# Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR for Feature Documentary

The Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR for Feature Documentary is an annual award given by the Motion Picture Sound Editors. It honors sound editors whose work has warranted merit in the field of cinema; in this case, their work in the field of documentary films. It was first awarded in 2010.

## Winners and nominees
### 2010s
#### Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue, ADR and Music in a Feature Documentary

| Year | Film | Winners/Nominees |
| 2010 | Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage | David Rose (supervising sound editor, sound effects editor, music editor), Andrew Wright (sound effects editor, music editor), Stephen Barden (dialogue editor) |
| 2010 | Babies | Samy Bardet (supervising sound editor, sound designer, supervising Foley editor), Thierry Lebon (supervising sound editor), Eric Chevallier (supervising dialogue editor), Jérôme Faurel (music editor), Philippe Penot (Foley artist) |
| 2010 | Catfish | Coll Anderson (supervising sound editor), Matt Snedecor (sound designer) |
| 2010 | Exit Through the Gift Shop | Jack Gillies (supervising sound editor), Jim Carey (sound designer) |
| 2010 | Inside Job | Tom Efinger (supervising sound editor), Abigail Savage (sound designer) |
| 2010 | Restrepo | Coll Anderson (supervising sound editor), Matt Snedecor (sound designer) |
| 2010 | Waiting for "Superman" | Skip Lievsay (supervising sound editor), Byron Wilson (dialogue editor), Joel Dougherty (sound effects editor), Phil Barrie (sound effects editor), Erica Weis (music editor) |
| 2011 | George Harrison: Living in the Material World | Philip Stockton (supervising sound editor), Allan Zaleski (sound designer), Jennifer L. Dunnington (music editor) |
| 2011 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | Ken Hahn (supervising sound editor), Jay Fisher (sound effects/Foley editor), Kevin Bluhm (music editor) |
| 2011 | Cave of Forgotten Dreams | Eric Spitzer (sound) |
| 2011 | Lemmy | Greg Olliver (supervising sound editor) |
| 2011 | Pearl Jam Twenty | Eric R. Fischer (sound designer), Kevin Klauber (sound designer), Chris Perkel (sound designer) |
| 2012 | Last Call at the Oasis | Peter Brown (supervising sound editor), Paul Aulicino (sound effects editor), Glynna Grimala (dialogue editor), Kim Roberts (music editor) |
| 2012 | Bully | Christopher Barnett (supervising sound editor, supervising dialogue editor), Al Nelson (sound designer), Gary Rydstrom (sound designer), Michael Furjanic (music editor), Pete Horner (editor), Bob Edwards (editor), Pascal Garneau (editor) |
| 2012 | Climate Refugees | Sam Londe (supervising sound editor, sound designer), Steven Avila (sound designer), Steven Utt (music editor), Peter D. Lago (sound effects editor), Michael Turner (sound effects editor), Stephen Spencer (sound effects editor), Bryon Speller (dialogue editor), Brian S.M. Wroth (dialogue editor), Alexander Pugh (sound effects editor) |
| 2012 | Jiro Dreams of Sushi | Darren 'Sunny' Warkentin (supervising sound editor, sound designer), Tim Hoogenakker (supervising dialogue editor), Anthony Vanchure (Foley artist, sound effects editor), Robert Weiss (sound effects editor), Chris Johnston (Foley editor) |
| 2012 | Marley | Glenn Freemantle (supervising sound editor), Danny Freemantle (sound editor), Ben Barker (sound editor), Nina Hartstone (sound editor) |
| 2012 | Searching for Sugar Man | Per Nyström (supervising sound editor), Malik Bendjelloul (sound editor) |
| 2013 | Dirty Wars | Christopher Barnett (supervising sound editor, sound designer), Brandon Proctor (sound designer) |
| 2013 | 1 | Lon Bender (supervising sound editor), Beau Borders (supervising sound editor), Bill R. Dean (sound designer), Ryan Meadows (sound designer), Jeremy B. Davis (supervising Foley editor), Nicholas Interlandi (sound effects editor) |
| 2013 | 20 Feet from Stardom | Al Nelson (supervising sound editor, sound designer), Kim Foscato (supervising sound editor), Pete Horner (music editor) |
| 2013 | CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion | Andrew DeCristofaro (supervising sound editor), Michael Payne (sound designer), John C. Stuver (dialogue editor), Sally Boldt (music editor) |
| 2013 | Good Ol' Freda | Henry Auerbach (supervising sound editor), Justin Rickard (sound designer) |
| 2013 | Muscle Shoals | Christopher Koch (supervising sound editor), Randy Matuszewski (sound designer), Eric Di Stefano (sound designer), Elizabeth Fausak (supervising dialogue editor), Richard Lowe (music editor) |
