Academy Awards: Best Sound
Description
Updated with 2025 winner. Notes: 1931: Paramount, no individual film nominated 1932: Paramount, no individual film nominated 1963-1967: Two Awards (Sound and Sound Effects) 1975: Special Award for Sound Effects 1977: Special Award for Sound Effects Editing 1979: Special Award for Sound Editing 1981: Special Award for Sound Effects Editing 1982-1999: Two Awards (Sound and Sound Effects Editing) 2000-2003: Two Awards (Sound and Sound Editing) 2004-2019: Two Awards (Sound Mixing and Sound Editing)
Number of Movies
123
The Big House
A Farewell to Arms
Das leuchtende Ziel
Naughty Marietta
San Francisco
The Hurricane
The Cowboy and the Lady
Huracán
Strike Up the Band
That Hamilton Woman
Yankee Doodle Dandy
This Land Is Mine
Wilson
The Bells Of St. Mary's
The Jolson Story
The Bishop's Wife
The Snake Pit
Twelve O'Clock High
All About Eve
The Great Caruso
The Sound Barrier
From Here to Eternity
The Glenn Miller Story
Oklahoma!
The King and I
Sayonara
South Pacific
Ben-Hur
The Alamo
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
How the West Was Won
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
My Fair Lady
Goldfinger
The Sound of Music
The Great Race
Grand Prix
In the Heat of the Night
The Dirty Dozen
Oliver!
Hello, Dolly!
Patton
Fiddler on the Roof
Cabaret
The Exorcist
Earthquake
Jaws
The Hindenburg
All the President's Men
Star Wars IV: A New Hope
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
The Black Stallion
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
The Right Stuff
Amadeus
The River
Out of Africa
Back to the Future
Platoon
Aliens
The Last Emperor
RoboCop
Bird
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Glory
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Dances with Wolves
The Hunt for Red October
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Last of the Mohicans
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Jurassic Park
Speed
Apollo 13
Braveheart
The English Patient
The Ghost and the Darkness
Titanic
Saving Private Ryan
The Matrix
Gladiator
U-571
Black Hawk Down
Pearl Harbor
Chicago
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Ray
The Incredibles
King Kong
Dreamgirls
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Bourne Ultimatum
Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight
The Hurt Locker
Inception
Hugo
Les Misérables
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
Gravity
Whiplash
American Sniper
Mad Max: Fury Road
Hacksaw Ridge
Arrival
Dunkirk
Bohemian Rhapsody
1917
Ford v. Ferrari
Sound of Metal
Dune
Top Gun: Maverick
The Zone of Interest
Dune: Part Two
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