Monday, April 1, 2013

Best of 2012: Sound Editing and Sound Mixing


Best Sound Editing
  • The Grey - For the discomforting grisliness of the bone-crunching, the unrelenting elemental dangers of the survivors' surroundings, and the gnarling viciousness of their predators.
  • Life of Pi - For oodles of dreamy riches the sound team captured for the film's aquatic soundscape, and all of those ripely textured animal sounds.
  • The Turin Horse - For the bellowing blusters of those sizably apocalyptic winds, and all of the quotidian details of the father and daughter's life.
  • Wuthering Heights - For minimalist achievement in capturing agitated nature that perfectly and thematically serve this cinematic treatment to Bronte's work.
  • Zero Dark Thirty - For confirming how horrible waterboarding sounds and the disquieting affect of the gunshots in the film's titular action sequence.
 Honorable Mentions: (in alphabetical order) - The Amazing Spider-Man (even though I disliked the film a lot and found Sam Raimi's take on the web-shooting sound design much more vibrant); The AvengersBrave; Django UnchainedKiller JoeLooper; Moonrise Kingdom; Skyfall; The Snowtown Murders



Best Sound Mixing
  • Moonrise Kingdom - For shimmering with the same amount of dioramic detail Anderson puts into his sets with a summery, campfire-centric sonic palette.
  • The Snowtown Murders - For tone-setting incorporation of its seedy score and brilliant evocation of space which the film uses to swelteringly oppresive effect. (Which is meant in the best possible since.)
  • Tabu - For nailing its very bold narrative gambit, blending bewitching African soundscape and beautifully composed narration (in lieu of dialogue) that linger over the intimately stark images.
  • The Turin Horse - For taking those aforementioned apocalyptic winds and quotidian details and keeping them in a tight, tonally agonizing grip.
  • Wuthering Heights - For serving the film's elemental fascination with cold, dilated atmosphere, incorporating such bold strokes with rustic melodies of its heavy downpours and barren fields.
Honorable Mentions: (in alphabetical order) - The Avengers; BattleshipThe Deep Blue Sea; Django UnchainedEnd of Watch; Life of Pi; Looper; Miss BalaSkyfallZero Dark Thirty

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