Curated playlist
Films that won the Best Sound Mixing Academy Award
- Star Wars (film)George Lucas forgot Star Wars was opening the day it came out. That night, he saw crowds lined up outside a theater.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingThe Return of the King won all eleven Oscars it was nominated for. No fantasy film had won Best Picture before it.
- Jaws (film)The broken shark in Jaws made the film scarier. Spielberg had to suggest it with barrels and a fin.
- Ben-Hur (1959 film)MGM bet its future on Ben-Hur, a 1959 epic whose budget more than doubled to $15.175 million.
- Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola bet his house and car on Apocalypse Now. He also put up his Godfather profits as security.
- InceptionInception's crew built a hotel corridor that rotated a full 360 degrees. It was planned at 40 feet, then grew to 100.
- The Empire Strikes BackOn the set of The Empire Strikes Back, the actor playing Vader was given a fake line.
- Apollo 13 (film)The Apollo 13 film's famous line "Failure is not an option" was never spoken by Gene Kranz during the real mission.
- Dune (2021 film)Dune, the 2021 film directed by Denis Villeneuve, began with a filmmaker who doubted he would ever get to make it. In September 2016 the Canadian director said, "a longstanding dream of mine is to adapt Dune, but it's a long process to get…
- Titanic (1997 film)Rather than cut Titanic, James Cameron gave up his $8 million director's salary.
- Jurassic ParkJurassic Park, the 1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg, came with an unusual house rule. On set, Spielberg banned the words "monster" and "creature" and told the crew to call the dinosaurs "animals" instead. The story takes place on…
- Dune: Part TwoDune: Part Two had its first screening on the 16th of January 2024, in a palliative care home in Saguenay, Quebec, weeks before any red carpet. The audience was one dying man who had said he wanted to see the film. His wish traveled…
- Top Gun: MaverickTop Gun: Maverick contains a shot that nearly took the roof off a building. For a low-pass scene with the actor Ed Harris, a Blue Angels jet skimmed a test range at China Lake at under 50 feet and around 450 knots. On the 20th and last…
- Glory (1989 film)The film Glory shows a soldier being flogged, but no such flogging of Black troops ever happened.
- F1 (film)F1, marketed as F1 the Movie, is a 2025 American sports drama directed by Joseph Kosinski. Brad Pitt plays a Formula One driver who returns after a 30-year absence to rescue his former teammate's underdog team from collapse. Damson Idris,…