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In the run-up to the 2021 Oscars, the academy combined its Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing categories into one. The films competing for the third annual award for Best Sound are All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Batman, Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick. Our current odds suggest Top Gun: Maverick (16/5) will win, followed by All Quiet on the Western Front (19/5), Avatar: The Way of Water (9/2 ), “Elvis” (9/2) and “The Batman” (9/2).

The 23 artisans in the current line-up have amassed a whopping 72 previous nominations and 16 wins for their solid work. The one responsible for the biggest chunk Andy Nelsonwhose dual applications for The Batman and Elvis bring him to a record-breaking career total of 24. He is now the third person to receive two nominations at once in this consolidated category, after “Mank” and “Soul”. sound engineers Ren Klyce And David Parker in 2021.

Nelson has two wins in the past with Saving Private Ryan (1999) and Les Misérables (2013). He shared the first gary summer, whose current nomination for Avatar: The Way of Water is his 12th overall. Summers, previously recognized (alongside Nelson) for his work on the original Avatar in 2010, has also credited for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1992), Jurassic Park (1994) and Titanic (1998). . Also in the “Avatar” sequel team is the 14-time candidate Christopher Boyes and five-time contender Michael Hecken, both of which won for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004) and King Kong (2006). Boyes was also successful in his candidatures for Titanic and Pearl Harbor (2002).

The four current Sound nominees, each with a previous win, are Stuart Wilson (“The Batman”; “1917”, 2020), David Lee (“Elvis”; “Matrix”, 2000), Mark Taylor (“Top Gun: Maverick”; “1917”) and Markus Weingarten (“Top Gun: Maverick”; “Dunkirk,” 2018). The three returning competitors without wins are Gwendolyn Yates Whittle (“Avatar: The Way of Water”) and “Top Gun: Maverick” together Chris Burdon And James Mather.

Including the aforementioned, there have been 11 past instances where two or more 2023 Sound contenders have been nominated as members of the same team. These remaining half-dozen cases involved Boyes and Hedges (“The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” 2003 and “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” 2014), Boyes and Whittle (“Avatar”), Nelson and Wilson (“War Horse ‘, 2012 and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, 2016) and Burdon and Taylor (‘Captain Phillips’, 2014).

Newcomers to this year’s lineup include five from “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Lars Gingel, Stefan Korte, Frank Kruse, Victor PrasilAnd Markus Stemler), two each from Avatar: The Way of Water (Dick Bernstein And Julian Howath), “The Batman” (will files And Douglas Murray) and “Elvis” (Michael Keller And Wayne Pashley) and one from Top Gun: Maverick (Al Nelson).

The first two Best Sound Awards went to “Sound of Metal” (2021) and “Dune” (2022). The last films to win prior to the merger of Best Audio Editing and Best Audio Mixing were Ford v. Ferrari” or “1917”. This year’s Best Soundtrack winner will be announced during the 95th Annual Academy Awards, which will air March 12 on ABC.

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