Academy Awards

1980 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing WinnerApocalypse NowWalter MurchA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.Amazon1980 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing Nominees1941Robert KnudsonAmazonMeteorWilliam L. McCaugheyAmazonThe Electric HorsemanArthur PiantadosiAmazonThe RoseTheodore SoderbergAmazon

1981 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing WinnerStar Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes BackBill VarneyAfter the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader and a bounty hunter named Boba Fett all over the galaxy.Amazon1981 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing NomineesAltered StatesArthur PiantadosiAmazonCoal Miner's DaughterRichard PortmanAmazonFameMichael J. KohutAmazonRaging BullDonald O. MitchellAmazon

1982 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing WinnerRaiders of the Lost ArkBill VarneyIn 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.Amazon1982 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing NomineesOn Golden PondRichard PortmanAmazonOutlandJohn WilkinsonAmazonPennies from HeavenMichael J. KohutAmazonRedsDick VorisekAmazon

1983 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing WinnerE.T. the Extra-TerrestrialRobert KnudsonA troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.Amazon1983 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing NomineesDas BootMilan BorAmazonGandhiGerry HumphreysAmazonTootsieArthur PiantadosiAmazonTRONMichael MinklerAmazon

1984 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing WinnerThe Right StuffMark BergerThe story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.Amazon1984 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing NomineesNever Cry WolfAlan SpletAmazonStar Wars: Episode VI - Return of the JediBen BurttAmazonTerms of EndearmentDonald O. MitchellAmazonWarGamesMichael J. KohutAmazon

1985 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing WinnerAmadeusMark BergerThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.Amazon1985 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing Nominees2010: The Year We Made ContactMichael J. KohutAmazonA Passage to IndiaGraham V. HartstoneAmazonDuneBill VarneyAmazonThe RiverNick AlphinAmazon

1986 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing WinnerOut of AfricaChris JenkinsIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.Amazon1986 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing NomineesA Chorus LineDonald O. MitchellAmazonBack to the FutureBill VarneyAmazonLadyhawkeLes FresholtzAmazonSilveradoDonald O. MitchellAmazon

1987 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing WinnerPlatoonJohn WilkinsonA young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.Amazon1987 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing NomineesAliensGraham V. HartstoneAmazonHeartbreak RidgeLes FresholtzAmazonStar Trek IV: The Voyage HomeTerry PorterAmazonTop GunDonald O. MitchellAmazon

1988 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing WinnerThe Last EmperorBill RoweThe story of the final Emperor of China.Amazon1988 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing NomineesEmpire of the SunRobert KnudsonAmazonLethal WeaponLes FresholtzAmazonRoboCopMichael J. KohutAmazonThe Witches of EastwickWayne ArtmanAmazon

1989 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing WinnerBirdLes FresholtzThe troubled life and career of jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker (Forest Whitaker).Amazon1989 Academy Awards - Sound Mixing NomineesDie HardDon J. BassmanAmazonGorillas in the MistAndy NelsonAmazonMississippi BurningRobert J. LittAmazonWho Framed Roger RabbitRobert KnudsonAmazon