The Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards 2025 were presented on February 23. The Golden Reels award categories span sound editing, sound design, music editing and Foley artistry across film, television and gaming. 

Many works of genre interest won awards for outstanding achievement in sound editing. These include:

• Broadcast Animation: Secret Level: “Warhammer 40,000: They Shall Know No Fear”
• Feature Animation: The Wild Robot
• Feature Effects/Foley: Dune: Part Two
• Non-Theatrical Documentary: Apollo 13: Survival
• Non-Theatrical Feature: Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
• Broadcast Long Form: The Penguin: “Cent’Anni”
• Game Dialogue/ADR: Call of Duty: Block Ops 6

And these works of genre interest won awards for music editing:

• Documentary: Music by John Williams
• Feature Motion Picture: Wicked
• Game Music: Star Wars Outlaws

A full list of 2025 MPSE Golden Reel Awards winners follows the jump.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – BROADCAST ANIMATION

Secret Level: “Warhammer 40,000: They Shall Know No Fear”
Amazon Prime
Supervising Sound Editors: Brad North MPSE, Matt Yocum MPSE
Sound Designers: Joseph Fraioli, Nolan McNaughton MPSE, Ryan Sullivan
Sound Effects Editors: Chris Battaglia MPSE, Harry Cohen MPSE
Foley Editors: Matt Manselle, Matt Telsey
Foley Artist: Brian Straub      

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – BROADCAST LONG FORM DIALOGUE / ADR

Shōgun: “Ladies of the Willow World”
FX
Supervising Sound Editor: Brian J. Armstrong MPSE
Sound Editor: Damon Cohoon
Dialogue Editor: John Creed MPSE
ADR Editor: Ayako Yamauchi MPSE

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – BROADCAST LONG FORM EFFECTS / FOLEY

Ripley: “III Sommerso”
Netflix
Supervising Sound Editors: Michael Feuser, Lawrence Zipf            
Sound Designers: Bill R. Dean MPSE, Angelo Palazzo MPSE, Lawrence Zipf
Foley Editor: Igor Nikolic                   
Sound Effects Editors: David Forshee MPSE, Wyatt Sprague        
Supervising Foley Editor: Matt Haasch
Foley Artists: Sandra Fox, Steve Hammond, Goro Koyama, Andy Malcolm, Jay Peck      

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – BROADCAST SHORT FORM 

 Earthsounds: “Australian Forests”
Apple TV+
Supervising Sound Editor: Kate Hopkins
Sound Effect Editor: Tom Mercer
Foley Editor: Ellie Bowler
Foley Artist: Rory Joseph  

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – FEATURE ANIMATION

The Wild Robot
Universal Pictures
Supervising Sound Editors: Brian Chumney, Leff Lefferts
Sound Designer: Randy Thom MPSE
Sound Effects Editors: David Farmer MPSE, David Hughes, Jamey Scott MPSE
Dialogue Editor: Rich Quinn  
Foley Editors: Malcolm Fife, Dee Selby        
Foley Artists: Ronni Brown, Jana Vance

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

The Blue Angels
Amazon Prime
Supervising Sound Editor: Robert Stambler MPSE
Sound Effects Editor: Ryan “Sully” Sullivan  
Dialogue Editor: Emma Present        

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – FEATURE INTERNATIONAL

Emilia Pérez
Netflix
Supervising Sound Editor: Aymeric Devoldère
Sound Designer: Cyril Holtz
Supervising Dialogue Editor: Hortense Bailly
Supervising ADR Editor: Carolina Santana
Foley Editor: Antoine Swertvaegher
Foley Artist: Gregory Vincent

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – FEATURE DIALOGUE / ADR

Saturday Night
Columbia Pictures
Supervising Sound Editors: David Butler, Will Files MPSE, Lee Gilmore MPSE
Dialogue Editors: Helen Lutrell, Emma Present

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – FEATURE EFFECTS/FOLEY

Dune: Part Two
Warner Bros. Pictures
Supervising Sound Editor: Richard King
Sound Designers: Dave Whitehead MPSE, Michael Babcock, Lee Gilmore MPSE, Randy Torres
Sound Effects Editors: Brent Burge, Hayden Collow, Melanie Graham, Michael Mitchell, Jeff Sawyer, Matt Stutter MPSE, Chris Terhune
Supervising Foley Editor: Chris Flick
Foley Editor: Willard Overstreet
Foley Artists: John Cucci, Dan O’Connell

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – NON-THEATRICAL ANIMATION

Arcane: “The Dirt Under Your Nails”
Netflix
Supervising Sound Editors: Brad Beaumont MPSE, Eliot Connors MPSE
Sound Effects Editor: Stephen P. Robinson MPSE
Supervising Music Editor: Alexander Temple
Music Editors: Andrew Kierszenbaum, Sebastien Najand, Alex Seaver
Foley Editor: PJ Pascual
Foley Artists: John Cucci, Dan O’Connell

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – NON-THEATRICAL DOCUMENTARY

Apollo 13: Survival
Netflix
Supervising Sound Editor: Paul Darling
Sound Editor: Greg Gettens
Foley Editor: Olly Freemantle
Foley Artist: Rebecca Heathcote

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – NON-THEATRICAL FEATURE

Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
Netflix
Supervising Sound Editors: Scott Hecker MPSE, Chuck Michael MPSE
Sound Effects Designers: Scott Hecker MPSE, Chuck Michael MPSE, Nick Interlandi, Bryan Jerden MPSE, Alexander Pugh MPSE, Andrew Vernon MPSE
Sound Effects Editor: Greg ten Bosch MPSE, Brad Sokol
Supervising Dialogue / ADR Editor: Jessie Anne Spence MPSE
Dialogue/ADR Editors: Michael Hertlein, Arielle McGrail, Byron Wilson
Supervising Foley Editor: Mark Pappas
Supervising Foley Artist: Gary Hecker MPSE
Foley Artists: Michael Broomberg, Mike Horton

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC EDITING – BROADCAST LONG FORM

The Penguin: “Cent’Anni”
HBO Max
Supervising Music Editor: Ben Holiday
Music Editors: Chad Birmingham, Luke Dennis

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC EDITING – BROADCAST SHORT FORM

Only Murders in the Building: “My Best Friend’s Wedding”
Hulu
Music Editor: Michah Liberman

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC EDITING – DOCUMENTARY

Music by John Williams
Disney+         
Supervising Music Editor: Ramiro Belgardt  
Music Editors: Christopher Barnett MPSE, Roy Waldspurger

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC EDITING – FEATURE MOTION PICTURE

Wicked
Universal Pictures
Supervising Music Editors: Jack Dolman and Catherine Wilson
Supervising Vocal Editor: Robin Baynton

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING – GAME DIALOGUE/ADR

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Audio Lead: Jacob Harley, Jeremiah Sypult, Brian Tuey
Audio Directors: Ian Mika
Supervising Sound Editor: Charles Deenen
Supervising Dialogue Editor: Robert Jackson
Senior Audio Artist: Ryan Garigliano
Dialogue Editors: Jessica Arkoff, Socrates Ayala, Kelli Baffoni, Tom Boyd, Roman Fusco, Cesar Marenco MPSE, Kevin Patel, Brandon Roos, Ruge Sun, Dani Turner, Rob Weiss, Maggie Wolf
Audio Artists: Justin Moreh, Darrell Tung

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC EDITING – GAME MUSIC

Star Wars Outlaws
Audio Director: Simon Koudriavtsev
Senior Music Designer: Erik Jacobsson
Music Supervisor: Manu Bachet