Academy Award for Best Sound

The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing. The award used to go to the studio sound departments until a rule change in 1969 said it should be awarded to the specific technicians, the first of which were Murray Spivack and Jack Solomon for Hello, Dolly!. It is generally awarded to the production sound mixers, re-recording mixers, and supervising sound editors of the winning film. In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Before the 93rd Academy Awards, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories.

For the second and third years of this category (i.e., the 4th Academy Awards and the 5th Academy Awards) only the names of the film companies were listed. Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department won in both years.

Multiple awards

 * 4 awards


 * Richard King
 * Ben Burtt †


 * 3 awards


 * Charles L. Campbell
 * Per Hallberg
 * Richard Hymns
 * Gary Rydstrom


 * 2 awards


 * Bub Asman
 * Karen Baker Landers
 * Christopher Boyes
 * Mike Hopkins
 * Stephen Hunter Flick †
 * Alan Robert Murray
 * Paul N. J. Ottosson
 * George Watters II
 * Ethan Van der Ryn

Multiple nominations

 * 10 nominations


 * Alan Robert Murray


 * 9 nominations


 * Richard Hymns


 * 8 nominations


 * Gary Rydstrom
 * George Watters II
 * Ben Burtt †


 * 7 nominations


 * Wylie Stateman


 * 6 nominations


 * Bub Asman
 * Christopher Boyes
 * Richard King
 * Michael Silvers
 * Ethan Van der Ryn


 * 5 nominations


 * Stephen Hunter Flick †
 * Mark Mangini
 * Bruce Stambler
 * Matthew Wood


 * 4 nominations


 * Lon Bender
 * Charles L. Campbell
 * Per Hallberg
 * John Leveque
 * Randy Thom


 * 3 nominations


 * Richard L. Anderson †
 * Mike Hopkins
 * Skip Lievsay
 * Paul N. J. Ottosson
 * Mark Stoeckinger
 * Gwendolyn Yates Whittle


 * 2 nominations


 * Erik Aadahl
 * Karen Baker Landers
 * Tom Bellfort
 * Steve Boeddeker
 * Gloria Borders
 * Robert Bratton
 * Brent Burge
 * Glenn Freemantle
 * Eugene Gearty
 * Cecelia Hall
 * Robert G. Henderson
 * Martin Hernández
 * Mildred Iatrou Morgan
 * Ren Klyce
 * Ai-Ling Lee
 * Tom Myers
 * Walter Rossi
 * Philip Stockton
 * Oliver Tarney

† = includes special achievement awards

Shortlisted finalists
Finalists for Best Sound are selected by the Sound Branch. Sound Branch members shall vote in order of their preference for not more than ten pictures to be considered for the Sound award. The ten motion pictures receiving the highest number of votes shall advance to the next round of voting.