‘Nightmare Alley,’ ‘Dune’ Reep Noms At MPSE Golden Reel Awards

variety.com:

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThis year, all five Oscar nominees in the sound category have also scored Motion Picture Sound Editors nominations at the 69th annual Golden Reel Awards.

For the second year in a row, the Oscar category combines sound editing and sound mixing.The MPSE Golden Reel Awards, to be held as a virtual global ceremony March 13, recognizes the craft of sound editing, dividing those accolades into three disciplines for the awards category.“Dune,” “Nightmare Alley,” “No Time to Die” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” all received nominations. “Dune,” a leading contender in the Oscar race for sound, as well as other crafts, leads the way with three nominations for achievement in sound editing, which includes feature effects/Foley, feature dialogue/ADR and feature underscore. “Sound effects are everything from doors opening and closing and car sounds to dinosaurs and aliens,” says Mark Lanza, president of the MPSE. “These can be recordings found in nature or things that have to be manufactured specifically for the item on the screen.Backgrounds would also be found here.

They set the location of a scene as well as the mood and provide clues or hints as to where you are and what is coming. All of these elements can develop tension or make you feel at ease — perhaps falsely.”MPSE-nominated supervising sound editor Oliver Tarney worked to give the opening scene in “No Time to Die,” set in Norway, a creepy quality as Rami Malek’s character enters the house.

From the slow sliding door to Malek’s footsteps on the creaky floorboard, Tarney crafted the scene with sound as a primary emotional component.With dialogue and ADR, editors often need to clean up set dialogue from extraneous noises, choose the correct.