Veteran rerecording mixer Andy Nelson describes working with Baz Luhrmann, Matt Reeves and Steven Spielberg in a brand new episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Behind The Display.
This season, Nelson prolonged his Oscar nominations tally to 24, with a pair of noms for his work on Luhrmann’s Elvis and Reeves’ The Batman. In doing so, he additionally prolonged his document for essentially the most noms within the sound class.
Describing Luhrmann as a “artistic twister” and Austin Butler’s efficiency within the title function as “good,” Nelson particulars how they used a lot of Butler’s vocals within the movie, in addition to within the performances within the later half of the film, a fragile mix with archival materials of Presley. Probably the most difficult, he says, was the sound staff’s work to recreate the memorable 1968 Comeback Particular. “The unique audio for that was truly a mono from a VHS from the transmission of the TV present, so you’ll be able to think about how that sounded in comparison with all the things we’d carried out within the film as much as that time in full 9.1 Atmos,” he says, describing how this was achieved. “It was a large dance we did to get that comeback particular to sound the best way it did.”
Nelson additionally talks about how he loves working with The Batman helmer Reeves. “He desires to get [each] scene proper earlier than we’re prepared to maneuver onto the following scene,” Nelson says. “It’s very intense. It’s very collaborative. He’s at all times in nice spirits about it, and now we have a good time with him.” Describing The Batman as a type of “noir detective story,” Nelson says the sound “actually known as for one thing that had that sort of moody high quality to it [which involved elements including] sound of the town and the rain and Michael Giacchino’s rating, which I believe is one in all Michael’s greatest. And I’ve labored with him a couple of instances, and he’s at all times good. However boy did he actually pull it out on this one.”
Through the podcast, the rerecording mixer additionally talks about working along with his decades-long collaborator Steven Spielberg on the director’s extremely private The Fabelmans, and he congratulates manufacturing sound mixer Peter J. Devlin on his Cinema Audio Society Profession Achievement Award.
Subsequent, Nelson is beginning work on Michael Mann’s Ferrari, starring Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari and Penelope Cruz as his spouse, Laura. “I’m actually enthusiastic about it,” he says.
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