Best Sound Editing/Mixing
Best Sound Editing Nominees:
Avatar, Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Inglourious Basterds, Wylie Stateman
Star Trek, Mark P. Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
*The Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson
Up, Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
The distinction between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing is a hazy one; as we understand it, Sound Editing is for the movie with the loudest BOOM, and Sound Mixing is for the one with the coolest sounds. So for Sound Editing, we say The Hurt Locker ...
Best Sound Mixing Nominees:
*Avatar, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
Inglourious Basterds, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
Star Trek, Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
The Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
...and Avatar for a soundscape every bit as imaginative as its visual design.