Best Sound Editing
This category came into existence at the 36th Academy Awards. The first statue was handed to Walter Elliott for It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. There have been several breaks for this category, but it has been included in every Oscar ceremony since Raiders of the Lost Ark won in 1981. From 1963 through 1967, as well as 1975, this category was called Best Sound Effects. In 1977, and from 1981 through 1999, this was called Best Sound Effects Editing. Since 2000, the award has been known as Best Sound Editing. Richard King currently holds the record for the most wins in this category with four. The lead for the most nominations is held by both Richard Hymns and Alan Robert Murray.
The Winners are…
1963 – It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1964 – Goldfinger
1965 – The Great Race
1966 – Grand Prix
1967 – The Dirty Dozen
1968 – No Award Given
1969 – No Award Given
1970 – No Award Given
1971 – No Award Given
1972 – No Award Given
1973 – No Award Given
1974 – No Award Given
1975 – The Hindenburg
1976 – No Award Given
1977 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978 – No Award Given
1979 – The Black Stallion
1980 – No Award Given
1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983 – The Right Stuff
1984 – The River
1985 – Back to the Future
1986 – Aliens
1987 – Robocop
1988 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
1989 – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990 – The Hunt for Red October
1991 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1993 – Jurassic Park
1994 – Speed
1995 – Braveheart
1996 – The Ghost and the Darkness
1997 – Titanic
1998 – Saving Private Ryan
1999 – The Matrix
2000 – U-571
2001 – Pearl Harbor
2002 – The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 – Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004 – The Incredibles
2005 – King Kong
2006 – Letters from Iwo Jima
2007 – The Bourne Ultimatum
2008 – The Dark Knight
2009 – The Hurt Locker
2010 – Inception
2011 – Hugo
2012 – Skyfall / Zero Dark Thirty (Tied)
2013 – Gravity
2014 – American Sniper
2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 – Arrival
2017 – Dunkirk
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