Verna Fields Award

The Verna Fields Award is the Golden Reel Award which is annually presented by Motion Picture Sound Editors to a filmmaking student in order to recognize the excellence of their sound editing work.^[1] Luke Dunn Gielmuda of the Australian Film Television and Radio School won the 1998 award for his work on Preoccupied.^[2] At the 2004 Golden Reel Awards held at Century Plaza Hotel, Manny Holihan won the Verna Fields Award.^[3]

2006

Winner: Crooked Mick

Nominees:

Afterlife
Below the Silence
Danya
The Resurrectionist

2007

Winner: Temerario

Nominees:

Bio Rhythm
Dalton Jones
Flapwing and the Last Work of Ezekiel Crumb
Synchronoff

2008

Winner: Shot Open

Nominees:

For the Love of God
The Hollow Tree
Procrastination
Sea of Tranquility

2009

Winner: Mummy's Boy

Nominees:

Cupid
Elephants
Four
Joyets
Street Angel

2010

Winner: Scarecrow

Nominees:

The End of the Line
The GodMother
The Incredible Story of My Great Grandmother Olive
Yellow Belly End

2011

Winner: Stanley Pickle

Nominees:

The Confession
En Route
Psychosis
Zbigniev's Cupboard

2012

Winner: The Pride of Wade Ellison

Nominees:

Damned
Inferno
The Maiden and the Princess
The Pride of Wade Ellison
The Secret Numbers

2013

Winner: Head Over Heels

Nominees:

Dawn
Elie's Overcoat
Exedia Nation
Fragments
Head Over Heels
In Aeternam
My Face is in Space
Stumble

2014

Winner: Robomax

Nominees:

Anamnesis
First Light
If You're Serious
The Magnificent Lion Boy
Miss Todd
Robomax
Sleeping With The Fishes

2015

Winner: Sea Odyssey

Nominees:

Sin Frontera
The Night Guardian
Hominid
Sea Odyssey
Posthumous

2021

Winner: Build Me Up (Supervising Sound Editor: Wong Hui Grace)

Nominees:

Cocon (Supervising Sound Editor: Freija Hogenboom, Sound Effects Editor: Camiel Povel, Foley Artist: Annika Epker)
Build Me Up (Supervising Sound Editor: Wong Hui Grace)
Do Not Feed the Pigeons (Supervising Sound Editor: Joe De-Vine)
The Many Faces of Ava (Supervising Sound Editor: Dominika Latusek)
Other Half (Supervising Sound Editor: Zoltán Kadnár)
Night of the Living Dread (Supervising Sound Editor: Miles Sullivan)
Pressure (Supervising Sound Editor: Antek Rutczynski)
Échale Ganas, The Villa’s Tacos Story (Supervising Sound Editor: Mingxin Qiguan)

2022

Winner: Brutal (Supervising Sound Editor: Dan Hibbert)

Nominees:

Ascent (Supervising Sound Editor: Guldem Masa)
Brutal (Supervising Sound Editor: Dan Hibbert)
Enemy Alien (Supervising Sound Editor: Jonathan Mendolicchio)
Entertain Me (Supervising Sound Editor: Sam Titshof, Foley Artists: Nancy Konijn, Levi Cuijpers)
Key of See (Supervising Sound Editor: Manuel Simon, Foley Artists: Conor Van Slyke, George Allan)
Spring Roll Dream (Supervising Sound Editor: Carlos Eligio San Juan Juanchi)
This Is Your Captain Speaking (Supervising Sound Editor: Zoé Beekes, Dialogue Editor: Felicia Koolhoven, Sound Effects Editors: Teun Beumer, Jurriaan Kruithof)
Whiteboy (Supervising Sound Editor: Oliver Mapp)

2023

Nominees:

Buyers Beware (Supervising Sound Editor: Matt Lemberger)
Canary (Supervising Sound Editor: Mengchen Sun)
Dive (Supervising Sound Editor: Simon Panayi)
From The Top (Supervising Sound Editor: Etienne Kompis)
Gossip (Supervising Sound Editor: Itzel Gonzalez Estrada)
Heimen (Supervising Sound Editor: Eran Brinkman, Sound Effects Editor: Sam Titshof)
The Tornado Outside (Supervising Sound Editor: Marios Themistokleous)
Tree of Many Faces (Supervising Sound Editor: Siim Skepast)

References

^ "Verna Fields Award and Ethel Crutcher Scholarship". Motion Picture Sound Editors. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
^ "Golden Reel Nomination". Australian Screen Sound Guild. Archived from the original on October 9, 2009. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
^ "APM Presents Manny Holihan With MSPE Student Film Award". Mix. March 10, 2004. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved February 18, 2010.