ABSTRACT
The top sound craftspeople in the motion-picture industry gather, members of the Sound Branch of the Academy as well as several hundred associate observers and guests, to review those films competing for the honor of being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Effect Editing, which was changed to Best Sound Editing in 2000. The soundtrack could not be enhanced, remixed, or reprinted: it must be identical to what was exhibited in the theatres. The task of choosing the clips that comprised the allotted 10 minutes in the "bake-off" was left to the supervising sound editor, as it was he or she who honchoed the preparation of the soundtrack for the re-recording mixing stage in the first place. Beethoven, the master of mood and drama, composed a passage with notations of adagio or largo with a pianissimo delicacy, followed by a sudden explosion of power and glory at double fortissimo with a presto urgency.
