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Every Oscars Best Sound winner

5 ceremonies, 2021–2025. 5 different winners.

Best Sound was first awarded in 2021, so it does not run the full 2000–2025 window.

Read that as the year the two sound categories became one award again. The Academy had split sound into separate mixing and editing awards from the 1982 ceremony through the 2020 one.

It took over from Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.

One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by distributor; scroll sideways for the full run.
Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés Navarrete & Phillip Bladh'21
Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill & Ron Bartlett'22
Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon & Mark Taylor'23
Tarn Willers & Johnnie Burn'24
Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett & Doug Hemphill'25
Wins by distributor
  1. Warner Bros.240%
  2. A24120%
  3. Amazon120%
  4. Paramount120%

The full list

YearWinnerDistributor
2025Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett & Doug Hemphill (Dune: Part Two)
beat 4 others
  • Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey & David Giammarco (A Complete Unknown)
  • Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz & Niels Barletta (Emilia Pérez)
  • Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson & John Marquis (Wicked)
  • Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo & Leff Lefferts (The Wild Robot)
Warner Bros.
2024Tarn Willers & Johnnie Burn (The Zone of Interest)
beat 4 others
  • Ian Voigt, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, Tom Ozanich & Dean Zupancic (The Creator)
  • Steven A. Morrow, Richard King, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich & Dean Zupancic (Maestro)
  • Chris Munro, James H. Mather, Chris Burdon & Mark Taylor (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One)
  • Willie D. Burton, Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo & Kevin O'Connell (Oppenheimer)
A24
2023Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon & Mark Taylor (Top Gun: Maverick)
beat 4 others
  • Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel & Stefan Korte (All Quiet on the Western Front)
  • Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers & Michael Hedges (Avatar: The Way of Water)
  • Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray & Andy Nelson (The Batman)
  • David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson & Michael Keller (Elvis)
Paramount Pictures
2022Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill & Ron Bartlett (Dune)
beat 4 others
  • Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather & Niv Adiri (Belfast)
  • Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey & Mark Taylor (No Time to Die)
  • Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie & Tara Webb (The Power of the Dog)
  • Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson & Shawn Murphy (West Side Story)
Warner Bros.
2021Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés Navarrete & Phillip Bladh (Sound of Metal)
beat 4 others
  • Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders & David Wyman (Greyhound)
  • Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance & Drew Kunin (Mank)
  • Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller & John Pritchett (News of the World)
  • Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott & David Parker (Soul)
Amazon Studios

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