Michelle Couttolenc

Michelle Couttolenc is a Mexican sound engineer.^[1][2][3] She won an Academy Award in the category Best Sound and the BAFTA Award for Best Sound^[4] for the film Sound of Metal.^[5][6] Along with fellow nominees Jaime Baksht and Carlos Cortés Navarrete, she became the first Mexican sound engineer who won an Academy Award and the first Mexican woman sound engineer to ever be nominated.^[7] She is also the recipient of six Ariel Awards for Best Sound.^[8]

Michelle Couttolenc
Couttolenc in 2021
Occupation	Sound engineer

Selected filmography

• Pedro Páramo (2024; re-recording mixer)
• La cocina (2024; re-recording mixer)
• Memory (2023; re-recording mixer)
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023; re-recording mixer)
• El eco (2023; re-recording mixer)
• Cassandro (2023; re-recording mixer)
• Familia (2023; re-recording mixer)
• The Kings of the World (2022; re-recording mixer)
• Rebel (2022; re-recording mixer)
• A Cop Movie (2021; re-recording mixer)
• New Order (2020; re-recording mixer)
• Sound of Metal (2020; Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Sound co-won with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh)
• I'm No Longer Here (2019; re-recording mixer)
• Roma (2018; adr re-recordist)
• Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Ana y Bruno (2017; re-recording mixer)
• ¿Qué culpa tiene el niño? (2016; re-recording mixer)
• The 4th Company (2016; re-recording mixer assistant)
• You're Killing Me Susana (2016; re-recording mixer assistant)
• The Thin Yellow Line (2015; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Gloria (2014; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Güeros (2014; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Instructions Not Included (2013; re-recording mixer assistant)
• The Golden Dream (2013; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Post Tenebras Lux (2012; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Perras (2011; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Abel (2010; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Paradas continuas (2009; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Rudo y cursi (2008; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Presumed Guilty (2008; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Silent Light (2007; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Déficit (2007; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Efectos secundarios (2006; re-recording mixer assistant)
• Pan's Labyrinth (2006; re-recording mixer assistant)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated Work	Result	Ref.
2014	Ariel Awards	Best Sound (Mejor sonido), shared with Jaime Baksht and Pablo Tamez Sierra	Tercera llamada	Nominated	[9]
		Best Sound, shared with Jaime Baksht and Raúl Locatelli	The Golden Dream	Won	[10]
	Fénix Awards	Best Sound, shared with Matías Barberis, Jaime Baksht and Raúl Locatelli		Won	[11]
2015	Ariel Awards	Best Sound, shared with Isabel Muñoz Cota, Pedro González, Axel Muñoz, Kiyoshi Osawa, Gabriel Reyna and Jaime Baksht	Güeros	Won	[12]
2016	Ariel Awards	Best Sound, shared with Matías Barberis and Jaime Baksht	Gloria	Won	[13]
2017	Ariel Awards	Best Sound, shared with Isabel Muñoz Cota, Javier Umpierrez and Jaime Baksht	The 4th Company	Won	[14]
		Best Sound, shared with Fernando Cámara, Stan Mak, Steven Avila, Trip Brock and Jaime Baksht	You're Killing Me Susana	Nominated	[15]
2018	Ariel Awards	Best Sound, shared with Matías Barberis, Bernat Fortiana, Pablo Tamez Sierra and Jaime Baksht	La libertad del diablo	Nominated	[16]
		Best Sound, shared with Emilio Cortés, Martín Hernández, Alejandro Quevedo and Jaime Baksht	Tigers Are Not Afraid	Nominated
	Fénix Awards	Best Sound, shared with Javier Umpierrez, Isabel Muñoz Cota and Jaime Baksht	Museo	Nominated	[17]
2019	Ariel Awards			Nominated	[18]
		Best Sound, shared with Raúl Locatelli, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Jaime Baksht and Javier Umpierrez	Our Time	Nominated
2020	Ariel Awards	Best Sound, shared with Isabel Muñoz Cota, Christian Giraud, Alejandro de Icaza and Jaime Baksht	Belzebuth	Nominated	[19]
		Best Sound (Mejor dirección de sonido), shared with Javier Umpierrez, Olaitan Agueh, Yuri Laguna and Jaime Baksht	I'm No Longer Here	Won	[20]
2021	Platino Awards			Nominated	[21]
	Ariel Awards	Best Sound, shared with Raúl Locatelli, Alejandro de Icaza and Jaime Baksht	New Order	Nominated	[22][23]
		Best Sound, shared with José Miguel Enríquez, Federico González Jordán and Jaime Baksht	Tragic Jungle	Won
	Academy Awards	Best Sound, shared with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh	Sound of Metal	Won	[5]
	BAFTA Awards			Won	[4]
	Gold Derby Awards			Won	[24]
	Cinema Audio Society	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures - Live Action, shared with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Phillip Bladh and Kari Vähäkuopus		Won	[25]
	Satellite Awards	Best Sound (Editing & Mixing), shared with Phillip Bladh, Nicolas Becker, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Jaime Baksht and Maria Carolina Santana Caraballo-Gramcko		Won	[26]
	Latino Entertainment Journalist Association Film Awards	Best Sound, shared with Phillip Bladh, Nicolas Becker, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Jaime Baksht and Maria Carolina Santana Caraballo-Gramcko		Won	[27]
	International Cinephile Society Awards	Best Sound Design, shared with Nicolas Becker and Phillip Bladh		Won	[28]
	International Online Cinema Awards	Best Sound Mixing, shared with Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Jaime Baksht		Won	[29]
	Association of Motion Picture Sound	Excellence in Sound for a Feature Film, shared with Phillip Bladh, Jeremy Eisener, Nicolas Becker and Jaime Baksht		Won	[30]
	Minnesota Film Critics Alliance Awards	Best Sound Work, shared with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh		Won	[31]
	Hollywood Professional Association Awards	Outstanding Sound - Teathrical Feature, shared with Nicolas Becker, Carolina Santana Caraballo-Gramcko, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Jaime Baksht		Nominated	[32]
	Golden Reel Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film, shared with Nicolas Becker and Carolina Santana Caraballo-Gramcko		Nominated	[33]
2022	Ariel Awards	Best Sound, shared with Guido Berenblum, Santiago Arroyo and Jaime Baksht	El hoyo en la cerca	Nominated	[34]
		Best Sound, shared with Isabel Muñoz Cota, Javier Umpierrez and Jaime Baksht	A Cop Movie	Nominated
2023	Macondo Awards	Best Sound (Mejor sonido), shared with Carlos García and Boris Herrera Allende	The Kings of the World	Won	[35]
	Ensor Awards	Best Sound (Beste Geluid), shared with Jaime Baksht, Guilhem Donzel, Jeroen Truijens and Loïc Collignon	Rebel	Nominated	[36]
2024	Mucuripe Trophy Cine Ceará Ibero- American Film Festival	Best Sound (Melhor som) shared with Jaime Baksht, Valeria López Mancheva and Lena Esquenazi	En La Caliente: Tales of a Reggaeton Warrior	Won	[37]
	Ariel Awards	Best Sound, shared with Martin de Torcy, Lena Esquenazi and Jaime Baksht	El eco	Nominated	[38]
	Gopo Awards	Best Sound (Cel mai bun sunet), shared with Hrvoje Radnic, Marius Leftãrache, Mariana Balan and Jaime Baksht	Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World	Nominated	[39]