strangers: Night 2,” Del Spiva, Nicholas Fitzgerald
TELEVISION – LONG FORM: MUSICAL
“Teen Beach 2,” Amber Funk, Sharyn Gersh
SHORT FORM DOCUMENTARY IN TELEVISION
“India’s Daughter,” Resul Pookutty, Amrit Pritam, Resul Pookutty, Vijaykumar Madahevayah, Karnall Singh, Sailan Choudhary, Sampath Alwar, Krsna Solo
LONG FORM DOCUMENTARY IN TELEVISION
“The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs,” Jason Schmidt, Mead Stone, Gary Winter
DIRECT TO VIDEO ANIMATION
“Tinkerbell and the Legend of the Neverbeast,” Todd Toon, Thomas Whiting, Charles Martin Inouye, Martin Zub, John Boesch, Shelley Roden, Adam Konald, Charles W. Ritter, Charlie Champagna, Pernell L. Salinas, Jim Harrison, Dominick Certo, Tommy Holmes
DIRECT TO VIDEO LIVE ACTION
“All the Wilderness,” Trip Brock, Steven Avila, Ian Shedd, Ben Whitver, Sanaa Cannella, Matthew Salib, Alexander Pugh, Rickley Dumm, Jackie Johnson, Terry Boyd Jr., Kenny Woods
COMPUTER, VIDEOGAME AND SPECIAL VENUE CATEGORIES
BEST SOUND EDITING & MUSIC: COMPUTER EPISODIC ENTERTAINMENT (WEBISODE)
“Joy Ride: Prequal,” Charles Deenen, Csaba Wagner, Braden Parkes
BEST SOUND EDITING & MUSIC: GAME CINEMATICS
“Halo 5: Guardians,” Bryan Watkins, Mitchell Osias, Christopher Cody Flick, Goeun Lee, Sotaro Tojima, Kazuma Jinnouchi, Kyle Fraser, Adolfo H. Santisteban, John Roesch, Alyson Moore, Shelly Roden, Luis Galdames, Roland Thai, Tom Ozanich, Noa Lothian, Leanardo Barragan, Chase Thompson
BEST SOUND EDITING & MUSIC: SPECIAL VENUE
“Journey to Space,” Brian Eimer, Josh Vamos, Michael Bonini, Max Braverman, Keith Munson
VERNA FIELDS AWARD IN SOUND EDITING FOR STUDENT FILMMAKERS
“Fulfilament,” Matis Rei, Filip Silanec
FILMMAKER AWARD: Sam Raimi
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Richard King