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)