MPSE’s 68th annual Golden Reel Awards was held at 9:00 a.m., April 17 Beijing time.
Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards (MPSE Awards), also known as the Golden Reel Awards (GRAs), are a ceremony established by the Motion Picture Sound Effects Editors Guild in 1953. As the sole ceremony honoring works in the field of sound editing in the U.S., the awards also serve as the most authoritative weather vane for the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. Nominations of the Golden Reel Awards represent works of the most talented sound artists in the world, as well as their contributions to films, TVs, animations, computer entertainment and students’ works in the past year.
The list of winners includes not only Soul, a film renowned as the most healing movie of the year, the action thriller Tenet directed by Christopher Nolan and the popular series The Queen’s Gambit but also The Eight Hundred, a true surprise and pride all Chinese viewers!
Directed by prominent director Guan Hu and released in July 2020, The Eight Hundred has successfully ignited the sentiment of patriotism among the audience and broken down the emotional barriers of millions of viewers. The sound editing award for best foreign-language film is actually well-deserved by the film!
Congratulations to The Eight Hundred and its sound team on their winning the paramount honor globally in the field of sound creation for a Chinese film with their precise expression of sound! This is the third Chinese film to win the honor of Golden Reel Award for the Best Foreign Language Film following House of Flying Daggers (2005) and The Flowers of War (2012).
The soundtrack of The Eight Hundred consists of 20 original scores of the film, jointly produced by Rupert Gregson- Wiliams (“Hacksaw Ridge”) and Andrew Kawczynski (“Dunkirk”), as well as @YuFei-Music Producer (Weibo), the golden music producer of this studio. The music was performed by more than two hundred top-notch musicians both from home and abroad, and it took one year to complete recording, mixing and mater tape processing work of the soundtrack in sound-recording studios based in Los Angeles, Sofia, London and Beijing, making the film’s music the first in China across many aspects.
Members of the sound team of The Eight Hundred:
Sound Design and Supervisor: Fu Kang
Sound (Special) Effect Editor: Steve Miller
Dialogue Editor: Tan Ailong
Foley Artist: Long Lan
Music Editor: Yu Fei
Congratulations again to The Eight Hundred and the artists mentioned above. We are looking forward to more good music getting recognized and honored.
For detailed information, go to https://www.mpse.org/68thGRAWinners.
References: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/vjbfCX3HwkhLpxmm4I0Wqg
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0-LIb3Q7rqp8ApoIjDvTtA
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/RIJ1mZ509vaRNhif11_fig
