Oscars 2020: Predicting All The Nominees

18. Sound Mixing

Sound categories are often a major point of confusion for Oscar voters, and it seems that many tend to simply vote in both categories for whatever film had the best overall sound.

But mixing is about how all the various branches of the aural experience - dialogue, music, sound effects etc - are incorporated into the overall soundscape, rather than the actual creation of those sounds.

Typically this category rewards blockbusters, action-heavy films, and musicals, all of which are in the mix this year.

This is probably one of the more confidently-set categories, but it's possible that the likes of Ad Astra or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood could sneak in if voters feel like Avengers: Endgame or Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker were basically just more of the same.

Nominees:

1917

Avengers: Endgame

Ford v Ferrari

Rocketman

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker