It is no longer a secret that the final list of nominations for the Oscars in 2011, celebrated next Sunday, February 27, was released there a few weeks. It is our turn to speak on the nominees in both categories rewarding sound works. Here's the official list of nominations in both categories:
Best Sound Editing
Inception (Richard King)
Toy Story 3 (Tom Myers and Michael Silvers)
Tron Legacy (Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey)
Unstoppable (Mark P. Stoeckinger)
Best Sound
Inception (Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick)
The King's Speech (Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley)
Salt (Jeffrey J. Haboush, William Sarokin, Scott Millan and Greg P. Russell)
The Social Network (Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten)
True Grit (Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland)
First comment after reading this list. Five works are competing in each category, where there some years, only three films vied for the title. This year, some very big names are appointed at the same time, evidence of a year rich and intense, after hardly guessable advance ... Thus, among the leading experts, we note the presence of Richard King, Tom Myers , Skip Lievsay, Gary Rizzo Ren Klyce or. Some of these artists officiate as a sound supervisor, and therefore have worked at all stages of the process of "putting into his (s)" of each film. Best Sound Editing Richard King should see triumph, again, with Inception, even if, personally, we do not necessarily share this enthusiasm. However, the incredible technical mastery deployed should be enough to convince the jury.
The next category also present a high added value, with representation in every genre: action / sci-fi Inception with conceptual, historical and satin deployed a King's Speech, pure action with Salt (to mix pleasantly surprising) , western inspired with True Grit, and "social networking" with unprecedented sound development for The Social Network, overseen by the brilliant and mixed Ren Klyce, and his team. Again, difficult to establish a safe prediction, but it's a safe bet that the award should go to the hands of perpetrators of sound Inception, The Social Network or True Grit. All have managed primarily generate new artistic forms while capitalizing on existing elements (sound, editing and mixing) over the past ten years. In this sense, no real revolution, but a brand new reappropriation amount of sonic space, heavily padded by the requirements imposed by each type, this year sharply defined, it is accompanied by specific key if every artist who has been
- Ren Klyce
work on each film. The realism is paramount, offering sound of axes and acoustic data already heard many times, but newly uprated by more specific contributions to the dynamic range, lighting sound, stability immersive soundscapes. The set in the heart of each of these films, a vision unfolds almost organic sound, dry and intense realism, seemingly less dramatic than expected, but each film is more clear, more pure. A way of saying, the acoustic mode, a soundtrack has to be consistent as far as possible the style now known and said, recognizable, each filmmaker. Nobody can say otherwise when you align the names of these directors, who are so well this appellation: Christopher Nolan, David Fincher and the Coen brothers.
Finally, this year, the Oscars are in tune with the styles, and the reward in each category, seem almost logically complete list of prizes to be awarded to the films mentioned above. Another way to sit styles, another way to make clear each artistic effect, another way to recognize, make it even more obvious, that sounds and images, intrinsically linked, are the same in terms of any cinematic creation, members of same artistic unity, spine supporting a creative package: a real mode of existence for a movie.
Verdict on the night of February 27th ....
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