AFT Awards: Best Sound

This is the thirteenth category of the 9th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
Mad Max: Fury Road, Sicario

The winner:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens blasted back into a galaxy far, far away with a terrific return to what was always one of the best things about its franchise: its spectacular sound.

Other nominees:
The Martian
‘71
The Revenant
The Hateful Eight