Behind the ‘Sound of Metal’

The team behind the film “Sound of Metal” — this year’s Oscar winner for Best Sound — worked across international borders. Sound supervisor Nicolas Becker, who is based in France, worked with sound engineers and editors from Venezuela and Mexico and studies in the Mexico City area. They examined how we listen with our whole bodies, and how we hear our bodies, our breathing, even our organs.

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