85th Academy Award Audio and Music Winners Announced

Host Seth McFarlane was fun, but for us the real draw at the 85th Annual Academy Awards was the recognition of some of the most coveted achievements in the world of audio.

The competition in audio and music was intense at the 85th Academy Awards.

Here are the audio professionals, as well as the composers and songwriters, who captured Oscars for their work in the field of film this past year. Congratulations from SonicScoop to winners and nominees alike:

Best Sound Editing

Winner: Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers, “Skyfall” (read the in-depth interview with them at Creative Cow)
Winner: Paul N.J. Ottosson, “Zero Dark Thirty”

Nominees:
Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, “Argo”
Wylie Stateman, “Django Unchained”
Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, “Life of Pi”

Best Sound Mixing

Winner: Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Simon Hayes, “Les Miserables”

Nominees:
John Reitz,Gregg Rudloff, Jose Antonio Garcia, “Argo”
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill, Drew Kunin, “Life of Pi”
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, Ronald Judkins, “Lincoln”
Scott Milan, Greg P. Russell, Stuart Wilson, William Goldenberg, “Skyfall”

Best Original Score

Winner: Mychael Danna, “Life of Pi”

Nominees:
Alexandre Desplat, “Argo”
Dario Marianelli, “Anna Karenina”
John Williams, “Lincoln”

Best Original Song

Winner: “Skyfall” from “Skyfall” Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth

Nominees:
“Before My Time” from “Chasing Ice” Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
“Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from “Ted” Music by Walter Murphy and Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
“Pi’s Lullaby” from “Life of Pie” Music by Mychael Danna and Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
“Suddenly” from “Les Miserables” Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

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