MPSE Golden Reel 2025: Sound Editors Honor TV, Animation and Documentary Winners
The MPSE Golden Reel Awards for 2025 were announced across multiple categories recognizing outstanding sound editing in broadcast animation, broadcast long form (dialogue/ADR and effects/foley), broadcast short form, feature animation, feature documentary and international works. Highlights include A Breath Before Dying and Love, Death + Robots: “400 Boys” (Netflix) in Broadcast Animation; Adolescence: Episode 2 (Netflix) and Stranger Things: Chapter Four: “Sorcerer” (Netflix) in Broadcast Long Form; Andor: “Who Are You?” (Disney+) and The Last of Us: “Through the Valley” (HBOMax) in Broadcast Long Form Effects/Foley; The Bad Guys 2, Elio, KPop Demon Hunters, and Zootopia 2 in Feature Animation; Becoming Led Zeppelin and Deaf President Now! in Feature Documentary; Belén (Amazon Prime) and Dongji Rescue (Seventh Art Pictures) in Feature International. The winners span streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, HBOMax and more, underscoring the prominence of streaming in high-end sound editing.
