AFT Awards: Best Sound

This is the thirteenth category of the 14th 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. I’m drawing only from films that were either released or playing at a film festival in the 2020 calendar year. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Like the Oscars, I’m combining the sound and sound editing races this year. Click to see previous years of these two categories.

Honorable mentions:
Mank, News of the World, The Midnight Sky, Sky Raiders, Run

The winner:
Greyhound calibrated a captivating audial experience that amplified its isolated setting.

Other nominees:
Sound of Metal
Tenet
Ema
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the fifteenth category of the 13th 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:
None

The winner:
1917 kept audiences on the edge of their seats not only through what they saw on screen but also through the often treacherous and devastating sounds coming at them.

Other nominees:
Ford v Ferrari
Avengers: Endgame
The Aeronauts
Joker

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the fourteenth category of the 12th 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):
A Star is Born, Annihilation, Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, Mary Poppins Returns, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Widows

The winner:
First Man was just as much of an aural experience as it was a visual one, calibrated to convey the intense sound of hurtling into space.

Other nominees:
Avengers: Infinity War
Roma
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Breath

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the fourteenth category of the 11th 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):
Baby Driver, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, The Shape of Water, The Space Between Us, War for the Planet of the Apes

The winner:
Dunkirk (Richard King and Alex Gibson) spent a good deal of its time up in the air, out at sea, or under threat of attack, guided marvelously by its sound effects.

Other nominees:
The Fate of the Furious (Paul Aulicino, Peter Brown, and Mark P. Stoeckinger)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce)
Blade Runner 2049 (Mark A. Mangini and Theo Green) 
Land of Mine (Rasmus Winther Jensen)

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the fourteenth category of the 10th 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):
Deadpool, Doctor Strange, Game of Aces, Hacksaw Ridge, La La Land, Star Trek Beyond, The Jungle Book

The winner:
Sully highlighted the intensity of its defining scene, retold countless times throughout the film, by focusing on extraordinarily effective sound editing.

Other nominees:
Deepwater Horizon
Hell or High Water
Arrival
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the fourteenth 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):
Creed, The Hateful Eight, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian

The winner:
The Walk let some of its theatrical elements do the talking, with its circus surroundings and tightrope wires just as vocal as its illustrious protagonist.

Other nominees:
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sicario
‘71

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the fourteenth category of the 8th 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):
Begin Again, Birdman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Unbroken, X-Men: Days of Future Past

The winner:
Interstellar didn’t let the silence in space drown out its awesome audial effects and used its surroundings to immense effect.

Other nominees:
A Most Violent Year
American Sniper
Whiplash
Snowpiercer

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the fourteenth category of the 7th 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):
Captain Phillips

The winner:
Fast and Furious 6 was a well-oiled and finely-tuned sound machine to go with its startling visuals.

Other nominees:
Gravity
Star Trek Into Darkness
All is Lost
Iron Man 3

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the twelfth category of the 6th 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):
The Amazing Spider-Man, Argo, Headhunters, Les Miserables, Zero Dark Thirty

The winner:
The Avengers traveled between cities and galaxies and sounded superb doing it.

Other nominees:
The Dark Knight Rises
Flight
Skyfall
Prometheus

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the fourteenth category of the 5th 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):
The Adjustment Bureau, The Adventures of Tintin, Captain America: The First Avenger, Cars 2, Hanna, Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows, Thor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, X-Men: First Class

The winner:
Fast Five emphasized its accelerations and explosions to make the most of its audio-driven experience.

Other nominees:
Drive
Attack the Block
Super 8
Melancholia

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the fourteenth category of the 4th 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):
Alice in Wonderland, Daybreakers, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Knight and Day, Micmacs, Shutter Island

The winner:
Inception had its characters and story live and breathe with its sound effects, triggering those within the film and watching the film with aural cues.

Other nominees:
Iron Man 2
District 13: Ultimatum
Lebanon
127 Hours

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the fourteenth category of the 3rd 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.

The winner:
Watchmen was enhanced by the subtlest sounds of its superheroes coming to life and its world coming apart.

Other nominees:
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
District 9
Fast & Furious

AFT Awards: Best Sound Editing

This is the fourteenth category of the 2nd 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 alphabetical order.

The winner:
Wanted made me hear bullets fly and ricochet off countless surfaces. It enhances and even makes the experience.

Other nominees:
Body of Lies
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

AFT Awards: Best Sound/Sound Editing

This is the eleventh and twelfth category of the 1st 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 listed in alphabetical order by film title. Winners will be announced in late February.

**I have omitted descriptions for each of the nominees for a few categories because they have become repetitive. For some of my own invented categories, they will return.**

I have done my best to break down the nominees here into Best Sound and Best Sound Editing though this is not my strong point. I am leaving off runner-ups for these categories.

Best Sound
I AM LEGEND
SERAPHIM FALLS
SMOKIN’ ACES
SWEENEY TODD
THERE WILL BE BLOOD


Best Sound Editing
I AM LEGEND
THE KINGDOM
LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD
SERAPHIM FALLS
SMOKIN’ ACES