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Academy Award for Sound Editing
The Academy Award of Merit for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound editing or sound design. The award is usually received by the Supervising Sound Editors of the film, perhaps accompanied by the Sound Designers. The Sound Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, like many of the other branches, selects its nominees at an informal gathering called the "Bake-Off" on the last Tuesday in the January following the qualifying year. At the Sound Bake-Off, highlight reels of films submitted for nomination are screened in a controlled theater environment. The screening is generally open to the public, but only sound branch members may vote, and the only occasion the sound branch members have for voting is at the Bake-Off. The rules for balloting have been changed often, but voting involves giving each film a subjective numerical score, based on the quality of the highlight reel. The scores for each are averaged, and if a minimum of three films score above a threshold (often 7 out of 10), those films are passed on to the entire Academy for voting as the Nominees. The nominees for Academy Award for Sound are selected at the same gathering. In some years, not enough films score above the threshold for official nomination; in that case, no films are nominated for Best Sound Editing, and a "Special Achievement" Oscar is granted to the highest-scoring film; when this has happened, it is indicated below. This is a list of films that have won or been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Effects (1963-1967, 1975), Sound Effects Editing (1977, 1981-1999), or Sound Editing (1979, 2000-present). See Academy Award for Sound for a corresponding list of winners for Best Sound.List of Winners
| Year | Winner |
| 1963 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World -- Walter G. Elliott |
| 1964 | Goldfinger -- Norman Wanstall |
| 1965 | The Great Race -- Tregoweth Brown |
| 1966 | Grand Prix -- Gordon Daniel |
| 1967 | The Dirty Dozen -- John Poyner |
| 1968 | none given |
| 1969 | none given |
| 1970 | none given |
| 1971 | none given |
| 1972 | none given |
| 1973 | none given |
| 1974 | none given |
| 1975 | The Hindenburg -- Peter Berkos (Special Achievement Award) |
| 1976 | none given |
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind -- Frank E. Warner (Special Achievement Award) |
| 1978 | none given |
| 1979 | The Black Stallion -- Alan Splet (Special Achievement Award) |
| 1980 | none given |
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark -- Ben Burtt, Richard L. Anderson (Special Achievement Award) |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial -- Charles L. Campbell, Ben Burtt |
| 1983 | The Right Stuff -- Jay Boekelheide |
| 1984 | The River -- Kay Rose (Special Achievement Award) |
| 1985 | Back to the Future -- Charles L. Campbell, Robert Rutledge |
| 1986 | Aliens -- Don Sharpe |
| 1987 | RoboCop -- Stephen Flick, John Pospisil (Special Achievement Award) |
| 1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- Charles L. Campbell, Louis L. Edemann |
| 1989 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade -- Ben Burtt, Richard Hymns |
| 1990 | The Hunt for Red October -- Cecelia Hall, George Watters II |
| 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- Gary Rydstrom, Gloria S. Borders |
| 1992 | Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Tom C. McCarthy, David E. Stone |
| 1993 | Jurassic Park -- Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns |
| 1994 | Speed -- Stephen Hunter Flick |
| 1995 | Braveheart -- Lon Bender, Per Hallberg |
| 1996 | The Ghost and the Darkness -- Bruce Stambler |
| 1997 | Titanic -- Tom Bellfort, Christopher Boyes |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan -- Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns |
| 1999 | The Matrix -- Dane A. Davis |
| 2000 | U-571 -- Jon Johnson |
| 2001 | Pearl Harbor -- George Watters II, Christopher Boyes |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers -- Ethan Van der Ryn, Michael Hopkins |
| 2003 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World -- Richard King |
| 2004 | The Incredibles -- Michael Silvers and Randy Thom |
| 2005 | King Kong --Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn |
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima — Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman |
