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David Barber Named Motion Picture Sound Editors President
Supervising sound editor and rerecording mixer David Barber has been elected to a two-year term as president of Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE), the organization that puts on the annual Golden Reel Awards for sound editing. He succeeds Mark Lanza, who reached his term limit after four years as president. Miguel Araujo was reelected secretary, […]
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‘The Matrix’ Sound Editor and Designer to Receive Career Achievement Award
Supervising sound editor and designer Dane A. Davis — who won an Oscar for 1999’s The Matrix — will receive Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Career Achievement Award during the org’s 71st annual Golden Reel Awards, which will be held March 3 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. “With his work on The Matrix, Dane Davis set […]
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Motion Picture Sound Editors Waive Member Dues in Response to Strikes
The board of the Motion Picture Sound Editors — the organization that produces the annual Golden Reel Awards — has voted unanimously to waive dues payments for its members for the current year amid the ongoing writers and actors strikes that have left many of its members of out of work. “We want our members […]
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MPSE Career Achievement Award Honoree Gwendolyn Yates Whittle On ‘Avatar 2’ and Women in Sound
When supervising sound editor Gwendolyn Yates Whittle accepts her career achievement award on Feb. 26 at the 70th Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Awards, she’ll be only the third woman to do so. “I’m hoping to start a trend of more women getting more recognition,” Yates Whittle, who worked on Avatar: The Way of […]
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Leads Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Nominations
CAPTIONPHOTO CREDIT With a trio of nominations, Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the feature competition of the 70th Motion Picture Sound Editors’ (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards, which announced its noms on Monday. Close behind with two nominations apiece are The Batman, Elvis, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Moonage Daydream and Top Gun: Maverick. A24’s genre-bending […]
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‘Dune,’ ‘Nightmare Alley,’ ‘West Side Story’ Receive Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Awards
Dune, West Side Story and Nightmare Alley won one award apiece during the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 69th annual Golden Reel Awards, which were presented virtually Sunday. The sound editing team for Dune (Legendary/Warner Bros.), won the award for effects/Foley; West Side Story (Searchlight), for music; and Nightmare Alley (Searchlight), for dialogue/ADR. Dune and West […]
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MPSE Golden Reel Awards Nominations Announced
The Motion Picture Sound Editors has revealed the nominations for its 69th annual Golden Reel Awards in categories spanning feature film, television, animation, computer entertainment and student productions. The awards will be presented March 13 during a virtual event due to COVID-19. Dune, The Matrix Resurrections, Nightmare Alley and A Quiet Place Part II lead […]
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