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How Sound Oscar Nominees From ‘Wicked’ to ‘Emilia Perez’ Created Emotion
“We are all working from our gut instincts," says "Dune 2" sound nominee Richard King.
From “Defying Gravity” to “Like a Rolling Stone,” music was a thread through many of this year’s sound Oscar nominees as “ A Complete Unknown,” “ Emilia Perez ” and “ Wicked ” all involved live singing as part of their sonic work. Supervising sound editor and rerecording mixer Cyril Holtz notes that there are many ways to approach a music-driven film and for the nominated genre-defying crime-musical-drama, “the first thing [director] Jacques Audiard said was that ‘Emilia Perez’ was not a musical. For “A Complete Unknown,” production sound mixer Tod A. Maitland says he had microphones “everywhere” while filming the Timothee Chalamet-starring Bob Dylan biopic’s 1965 Newport Folk Festival scene.
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