Academy Award for Best Sound

13   6.5   7.1 

1930: The Big House - Douglas Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio

NOMINEES:
* The Case of Sergeant Grischa
* The Love Parade
* Raffles
* The Song of the Flame

54   6.8   6.6 

1933: A Farewell to Arms - Franklin B. Hansen, Paramount Studio

NOMINEES:
* 42nd Street
* Gold Diggers of 1933
* I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

13   7   6.1 

1934: One Night of Love - John Livadary, Columbia Studio

NOMINEES:
* The Affairs of Cellini
* Cleopatra
* Flirtation Walk
* The Gay Divorcee
* Imitation of Life
* Viva Villa!
* White Parade

12   7.5   6.7 

1935: Naughty Marietta - Douglas Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio

NOMINEES:
* 1,000 Dollars a Minute
* Bride of Frankenstein
* Captain Blood
* The Dark Angel
* I Dream Too Much
* The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
* Love Me Forever
* Thanks a Million

32   7.6   7.2 

1936: San Francisco - Douglas Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio

NOMINEES:
* Banjo on My Knee
* The Charge of the Light Brigade
* Dodsworth
* General Spanky
* Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
* The Texas Rangers
* That Girl from Paris
* Three Smart Girls

13   7.1   7.2 

1937: The Hurricane - Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio

NOMINEES:
* The Girl Said No
* Hitting a New High
* In Old Chicago
* The Life of Emile Zola
* Lost Horizon
* Maytime
* One Hundred Men and a Girl
* Topper
* Wells Fargo

21   6.9   6.5 

1938: The Cowboy and the Lady - Thomas T. Moulton, United Artists Studio

NOMINEES:
* Army Girl
* Four Daughters
* If I Were King
* Merrily We Live
* Suez
* Sweethearts
* That Certain Age
* Vivacious Lady
* You Can't Take It with You

7   0   6.6 

1939: When Tomorrow Comes - Bernard B. Brown, Universal Studio

NOMINEES:
* Balalaika
* Gone with the Wind
* Goodbye, Mr. Chips
* The Great Victor Herbert
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* Man of Conquest
* Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
* Of Mice and Men
* The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
* The Rains Came

25   7.3   6.8 

1940: Strike Up the Band - Douglas Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio

NOMINEES:
* Behind the News
* Captain Caution
* The Grapes of Wrath
* The Howards of Virginia
* Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman
* North West Mounted Police
* Our Town
* The Sea Hawk
* Spring Parade
* Too Many Husbands

48   7.3   7.1 

1941: That Hamilton Woman - Jack Whitney, General Service

NOMINEES:
* Appointment for Love
* Ball of Fire
* The Chocolate Soldier
* Citizen Kane
* The Devil Pays Off
* How Green Was My Valley
* The Men in Her Life
* Sergeant York
* Skylark
* Topper Returns

136   7.5   7.6 

1942: Yankee Doodle Dandy - Nathan Levinson, Warner Brothers Studio

NOMINEES:
* Arabian Nights
* Bambi
* Flying Tigers
* Friendly Enemies
* The Gold Rush
* Mrs. Miniver
* Once Upon a Honeymoon
* The Pride of the Yankees
* Road to Morocco
* This Above All
* You Were Never Lovelier

25   7.5   7.5 

1943: This Land Is Mine - Stephen Dunn, RKO Radio Studio

NOMINEES:
* Hangmen Also Die
* In Old Oklahoma
* Madame Curie
* The North Star
* Phantom of the Opera
* Riding High
* Sahara
* Saludos Amigos
* So this is Washington
* The Song of Bernadette
* This is the Army

24   7.6   6.8 

1944: Wilson - E. H. Hansen, 20th Century-Fox Studio

NOMINEES:
* Brazil
* Casanova Brown
* Cover Girl
* Double Indemnity
* His Butler's Sister
* Hollywood Canteen
* It Happened Tomorrow
* Kismet
* Music in Manhattan
* A Voice in the Wind

