Sicario
As I've already mentioned before, one of my biggest inspirations when looking at the sound aspect of the film. The 2 audio Oscar nominations for Best Original Score and Best Sound Editing inspire me even further to make this end of year film into an audio masterpiece. With 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and 81% on Metacritic, others too have praised the film and rightly so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VGSuAxdNXE (SPOILERS)
In this scene the audio is absolutely phenomenal. There are so many layers of audio in this one scene that it is a testament to Alan Robert Murray and how he managed to keep everything so clean and without anything getting muddled in the mix. From the beginning the music is very tense, holding high notes as Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) approaches the family at dinner. Even when the camera is a good bit away from the family eating, we can still hear fork scraping on plates and them eating. The background noise of the surrounding area gives us an idea as to where we are - in a massive house in the middle of nowhere. As Alejandro and Fausto begin to talk, the music fades and now we can just here the kids frighteningly tap their forks off the table in fear. Even though the actors are speaking very softly, we hear them loud and clear because of how it was captured and how it was mixed. The sudden loud gunshots make us jump and add even more tension to a tense situation.
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