Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives two award for sound: Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Sound editing encompasses both all of the audio edited from production sound, and all the sound that is added to the picture in post production. So what included in this award are a number of individual disciplines. The dialog editor will edit and clean the production dialog. The automatic dialog replacement (ADR) recorder will record and substitute in any dialog lines that are needed after production has wrapped. The sound designers will create and edit and sound effects and ambiances (or atmospheres) in the movie. The person in charge o all of the sound editing is the supervising sound editor.
Sound Mixing takes place once the sound editing is complete. all of these elements are them blended to make the finale mix. In large studio action films, there may be up 1,000 tracks of audio to use in the mixing decision process. The person who in chare of mixing the film is called the re-recording mixer. what he or she does is take all of the recording from the sound editors/designer and create a new recording— in essence a re-recorder—for the final mix.
There probably could be six or seven Academy Awards for sound in films, but we’ll take the two that we have.
