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‘Dune’ Takes Oscar For Best Achievement In Sound

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Dune won the Oscar for Achievement in Sound, in one of tonight’s category outcomes that had been widely predicted.The film’s Oscar win was preceded by it capturing Outstanding Sound Mixing in a Live Action Motion Picture at the Cinema Audio Society Awards on March 19.

While Denis Villeneuve was not nominated for Best Director, in one of this year’s most glaring Oscar snubs, the craft work that he orchestrated has been tipped to win multiple statuettes.The five sound specialists cited for Dune — Theo Green, Mark Mangini, Mac Ruth, Doug Hemphill, Ron Bartlett and Mac Ruth — have 25 total Oscar nominations among them.

Mangini won a statuette for his sound editing work on Mad Max: Fury Road in 2016 and Hemphill won in 1993 for The Last of the Mohicans.Until last year, there were different Oscars given to sound mixing and sound editing.

A rules change in 2020 combined them into a single category.The sound work on Dune was among many elements of the sci-fi epic to make an impression on Academy members from the moment the film burst onto the festival scene last fall.

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