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Primetime Emmy Award The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the Primetime ...

for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie is an award handed out annually at the

Creative Arts Emmy Award The Creative Arts Emmys are a class of Emmy Awards presented in recognition of technical and other similar achievements in American television programming. They are commonly awarded to behind-the-scenes personnel such as production designers, set ...

. Limited series and television movies shot on videotape competed alongside variety series and specials for Outstanding Tape Sound Mixing before 1986. They also faced off against regular series for Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing before 1983. In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place: __TOC__

Winners and nominations

1970s

Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing Outstanding Achievement in Film or Tape Sound Mixing Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing

1980s

Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or Movie

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Sound mixers with multiple awards

;4 awards * Adam Jenkins * Eddie J. Nelson * George E. Porter ;3 awards * Rick Ash * Sam Black * David E. Fluhr * Robert L. Harman * Grover B. Helsley * Richard D. Rogers * William McCaughey * Bill Teague ;2 awards * Trevor Black * David E. Campbell * Joseph D. Citarella * Anthony Constantini * Gordon L. Day * Mark Dowson * Robert W. Glass Jr. * Thomas J. Huth * Donald F. Johnson * Daniel J. Leahy * Mel Metcalfe *

Terry Porter Terry Porter (born April 8, 1963) is an American former college basketball coach and former player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was most recently the head men's basketball coach at the University of Portland. A native of Wisc ...

John T. Reitz John T. Reitz is an American re-recording mixer. He won an Oscar for Best Sound and was nominated for another four in the same category. He has worked on more than 180 films since 1976. Selected filmography Reitz won an Academy Award for Best ...

* Theodore Soderberg * Mark Taylor * George Tarrant * Ray West *

Russell Williams II Russell Williams II (born October 14, 1952) is an American production sound mixer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound. He has worked on more than 50 films since 1976. He is Distinguished Artist in Residence Emeritus at the American ...

* Howard Wilmarth

Programs with multiple nominations

;5 nominations * ''

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'' ;4 nominations * '' Fargo * '' The Pacific'' * ''

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'' * '' Sherlock'' ;3 nominations * '' Band of Brothers'' * ''

From the Earth to the Moon ''From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes'' (french: De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil W ...

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'' ;2 nominations * ''

American Crime Story ''American Crime Story'' is an American anthology true crime television series developed by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who are also executive producers, alongside Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Ryan Murphy, and Brad Simpson. The seri ...

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Horatio Hornblower Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester. He later became the subject of films, radio and television programmes, an ...

'' * '' Into the West'' * ''

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...

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Sound mixers with multiple nominations

;21 nominations * Robert L. Harman ;20 nominations * George E. Porter ;19 nominations * Eddie J. Nelson ;17 nominations * William McCaughey ;16 nominations * Richard D. Rogers ;15 nominations * Grover B. Helsley ;13 nominations * Rick Ash ;10 nominations * Joe Earle * Robert W. Glass Jr. * Ray West ;8 nominations * Rick Alexander * Doug Andham * Sam Black * David E. Fluhr * Adam Jenkins * Daniel J. Leahy * Mel Metcalfe ;7 nominations * John Asman * Kevin Patrick Burns * Joseph D. Citarella * Hoppy Mehterian * Tim Philben *

;6 nominations * Gordon L. Day * Howard Bargroff * Thomas J. Huth * Todd Orr * Howard Wilmarth * Howard Wollman ;5 nominations * Alan Bernard * Jay Meagher *

Scott Millan Scott Alexander Millan (born 1954) is an American sound re-recording mixer, a member of the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Sound Director for Technicolor at Paramount Studios. He is known for his colla ...

Michael Minkler Michael Minkler (born 14 May 1952) is a motion picture sound re-recording mixer. He has received Academy Awards for his work on ''Dreamgirls'', ''Chicago'' and '' Black Hawk Down''. His varied career has also included films like ''Inglourious Bast ...