56   6.9   7.3 

1945: The Bells of St. Mary's - Stephen Dunn, RKO Radio Studio

NOMINEES:
* Flame of Barbary Coast
* Lady on a Train
* Leave Her to Heaven
* Rhapsody in Blue
* A Song to Remember
* The Southerner
* They Were Expendable
* The Three Caballeros
* Three Is a Family
* The Unseen
* Wonder Man

AFIoscar's rating:

17   7.4   7.2 

1946: The Jolson Story - John Livadary, Columbia Studio

NOMINEES:
* The Best Years of Our Lives
* It's a Wonderful Life

102   7.4   7.5 

1947: The Bishop's Wife - Gordon Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio

NOMINEES:
* Green Dolphin Street
* T-Men

AFIoscar's rating:

73   7.6   7.5 

1948: The Snake Pit - Thomas T. Moulton, 20th Century-Fox Studio

NOMINEES:
* Johnny Belinda
* Moonrise

AFIoscar's rating:

71   7.8   7.7 

1949: Twelve O'Clock High - Thomas T. Moulton, 20th Century-Fox Studio

NOMINEES:
* Once More, My Darling
* Sands of Iwo Jima

773   8.2   8.4 

1950: All About Eve - Thomas T. Moulton, 20th Century-Fox Studio

NOMINEES:
* Cinderella
* Louisa
* Our Very Own
* Trio

14   6   6.4 

1951: The Great Caruso - Douglas Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio

NOMINEES:
* Bright Victory
* I Want You
* A Streetcar Named Desire
* Two Tickets to Broadway

13   5.8   6.9 

1952: The Sound Barrier - London Films Sound Department

NOMINEES:
* The Card
* Hans Christian Andersen
* The Quiet Man
* With a Song in My Heart

366   7.7   7.8 

1953: From Here to Eternity - John P. Livadary, Columbia Studio

NOMINEES:
* Calamity Jane
* Knights of the Round Table
* The Mississippi Gambler
* The War of the Worlds

59   7.2   7.1 

1954: The Glenn Miller Story - Leslie I. Carey, Universal-International Studio

NOMINEES:
* Brigadoon
* The Caine Mutiny
* Rear Window
* Susan Slept Here

91   7.1   7.1 

1955: Oklahoma! - Fred Hynes, Todd-AO Sound Department

NOMINEES:
* Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
* Love Me or Leave Me
* Mister Roberts
* Not as a Stranger, Watson Jones, RCA Sound Department

256   7.3   7.4 

1956: The King and I - Carl Faulkner, 20th Century-Fox Studio

NOMINEES:
* The Brave One
* The Eddy Duchin Story
* Friendly Persuasion
* The Ten Commandments

61   7.2   7.1 

1957: Sayonara - George Groves, Warner Brothers Studio

NOMINEES:
* Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
* Les Girls
* Pal Joey
* Witness for the Prosecution

91   6.8   6.7 

1958: South Pacific - Fred Hynes, Todd-AO Sound Department

NOMINEES:
* I Want to Live!
* A Time to Love and a Time to Die
* Vertigo
* The Young Lions

1006   7.5   8.1 

1959: Ben-Hur - Franklin E. Milton, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio

NOMINEES:
* Journey to the Center of the Earth
* Libel
* The Nun's Story
* Porgy and Bess

112   6.4   6.7 

1960: The Alamo - Fred Hynes, Todd-AO Sound Department and Gordon E. Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio

NOMINEES:
* The Apartment
* Cimarron
* Pepe
* Sunrise at Campobello

912   7.2   7.6 

1961: West Side Story - Gordon E. Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio and Fred Hynes, Todd-AO Sound Department

NOMINEES:
* The Children's Hour
* Flower Drum Song
* The Guns of Navarone
* The Parent Trap

