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The Academy Award of Merit for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound editing or sound design. The award is usually received by the Supervising Sound Editors of the film, perhaps accompanied by the Sound Designers.

The Sound Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, until 2006 would use a "bake-off" of the best films from the previous year to decide which films should be referred to the full academy as nominations for award. In a rule change on June 30, 2006, the bake-off for the sound branch was eliminated and the usual process of a "preferential ballot" submission was instituted.^[1]

During certain years, the highest award given for this category may be a "Special Achievement Award," and not an Oscar. Academy rules require that a minimum of number of films must be nominated in a category for an Academy Award to be granted, and so when the number of qualifying nominees isn't sufficient, a Special Achievement Award is granted instead.

This is a list of films that have won or been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Effects (1963–1967, 1975), Sound Effects Editing (1977, 1981–1999), or Sound Editing (1979, 2000–present). See Academy Award for Sound for a corresponding list of winners for Best Sound.

Contents
1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

[edit] 1960s

1963 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World -- Walter Elliott
- A Gathering of Eagles -- Robert Bratton
1964 Goldfinger -- Norman Wanstall
- The Lively Set -- Robert Bratton
1965 The Great Race -- Treg Brown
- Von Ryan's Express -- Walter Rossi
1966 Grand Prix -- Gordon Daniel
- Fantastic Voyage -- Walter Rossi
1967 The Dirty Dozen -- John Poyner
- In the Heat of the Night -- James Richard
1968 none given
1969 none given

[edit] 1970s

1970 none given
1971 none given
1972 none given
1973 none given
1974 none given
1975 The Hindenburg – Peter Berkos (Special Achievement Award)
1976 none given
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Frank Warner (Special Achievement Award)

Star Wars – Ben Burtt (Special Achievement Award "for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices")^[2]

1978 none given
1979 The Black Stallion – Alan Splet (Special Achievement Award)

[edit] 1980s

1980 none given
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark -- Ben Burtt, Richard Anderson (Special Achievement Award)
1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial -- Charles Campbell, Ben Burtt
- Das Boot -- Mike Le-Mare
- Poltergeist -- Stephen Hunter Flick, Richard Anderson
1983 Return of the Jedi -- Ben Burtt
- The Right Stuff -- Jay Boekelheide
1984 The River -- Kay Rose (Special Achievement Award)
1985 Back to the Future -- Charles Campbell, Robert Rutledge
- Ladyhawke -- Bob Henderson, Alan Robert Murray
- Rambo: First Blood Part II -- Frederick Brown
1986 Aliens -- Don Sharpe
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home -- Mark Mangini
- Top Gun -- Cecelia Hall, George Watters
1987 RoboCop -- Stephen Hunter Flick, John Pospisil (Special Achievement Award)
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- Charles Campbell, Louis Edemann
- Die Hard -- Stephen Hunter Flick, Richard Shorr
- Willow -- Ben Burtt, Richard Hymns
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade -- Ben Burtt, Richard Hymns
- Black Rain -- Milton Burrow, William Manger
- Lethal Weapon 2 -- Robert Henderson, Alan Robert Murray

[edit] 1990s

1990 The Hunt for Red October -- Cecelia Hall, George Watters
- Flatliners -- Charles Campbell, Richard Franklin
- Total Recall -- Stephen Hunter Flick
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- Gary Rydstrom, Gloria Borders
- Backdraft -- Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country -- George Watters, F. Hudson Miller
1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Tom McCarthy, David Stone
- Aladdin -- Mark Mangini
- Under Siege -- John Leveque, Bruce Stambler
1993 Jurassic Park -- Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns
- Cliffhanger -- Wylie Stateman<sic>, Gregg Baxter
- The Fugitive -- John Leveque, Bruce Stambler
1994 Speed -- Stephen Hunter Flick
- Clear and Present Danger -- Bruce Stambler, John Leveque
- Forrest Gump -- Gloria Borders, Randy Thom
1995 Braveheart -- Lon Bender, Per Hallberg
- Batman Forever -- John Leveque, Bruce Stambler
- Crimson Tide -- George Watters
1996 The Ghost and the Darkness -- Bruce Stambler
- Daylight -- Richard Anderson, David Whittaker
- Eraser-- Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
1997 Titanic -- Tom Bellfort, Christopher Boyes
- Face/Off -- Mark Stoeckinger, Per Hallberg
- The Fifth Element -- Mark Mangini
1998 Saving Private Ryan -- Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns
- Armageddon -- George Watters
- The Mask of Zorro -- David McMoyler
1999 The Matrix -- Dane Davis
- Fight Club -- Ren Klyce, Richard Hymns
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace -- Ben Burtt, Tom Bellfort

[edit] 2000s

2000: U-571 – Jon Johnson
- Space Cowboys – Bub Asman and Alan Robert Murray

2001: Pearl Harbor – George Watters, Christopher Boyes
- Monsters, Inc. – Gary Rydstrom, Michael Silvers

2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Michael Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
- Minority Report – Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
- Road to Perdition – Scott Hecker

2003: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – Richard King
- Finding Nemo – Gary Rydstrom and Michael Silvers
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl – Christopher Boyes and George Watters

2004: The Incredibles – Michael Silvers and Randy Thom
- The Polar Express – Dennis Leonard and Randy Thom
- Spider-Man 2 – Paul Ottosson

2005: King Kong – Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
- War of the Worlds – Richard King
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Wylie Stateman<sic>

2006: ^[1] Letters from Iwo Jima – Bub Asman and Alan Robert Murray
- Apocalypto – Kami Asgar and Sean Mccormack
- Blood Diamond – Lon Bender
- Flags of Our Fathers – Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest – Christopher Boyes and George Watters

2007: The Bourne Ultimatum – Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
- No Country for Old Men – Skip Lievsay
- Ratatouille – Michael Silvers and Randy Thom
- There Will Be Blood – Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood
- Transformers – Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn

2008: The Dark Knight – Richard King
- Iron Man – Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
- Slumdog Millionaire – Tom Sayers
- WALL-E – Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
- Wanted – Wylie Stateman<sic>

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b AMPAS (2006-06-30). "79th Oscar Rules, Approved by Academy". Press release. http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2006/06.06.30.html.
^ Oscars.org database

[bakeoff-0] AMPAS (2006-06-30). "79th Oscar Rules, Approved by Academy". Press release. http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2006/06.06.30.html.

[1] Oscars.org database

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