Mix Magazine Awards Season Shortlist

Kick off Awards Season with Mix‘s Shortlist Sneak Peek, offering an early look at some of the contenders for the 2022 Oscars, MPSE Golden Reels and CAS Awards. Shortlist nomination voting for the Oscars begins December 10, so before checking off your ballot, check out our conversations with the sound teams behind some of the top films in contention!

New this year: From December 10 – 15, members of the individual branches in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences will be voting on a “Shortlist” of nominees in the categories Best Sound (10 nominees), Best Original Score (15 nominees) and Best Original Song (15 nominees). Those Shortlist finalists will be announced on December 21, and on January 27 will be voted on by Academy members when Final Nominations Voting opens.

Writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s behind-the-scenes drama, Being The Ricardos, follows a tumultuous production week of the classic 1950s sitcom, I Love Lucy. In this exclusive panel, Renee Tondelli, supervising sound editor, and Daniel Pemberton, composer, discuss their approaches to evoking the era with sound and music. Being The Ricardos will be released in select theaters on December 10, 2021 and available to stream on Prime Video on December 21, 2021.

Peter Dinklage and Haley Bennett reprise their stage roles in director Joe Wright’s film version of Erica Schmidt’s musical adaptation of ‘Cyrano de Bergerac.’ Find out how supervising sound editors/re-recording mixers Becki Ponting and Craig Berkey went to great lengths to integrate the dialogue and songs — all performed and recorded live on the set — within the action of the movie. The result is a seamless soundtrack that adds a bit of slam poetry–style rapping to the words of Schmidt and the music of Aaron and Bryce Dessner.

Director Ridley Scott’s new film, ‘House of Gucci,’ follows the famed fashion empire across decades. The film’s sound team—Paul Massey, Re-Recording Mixer, James Mather, Supervising Sound Editor, and Niv Adiri, Re-Recording Mixer—discuss how they met numerous challenges during production, including evoking different eras and locations in the epic drama.

In this exclusive panel, Simon Hayes, AMPS, CAS, production sound mixer, Oliver Tarney, supervising sound editor, and Paul Massey, re-recording mixer discuss the intricacies of using sound to underscore No Time To Die, the 25th film in the long-running James Bond franchise.