8. Best Sound Mixing - Transformers: Age Of Extinction
While Michael Bay and his Transformers films are the butt of many jokes for cinephiles (and for good reason), the one thing the series has excelled in is sound mixing. In fact, all three Transformers films, even the universally maligned Revenge of the Fallen, have received nominations for Best Sound Mixing, and there is no reason to expect Age of Extinction to be any different. Sound mixing, as opposed to the previously explained sound editing, has nothing to do with the actual creation of the sounds you hear, but rather is the literal mixing of the volumes of all the different sound elements in the film such as effects, dialogue, and score. When a movie with an over amplified bass makes it nearly impossible to distinguish the actual words being spoken by the actors, it is an example of poor sound mixing. When a film's score is appropriately complimentary in volume to the action on the screen and the dialogue being delivered, that would be an example of good sound editing. In some respects, the previous nominations for the Transformers films in this category may be a reward for the degree of difficulty given how many elements the sound mixers juggle within the action heavy series. Whatever the logic behind the nominations though, expect this category to give Michael Bay the ability to pronounce that all of his Transformers films are Oscar-nominated movies.
A film fanatic at a very young age, starting with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies and gradually moving up to more sophisticated fare, at around the age of ten he became inexplicably obsessed with all things Oscar. With the incredibly trivial power of being able to chronologically name every Best Picture winner from memory, his lifelong goal is to see every Oscar nominated film, in every major category, in the history of the Academy Awards.
