Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) has announced the nominees for the 73rd Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards, honoring outstanding achievement in sound editing, sound design, music editing, and foley artistry across film, television, and gaming.
The awards ceremony will take place Sunday, March 8, 2026, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. As previously announced, Kathleen Kennedy will receive the MPSE Filmmaker Award, while supervising sound editor Mark Mangini will be honored with the Career Achievement Award.
Broadcast Animation
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A Breath Before Dying (Netflix)
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Love, Death + Robots: “400 Boys” (Netflix)
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Marvel Zombies – Episode 1 (Disney+)
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Rick and Morty: “Summer of All Fears” (Cartoon Network)
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Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld: “Friends” (Disney+)
Broadcast Long Form – Dialogue / ADR
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Adolescence – Episode 2 (Netflix)
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The Pitt: “7:00PM” (HBO Max)
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Severance: “Cold Harbor” (Apple TV+)
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Stranger Things: “Sorcerer” (Netflix)
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Task: “Vagrants” (HBO Max)
Broadcast Long Form – Effects / Foley
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Andor: “Who Are You?” (Disney+)
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Alien Earth: “Neverland” (FX)
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The Last of Us: “Through the Valley” (HBO Max)
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Pluribus: “Pirate Lady” (Apple TV+)
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Stranger Things: “Sorcerer” (Netflix)
Broadcast Short Form
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The Bear: “Scallop” (FX)
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Murderbot: “All Systems Red” (Apple TV+)
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Only Murders in the Building: “LESTR” (Hulu)
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Side Quest: “Fugue” (Apple TV+)
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The Studio: “The Golden Globes” (Apple TV+)
Feature Animation
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Bad Guys 2 (DreamWorks Animation)
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Elio (Disney Pixar)
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KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
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Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Feature Documentary
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Becoming Led Zeppelin (Sony Pictures)
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Deaf President Now! (Apple Original Films)
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I Was Born This Way (Jungefilm)
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It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley (HBO Max)
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Viktor (Netflix)
Feature International
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Belén (Amazon Prime)
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Dong Ji Rescue (Seventh Art Pictures)
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Sirât (NEON)
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Sound of Falling (MUBI)
Feature – Dialogue / ADR
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Bugonia (Focus Features)
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F1 (Apple Original Films)
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Frankenstein (Netflix)
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One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
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Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Feature – Effects / Foley
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Anemone (Focus Features)
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F1 (Apple Original Films)
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Frankenstein (Netflix)
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One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
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Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Non-Theatrical Animation
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: “The Last Straw” (Disney+)
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Invincible: “I Thought You’d Never Shut Up” (Amazon Prime)
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Predator: “Killer of Killers” (Disney+)
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Transformers: EarthSpark: “Legacy of Hope” (Paramount+)
Non-Theatrical Documentary
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100 Foot Wave (HBO Max)
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The Beatles Anthology – Episode 9 (Disney+)
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Billy Joel: And So It Goes – Part One (HBO Max)
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John Candy: I Like Me (Amazon Prime)
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Love + War (National Geographic)
Non-Theatrical Feature
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Beast of War (Bronte Pictures)
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The Gorge (Apple TV+)
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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Hulu)
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Star Trek: Section 31 (Paramount+)
Music Editing – Broadcast Long Form
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Andor: “What a Festive Evening”
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Étoile: “The Hiccup”
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The Last of Us: “Through the Valley”
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Severance: “Cold Harbor”
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Stranger Things: “Sorcerer”
Music Editing – Broadcast Short Form
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The Bear: “Soubise”
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Love, Death + Robots: “400 Boys”
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Only Murders in the Building
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The Studio: “The War”
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Wolf King: “The Rise of the Wolf”
Music Editing – Documentary
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The Beatles Anthology – Episode 9
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Becoming Led Zeppelin
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Billy Joel: And So It Goes – Part One
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It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
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Stans
Music Editing – Feature Motion Picture
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KPop Demon Hunters
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
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One Battle After Another
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Sinners
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Wicked: For Good
Game Dialogue / ADR
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Battlefield 6 (Electronic Arts)
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
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Ghost of Yōtei (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
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Mafia: The Old Country (Hangar 13)
Game Music
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Borderlands 4
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
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Ghost of Yōtei
Game Effects / Foley
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Battlefield 6
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
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Dispatch
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Ghost of Yōtei
Student Film – Verna Fields Award
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Carb Pot — Beijing Film Academy
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Damned — Savannah College of Art and Design
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Dancing Spiders Play Jazz in Nooks — University of Michigan
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A Darker Place: Cases from the DCA — Chapman University
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El Corazón — National Film & Television School
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Moksha — Netherlands Film Academy
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Oneiros — National Film & Television School
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They Made You Into a Weapon and Told You to Find Peace — National Film & Television School
