Curated playlist
Films that won the Best Sound Mixing Academy Award
- Star Wars (film)Star Wars opened on the 25th of May 1977, in just 32 theaters across the United States. The cast and crew believed it would be a failure. The film went $3 million over budget. George Lucas was so absorbed in work on opening day that he…
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King crossed the one-billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office in February 2004, only the second film in history to reach that threshold. At the 76th Academy Awards, it swept every single one…
- Jaws (film)Jaws, the 1975 thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, begins with a simple and terrifying image: a young woman swimming alone at night, and then something pulling her under. In the morning, only part of her remains washes ashore. That…
- Ben-Hur (1959 film)Ben-Hur, the 1959 epic directed by William Wyler, arrived at a moment when Hollywood was fighting for its life. Television had eaten into ticket sales, and the consent decree of 1948 had forced studios to sell off their theater chains. MGM…
- Apocalypse NowApocalypse Now arrived in theaters on the 15th of August 1979, and it carried on its back over a million feet of film, a near-fatal heart attack, a typhoon that destroyed the sets, and the private financial ruin of one of America's most…
- InceptionInception begins with a question that Christopher Nolan first put to paper around 2001: what if someone could steal your secrets while you slept? The film that emerged from that question took nearly a decade to reach the screen, cost $160…
- The Empire Strikes BackThe Empire Strikes Back opens with a single haunting image: probe droids scattered across the galaxy, hunting. It was the 21st of May 1980, and audiences packing into just 126 theaters across North America had little idea that the film…
- Apollo 13 (film)Apollo 13, the 1995 film directed by Ron Howard, opens on the night of the 20th of July, 1969, with astronaut Jim Lovell watching Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the Moon. Lovell had already orbited the Moon on Apollo 8. He tells…
- Titanic (1997 film)Titanic, the 1997 film written and directed by James Cameron, began not on a Hollywood lot but at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. On the 1st of September 1995, Cameron and his crew descended to the actual wreck of the RMS Titanic,…
- Glory (1989 film)Glory, the 1989 war drama directed by Edward Zwick, was still filming in Savannah, Georgia, on the 16th of February 1989. That day, a location crew found the body of a middle-aged man who had been dead for about a day. He had a Middle…