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• The Dark Knight won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing on February 22, 2009, for work done editing and designing the sound in movies released during 2008.

• Fast Facts

  1. Winner: The Dark Knight
  2. Presenter: Will Smith
  3. Nominations announced: January 22, 2009
  4. Host: Hugh Jackman
  5. Voted on by members of the Academy Film and Television Arts and Sciences
  6. 81st annual award ceremonyOfficial Site: 2009 Oscar Nominees
  7. The Academy Awards ceremony is on February 22, 2009Official Site: 2009 Oscar Nominees
  8. The awards program will be broadcast live on ABC starting at 5 p.m.
  9. First awarded in 1963 as Best Sound Effects
  10. From 1968-1974 no awards were given in this category
  11. Also not given in 1976, 1978, 1980

• 2009 Nominated Films

  • The Dark Knight - Winner
  • Iron Man
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • Wall-E
  • Wanted

• Editing vs. Mixing

  A common question asked is "what is the difference between sound editing and sound mixing?"

• Featured Past Winners

  • 1963: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • 1967: The Dirty Dozen
  • 1975: The Hindenburg
  • 1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • 1982: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
  • 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • 1990: The Hunt for Red October
  • 1993: Jurassic Park
  • 1995: Braveheart
  • 1997: Titanic
  • 1999: The Matrix
  • 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • 2005: King Kong
  • 2006: Letters from Iwo Jima
  • 2007: The Bourne Ultimatum
  • 2008: To be determined

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