* Bill Teague ;4 nominations * Terry O'Bright *

Chris Carpenter Christopher John Carpenter (born April 27, 1975) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals from 1997 to 2012. A Cy Young Award win ...

* Jacob Goldstein *

David J. Hudson David James Hudson (December 16, 1943 – May 21, 2011) was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. Selected filmography * '' Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'' (1986) * '' Beauty and ...

* Mark Linden * Bruce Litecky * Don MacDougall * John Mooney * Bob Pettis * Michael Playfair *

Keith A. Wester Keith A. Wester (February 21, 1940 – November 1, 2002) was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on nearly 60 films between 1966 and 2002. Selected filmography * '' Blac ...

* John Wilkinson ;3 nominations * John Bauman * Don Cahn * David E. Campbell *

* Michael C. Casper * Anthony Constantini * Jim Cook * John W. Cook II * Tamás Csaba * Joe DeAngelis * Mike Dowson * Henry Embry * Marc Fishman *

Joe Foglia Joe Foglia is an American sound mixer. He has worked on both movies and albums, including Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell. He began working in the film industry with the movie ''Miami Vice'', which resulted in an Emmy nomination for sound mixing. ...

* Judy Getz * Peter Gleaves * Robin Gregory * George R. Groves Jr. * Paul Hamblin * Charles T. Knight * Geoffrey Patterson * Tara A. Paul * Richard Portman * Andrew Ramage *

* Keith Rogers * David M. Ronne * Richard Schexnayder * Larry Stensvold * Mark Taylor *

* Stan Wetzel ;2 nominations * Gary Alexander * Wayne Artman * Douglas Axtell * Michael Barry * Eric Batut * Bob Beemer * Trevor Black * Onnalee Blank * Gary Bolger * Gary Bourgeois * Arnold Braun * Neil Brody * Bob Bronow * David Brownlow * Rudi Buckle * Bayard Carey * Colin Charles * Clark Conrad * Christian T. Cooke * Gary Coppola * Tony Dawe * Alan Decker * Don Digirolamo * Mary H. Ellis * Joel Fein * Robert Fernandez *

Tom Fleischman Tom Fleischman (born September 15, 1951) is an American sound engineer and re-recording mixer. He is the son of film editor Dede Allen, and documentary producer, director, and writer Stephen Fleischman. He has worked on over 170 films since 1978. ...

* Martin Fossum * Bill Freesh * Dominick Gaffey * Stanley P. Gordon * Roy Granville * Charles Grenzbach * Maury Harris * Rick Hart * John Hayward * Wayne Heitman * Mark Hensley * Stuart Hilliker * Lora Hirschberg * Walter Hoylman * Bobby Johanson * Donald F. Johnson * Simon Kaye * Drew Kunin * Tony Lamberti * David Lee * Martin Lee * Charles Lewis * Scott R. Lewis * Liam Lockheart * Kirk Lynds * Craig Mann * Bill Marky * Colin Martin * Grant Maxwell * Melvin M. Metcalfe * Don Minkler * Lee Minkler * Edward L. Moskowitz * Joel Moss * Douglas Murray * Doug Nelson * William Nicholson * Jacques Nosco * Mike Olman * Craig M. Otte * Clive Pendry * Thom K. Piper * Ken Polk * Richard Pryke * Richard Raguse * Kenneth B. Ross * Sean Rush * James Sabat *

Leslie Shatz Leslie Shatz is an American sound engineer. He was co-nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film ''The Mummy''. He has worked on more than 180 films since 1971. Selected filmography * ''Milk'' * ''Twilight'' * ''Wen ...

* Harry E. Snodgrass * Theodore Soderberg * Lou Solakofski * David Stephenson * Nelson Stoll * Alan L. Stone * Don Summer * Oren Sushko * Peter Sutton * James M. Tanenbaum * George Tarrant * Curly Thirlwell * Doug E. Turner * Dan Wallin * Joe White * Gary Wilkins * Nick Wollage * Brad Zoern

Notes

References

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