OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING

Brandon Proctor, Micah Bloomberg & Gillian Arthur for All is Lost

Myron Nettinga, John Ross & Tom Williams for American Hustle

Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead & Chris Munro for Gravity

Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff & Peter F. Kurland for Inside Llewyn Davis

Andy Koyama, Beau Borders & David Brownlow for Lone Survivor

AND THE WINNER IS:

SKIP LIEVSAY, NIV ADIRI, CHRISTOPHER BENSTEAD & CHRIS MUNRO FOR GRAVITY

This is the first win and nomination for Niv Adiri & Christopher Benstead. Chris Munro wins his first after two previously nominations for sound mixing Black Hawk Down (2001) & Casino Royale (2006). This is the second win and fifth nomination for Skip Lievsay previously winning for sound mixing No Country for Old Men (2007). He was also nominated for sound editing Fargo (1996), mixing The Big Lebowski (1998), editing No Country for Old Men & mixing True Grit (2010).

While I did not respond to the Stephen Price score of gravity as it felt it did not work well and almost distracted from all that was on screen. The sound mix of the film used silence as a great advantage to the film as it used silence in space the normal sound for the great beyond that we never see. Even when their was many meteor shows and explosions the choice to have have some silent felt real to the space that not many have experienced.