Why Movie Musicals Often Wind Up With Oscar Wins

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Even before an iconic distant whistle opened the first screenings of Steven Spielberg’s WestSideStory, it was clear that musicals would factor into this year’s Oscar race

is the most recent musical to win best picture — it also earned trophies for supporting actress Catherine Zeta-Jones as well as for art direction, costume design, editing and sound. Talk of contemporary musicals also includes Baz Luhrmann’s. A resurgence the past few years is undeniable, and more of this genre is on the way.

“The mixing of musicals is very complex and requires a special skill set. It’s easily understandable why quite a few musicals in the past, especially live-action musicals, have gotten sound awards from the Academy,” notes sound editor/designer and re-recording mixer Randy Thom, an Oscar winner for“You have to do all kinds of internal surgery in a musical piece to make it work,” he adds, citing as an example, which won Oscars for sound editing and mixing.

An additional step in the sound category procedures — a shortlist and a “bake-off” — also returns this year. In mid-December, the sound branch will vote on and establish a shortlist of contenders, which will be presented to the branch during a bake-off in January for nomination voting.

 

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