If seeing is believing, then hearing is feeling. And yet sound remains one of the hardest elements of filmmaking to judge during awards season. In 2021, the Academy merged its Sound Editing and Sound Mixing categories into a single Best Sound award, a move likely intended not to blur the crafts but to simplify final voting for members outside the sound branch, many of whom might not understand the technical distinctions. Outside the Academy, craft guilds still recognize those distinctions. The Cinema Audio Society honors excellence in mixing across dialogue, scoring, Foley, ADR and re-recording, while the Motion Picture Sound...