The Motion Picture Sound Editors have spliced together the nominees for its 2026 Golden Reel Awards. See the list below. Now ...

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These sound engineers are responsible for re-creating sound effects like ringing doorbells, squeaky stairs and swishing clothing that help bring a Hollywood production to life. What a foley artist ...

Foley artists are sharing their sound-effects secrets on Insta. Blood splash? It’s a watermelon getting slashed. Punches? Someone hit a goat carcass. Listen up If you’ve spent any time on Instagram, ...

Foley artist Ele Matelan in Halloween III: Season of the Witch, part of the 2016 installment of It Came From the Neo-Futurarium Credit: Evan Hanover Ele Matelan didn’t plan on making a career out of ...

Illustration by Juliette Toma for the Times. For a piece about foley artists. On in a series of stories about how to make it in Hollywood. (Illustration by Juliette Toma for the Times) Back when ...

If you’ll permit us to spoil a little bit of movie magic, many of the sound effects you hear in film and TV are actually recreated and edited in later by Foley artists. Now, researchers are attempting ...

What would a scary movie be without the ominous creak of floorboards? Sound effects—called Foley—add crucial value to any film. “The challenge,” says Foley artist John Roesch, “is to create something ...

We’ve got a new installment of one of our favorite segments today “Try My Job”. When you drive into Chicago off the Ohio feeder ramp, you’ll see a very un-assuming brick building right at Ohio and ...