1090   8   8.4 

1962: Lawrence of Arabia - John Cox, Shepperton Studios

NOMINEES:
* Bon Voyage!
* The Music Man
* That Touch of Mink
* What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

158   6.9   7 

1963: How the West Was Won - Franklin E. Milton, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio

NOMINEES:
* Bye Bye Birdie
* Captain Newman, M.D.
* Cleopatra
* It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1066   7.5   7.8 

1964: My Fair Lady - George R. Groves, Warner Brothers Studio

NOMINEES:
* Becket
* Father Goose
* Mary Poppins
* The Unsinkable Molly Brown

1829   7.5   7.9 

1965: The Sound of Music - James P. Corcoran, 20th Century-Fox Studio

NOMINEES:
* The Agony and the Ecstasy
* Doctor Zhivago
* The Great Race
* Shenandoah

51   6.4   6.8 

1966: Grand Prix - Franklin E. Milton, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio

NOMINEES:
* Gambit
* Hawaii
* The Sand Pebbles
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

349   7.7   8 

1967: In the Heat of the Night' - Samuel Goldwyn Studio

NOMINEES:
* Camelot
* The Dirty Dozen
* Doctor Dolittle
* Thoroughly Modern Millie

235   7.4   7.4 

1968: Oliver! - Shepperton Studio

NOMINEES:
* Bullitt
* Finian's Rainbow
* Funny Girl
* Star!

111   7.4   6.9 

1969: Hello, Dolly! - Jack Solomon, Murray Spivack

NOMINEES:
* Anne of the Thousand Days
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* Gaily, Gaily
* Marooned

503   7.5   8 

1970: Patton - Douglas Williams, Don Bassman

NOMINEES:
* Airport
* Ryan's Daughter
* Tora! Tora! Tora!
* Woodstock

286   7.8   7.8 

1971: Fiddler on the Roof - Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard

NOMINEES:
* Diamonds Are Forever
* The French Connection
* Kotch
* Mary, Queen of Scots

524   7.4   7.7 

1972: Cabaret - Robert Knudson, David Hildyard

NOMINEES:
* Butterflies Are Free
* The Candidate
* The Godfather
* The Poseidon Adventure

3157   7.4   8 

1973: The Exorcist - Robert Knudson, Chris Newman

NOMINEES:
* The Day of the Dolphin
* The Paper Chase
* Paper Moon
* The Sting

AFIoscar's rating:

74   5.6   5.7 

1974: Earthquake - Ronald Pierce, Melvin Metcalfe Sr.

NOMINEES:
* Chinatown
* The Conversation
* The Towering Inferno
* Young Frankenstein

3656   7.2   8.2 

1975: Jaws - Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery, John Carter

NOMINEES:
* Bite the Bullet
* Funny Lady
* The Hindenburg
* The Wind and the Lion

AFIoscar's rating:

748   7.8   8 

1976: All the President's Men - Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Jim Webb

NOMINEES:
* King Kong (Harry W. Tetrick's nomination was posthumous)
* Rocky (Harry W. Tetrick's nomination was posthumous)
* Silver Streak
* A Star Is Born

4911   8   8.8 

1977: Star Wars - Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball

NOMINEES:
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind
* The Deep
* Sorcerer
* The Turning Point

1519   8   8.2 

1978: The Deer Hunter - Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight

NOMINEES:
* The Buddy Holly Story
* Days of Heaven
* Hooper
* Superman

2989   8.1   8.6 

1979: Apocalypse Now - Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nat Boxer

NOMINEES:
* 1941
* The Electric Horseman
* Meteor
* The Rose

4588   8.1   8.8 

1980: Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton

NOMINEES:
* Altered States
* Coal Miner's Daughter
* Fame
* Raging Bull

AFIoscar's rating:

4262   8   8.7 

1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark - Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Roy Charman

NOMINEES:
* On Golden Pond
* Outland
* Pennies from Heaven
* Reds