Nothing much to report on the race for Best Sound under we see the Oscars shortlists on December 21 and hear from bodies like the Cinema Audio Society and the Motion Picture Sound Editors in January. Oppenheimer feels like the unassailable frontrunner here and will likely remain there all season long. A more interesting battle will be seeing what four films join it.
BEST SOUND PREDICTIONS:
1. Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
2. Maestro (Netflix)
3. Ferrari (NEON)
4. Killers of the Flower Moon (Paramount Pictures / Apple Original Films)
5. The Zone of Interest (A24)
IN CONTENTION
American Symphony (Netflix)
Barbie (Warner Bros)
The Color Purple (Warner Bros)
The Creator (20th Century Studios)
Elemental (Disney)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Disney)
John Wick Chapter 4 (Lionsgate)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures)
Napoleon (Sony Pictures / Apple Original Films)
Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Paramount Pictures)
Wonka (Warner Bros.)