A Celebration of Craft will honor Skywalker Sound’s Leslie Ann Jones, a seven-time GRAMMY® winner and the first woman Chair of the Recording Academy’s Board of Trustees (1999-2001), who has spent over 40 years in the industry as a recording and mixing engineer and record producer. The event will also salute the year-round work of the Producers; Engineers and Songwriters; Composers Wings and shine a light on the people working behind the scenes to create the year’s best musical works.

Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES) and Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd., to serve as Premier Sponsors for Recording Academy P&E Wing

Skywalker Sound has done it again! Congratuations to the 2024 Golden Reel Award Nominees!

Nine projects are in the running for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing in five Categories.
The 71th MPSE Golden Reel Awards will be held at Wilshire Ebell Theatre on March 3, 2024.

Skywalker Sound Nominees:

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Animation

Star Wars: The Bad Batch: “Faster” 

Disney 

Supervising Sound Editors: David W. Collins, Matthew Wood 

Sound Designer: David W. Collins 

Sound Effects Editors: Justin Doyle, Kevin Bolen MPSE, Kimberly Patrick 

Supervising Foley Editor: Frank Rinella 

Foley Artists: Kimberly Patrick, Margie O’Malley, Andrea Gard

Star Wars: Visions: “The Pit” 

Disney 

Supervising Sound Editors: David W. Collins 

Sound Designer: David W. Collins 

Sound Effects Editors: Kevin Bolen MPSE, Bill Rudolph 

Dialogue Editor: David Collins 

Supervising Foley Editor: Alex Wilmer 

Foley Artists: John Roesch MPSE, Shelley Roden MPSE, Xiuzhu (mimi( Guo

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Long Form Effects / Foley 

Andor: “Ahsoka: Part Four: Fallen Jedi” 

Disney 

Supervising Sound Editors: Bonnie Wild, Matthew Wood

Sound Designer: David Acord 

Sound Effects Editors: Kimberly Patrick, Tim Farrell 

Supervising Foley Editor: Joel Raabe

Foley Artists: Shelly Roden MPSE, Ronni Brown, Heikki Kossi MPSE

Loki: “Glorious Purpose” 

Disney 

Supervising Sound Editor: Bjørn Ole Schroeder

Sound Designer: David Chrastka 

Sound Effects Editors: Andre Zweers, Malcolm Fife, Jamey Scott MPSE 

Supervising Foley Editor: Alyssa Nevarez

Foley Editor: Dawitt Zemene MPSE

Foley Artist: Sandra Fox

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Short Form

The Mandalorian: “The Return” 

Disney 

Supervising Sound Editors: Trey Turner, Matthew Wood

Sound Designer: David W. Collins 

Sound Effects Editors: Luis Galdames MPSE, Kevin Bolen MPSE 

ADR Editors: Brad Semenoff MPSE, Ryan Cota MPSE

Supervising Foley Editor: Frank Rinella

Foley Editors: Joel Raabe, Alyssa Neverez

Foley Artist: Shelly Roden MPSE

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Animation

Elemental

Disney / Pixar

Supervising Sound Editors: Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce 

Sound Designer: Ren Klyce 

Sound Effects Editors: Kimberly Patrick, Jonathon Stevens, Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Bissinger 

Supervising Dialogue Editor: Rich Quinn

Dialogue Editor: Lisa Chino

Supervising Foley Editor: Dee Selby

Foley Editor: Nicholas Docter

Foley Artists: Shelley Roden MPSE, Heikki Kossi MPSE

Music Editor: Shinnosuke Miyazawa

Migration

Illumination

Supervising Sound Editors: Daniel Laurie, Josh Gold

Sound Effects Editors: Richard Gould, Luke Dunn-Gielmuda, Scott Guitteau

Dialogue Editor: Bjørn Ole Schroeder

Supervising Foley Editor: Thom Brennan

Foley Editor: E. Larry Oatfield

Foley Artists: Sean England, Andrea Gard

Music Editor: Bill Bernstein

The Super Mario Bros Movie

Universal Pictures

Supervising Sound Editor: Daniel Laurie

Sound Designers: Randy Thom MPSE, Jamey Scott MPSE

Sound Effects Editors: Leff Lefferts, Qianbaihui Yang MPSE, Scott Guitteau

Dialogue / ADR Supervisor: Jacob Riehle

Supervising Foley Editor: E. Larry Oatfield

Foley Editor: Zach Martin

Foley Artists: Ronni Brown, Jana Vance, Sean England

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Effects / Foley

The Killer

Netflix

Supervising Sound Editor: Jeremy Molod

Sound Designer: Ren Klyce

Sound Effects Editors: Johnathon Stevens, Malcolm Fife

Supervising Foley Editor: Thom Brennan

Foley Editor: Dee Selby

Foley Artists: Shelley Roden MPSE, John Roesch MPSE

A full list of nominees here.

The Academy Award for Best Sound goes to the Top Gun: Maverick Sound Team! Al Nelson, Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor accepted the coveted award on March 12th, 2023 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. A full list of winners here.

Join Joseph Kosinski, Director, and the sound team as they discuss their groundbreaking work on Top Gun: Maverick. Discussing the challenges and creative decisions are Supervising sound editors Al Nelson, Bjørn Schroeder, and James Mather, as well as Re-recording mixers Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor.

Listen to the Dolby Institute Podcast here.

The Oscar nominee, who worked on Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick is featured in this episode of THR’s Behind the Screen.

Join Bonnie Wild, Julian Howarth and Danielle Dupre in an amazing roundtable with the incredible sound team behind OBI-WAN KENOBI. Talking Bay 94