‘Dune: Part Two,’ ‘Wicked,’ and ‘Saturday Night’ Win at the 2025 MPSE Golden Reel Awards

“Dune: Part Two” (feature effects/foley), “Wicked” (feature music editing), and “Saturday Night” (feature dialogue/ADR) were the big winners at the 72nd annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards, February 23 at The Ebell of Los Angeles. 

The feature international award went to “Emilia Pérez,” the feature animation award belonged to “The Wild Robot” (which has been sweeping the guild and honorary awards), and “The Blue Angels” took the feature documentary prize.

For TV, the Motion Picture Sound Editors honored “Shōgun” (long form dialogue/ADR), “Ripley” (long form effects/foley), “The Penguin” (long form music editing), “Earthsounds” (short form sound editing), and “Only Murders in the Building” (short form music editing).

As previously announced, the MPSE honored Kevin Costner (“Horizon”) with the Filmmaker Award and supervising sound editor Greg Hedgepath (“Twister”) with the Career Achievement Award.

As we head into the Oscar homestretch, “Dune: Part Two” and “Wicked” find themselves in a three-way sound race with “A Complete Unknown,” which took the live action sound mixing award this weekend at the 61st CAS Awards.

The “Dune” team, led by supervising sound editor Richard King (going for a record fifth Oscar), had more battles on Arrakis, as well as the noise of Harkonnen crowds during the infrared gladiator fights on Giedi Prime. Crucially, there were many sand recordings in the field and on the foley stage, the most interesting of which were low-end groans. Plus, the sandworms were much more prominent and required more movement sounds in the “Dune” sequel.

The “Wicked” team, led by supervising sound editors John Marquis and Nancy Nugent, recorded all of the solo musical performances live on-set (allowing dialogue delivery to develop naturally into song). But for the spectacular “Defying Gravity” climax, in which Elphaba flies away on her broomstick, Best Actress nominee Cynthia Erivo sang while flying on wires with silent wind focused on her cape.

“A Complete Unknown’s” sound team, led by supervising sound editor Donald Sylvester, pushed the early ’60s authenticity. The many musical performances (in clubs, at the Newport Folk Festival, and in recording studios) were done primarily live on set at the insistence of Best Actor nominee Timothée Chalamet, who spent five years preparing for the part. The 22-minute Newport segment was shot from beginning to end with 20 mics.

The full list of winners is below:

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Dialogue / ADR

Saturday Night
Columbia Pictures

Supervising Sound Editors

David Butler

Will Files MPSE

Lee Gilmore MPSE

Dialogue Editors

Helen Luttrell

Emma Present

Sound Editor

Matt Cloud

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Effects / Foley

Dune: Part Two

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures

Supervising Sound Editor

Richard King

Sound Designers

Dave Whitehead MPSE

Michael Babcock

Lee Gilmore MPSE

Randy Torres

Sound Effects Editors

Brent Burge

Hayden Collow

Melanie Graham

Michael Mitchell

Jeff Sawyer

Matt Stutter MPSE

Chris Terhune

Supervising Foley Editor

Chris Flick

Foley Editor

Willard Overstreet

Foley Artists

John Cucci

Dan O’Connell

Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Feature Motion Picture

Wicked

Universal Pictures

Supervising Music Editors

Jack Dolman

Catherine Wilson

Supervising Vocal Editor

Robin Baynton

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature International

Emilia Pérez

Netflix

Supervising Sound Editor

Aymeric Devoldère

Sound Designer

Cyril Holtz

Supervising Dialogue Editor

Hortense Bailly

Supervising ADR Editor

Carolina Santana

Foley Editor

Antoine Swertvaegher

Foley Artist

Gregory Vincent

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Animation

The Wild Robot

Universal Pictures

Supervising Sound Editors

Brian Chumney

Leff Lefferts

Sound Designer

Randy Thom MPSE

Sound Effects Editors

David Farmer MPSE

David Hughes

Jamey Scott MPSE

Dialogue Editor

Rich Quinn

Foley Editors

Malcolm Fife

Dee Selby

Foley Artists

Ronni Brown

Jana Vance

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Documentary

The Blue Angels

Amazon Prime

Supervising Sound Editor

Robert Stambler MPSE

Sound Effects Editor

Ryan “Sully” Sullivan

Dialogue Editor

Emma Present

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Long Form Dialogue / ADR

Shōgun: “Ladies of the Willow World”

FX

Supervising Sound Editor

Brian J. Armstrong MPSE

Sound Editor

Damon Cohoon

Dialogue Editor

John Creed MPSE

ADR Editor

Ayako Yamauchi MPSE

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Long Form Effects / Foley

Ripley: “III Sommerso”

Netflix

Supervising Sound Editor

Michael Feuser

Lawrence Zipf

Sound Designers

Bill R. Dean MPSE

Angelo Palazzo MPSE

Lawrence Zipf

Foley Editor

Igor Nikolic

Sound Effects Editors

David Forshee MPSE

Wyatt Sprague

Supervising Foley Editor

Matt Haasch

Foley Artists

Sandra Fox

Steve Hammond

Goro Koyama

Andy Malcolm

Jay Peck

Outstanding Achievement in Music Editing – Broadcast Long Form

The Penguin: “Cent’Anni”

HBO Max

Supervising Music Editor

Ben Holiday

Music Editors

Chad Birmingham

Luke Dennis

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Broadcast Short Form