‘Dune,’ ‘West Side Story’ and ‘Nightmare Alley’ Among Golden Reel Award Winners

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Golden Reel Awards were held this Sunday, honoring the best achievements in sound editing across film, television, video games and student work with “Dune,” “Nightmare Alley” and “West Side Story” among the winners.The ceremony, which was held virtually, was opened by an address from Motion Pictures Sound Editors president Mark Lanza congratulating the members of the organization for their continued work over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.“These past two years, our members led the way in developing remote solutions that kept them working,” Lanza said at the ceremony. “We salute their ingenuity.

MPSE has always stood for creativity and innovation.”The top three film awards were handed to “Dune,” “Nightmare Alley” and “West Side Story,” which won for feature effects/foley, feature dialogue/ADR and feature music respectively.

All three films are best picture contenders at the 94th Academy Awards, and “Dune” and “West Side Story” are nominated for best sound at the ceremony.

Other film award winners included Paramount Plus film “Infinite,” “Raya and the Last Dragon” and the Chinese film “Cliff Walkers.” “We could not be more thrilled to be the recipients of this amazing award,” said Mark Mangini, one of “Dune’s” supervising sound editors, who accepted the feature effects/foley award with a video speech from a familiar, sandy landscape. “We’re still here on Arrakis, making sounds for ‘Dune: Part II’ — shh, don’t tell anyone.”The television categories honored titles such as “Only Murders in the Building,” for its acclaimed silent episode “The Boy in 6B;” “The Underground Railroad,” for its penultimate episode “Indiana Winter;” and “Succession,” for its Season 3 premiere “Secession.” Additional TV winners included.