| 2013 | Rising from Ashes | David Barber (supervising sound editor, supervising dialogue editor), Ben Zarai (supervising sound editor), Michael Kreple (sound designer), Sean Gray (sound designer), Gonzalo Espinoza (supervising Foley editor, supervising ADR editor), David Kitchens (Foley artist) |
| 2013 | Sound City | Lihi Orbach (sound editor) |
| 2014 | Warsaw Uprising | Kacper Habisiak (supervising sound editor), Bartosz Putkiewicz (supervising sound editor), Marcin Kasinski (sound designer), Dariusz Stanek (sound designer), Henryk Zastrózny (supervising Foley editor), Filip Krzemien (supervising dialogue editor, supervising ADR editor), Jacek Wisniewski (Foley artist), Jacek Pajak (Foley artist), Aleksandra Pajak (sound effects editor), Anna Kufirska (sound effects editor), Filip Krzyzykowski (sound effects editor), Tomasz Maciatek (dialogue editor, ADR editor), Agnieszka Putkiewicz (supervising music editor), Dariusz Podhajski (music editor), Anna Malarowska (music editor), Stefan Gawlowski (ADR editor), Maciej Wiejaczka (ADR editor), Jaroslaw Bajdowski (ADR editor), Mariusz Bielecki (ADR editor), Mariusz Andrysik (ADR editor), Michal Kosterkiewicz (sound effects editor) |
| 2014 | America: Imagine the World Without Her | David Barber (supervising sound editor, supervising dialogue editor, supervising ADR editor), David Kitchens (supervising sound editor, Foley artist), Ben Zarai (sound designer), Ken Skoglund (sound designer), Randy Torres (sound designer), Gonzalo Espinoza (supervising Foley editor, supervising ADR editor), Shaun R. Fabos (Foley artist), Sean Gray (sound effects editor), Michael Kreple (sound effects editor) |
| 2014 | Citizenfour | Frank Kruse (supervising sound editor, sound designer), Alexander Buck (supervising dialogue editor, supervising ADR editor), Carsten Richter (Foley artist), Markus Stemler (sound effects editor), Helene Seidl (sound effects editor), Hans Schumann (music editor) |
| 2014 | Deepsea Challenge 3D | Chris Goodes (supervising sound editor), Steve Burgess (sound designer), George Alamaras (supervising Foley editor), Andy Wright (supervising dialogue editor, supervising ADR editor), Mario Vaccaro (Foley artist), James Ashton (sound effects editor), Glenn Newnham (sound effects editor), Jason Fernandez (music editor), Peter Hoyland (music editor) |
| 2014 | EDC 2013: Under the Electric Sky | Ben Wilkins (supervising sound editor, sound designer), Craig Mann (supervising sound editor, dialogue editor, ADR editor), Dawn Lunsford (Foley artist), Alicia Stevenson (Foley artist), Lauren Hadaway (sound effects editor), Andy Brohard (music editor) |
| 2014 | Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me | Milos Zivkovic (supervising sound editor), Elisa Bonora (dialogue editor, ADR editor), Brooke Wentz (supervising music editor), Alice Wood (music editor) |
| 2014 | Jodorowsky's Dune | Jesse Flower-Ambroch (supervising sound editor) |
| 2015 | Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck | Cameron Frankley (supervising sound editor), Dan Kenyon (sound effects editor), Jon Michaels (music editor) |
| 2015 | A Faster Horse | Mark P. Stoeckinger (supervising sound editor), Luke Gibleon (supervising sound editor), Will Digby (sound editor), Filippa Nilsson (sound editor), Cliff Latimer (dialogue/ADR editor), Richard Ziegler (music editor) |
| 2015 | Amy | Andy Shelley (supervising sound editor), Stephen Griffiths (supervising sound editor), Barnaby Smyth (supervising Foley editor), Robin Whittaker (music editor), John Kurlander (music editor) |
| 2015 | Best of Enemies | Pete Horner (supervising sound editor), Al Nelson (sound designer), Andre Zweers (sound effects editor) |
| 2015 | The Wrecking Crew! | Bob Bronow (supervising sound editor, music editor) |
| 2015 | What Happened, Miss Simone? | Tony Volante (supervising sound editor, supervising dialogue editor), Daniel Timmons (sound effects editor, music editor), Joshua L. Pearson (sound effects editor, music editor) |
| 2015 | Racing Extinction | Tim Nielsen (supervising sound editor, sound designer), Christopher Barnett (supervising sound editor), Dennie Thorpe (Foley artist), Jana Vance (Foley artist), Frank Rinella (Foley artist), Jonathan Borland (sound effects editor), Liz Gallacher (supervising music editor), Arthur Pingrey (music editor) |
| 2015 | Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Oleg Kulchytskyi (supervising sound editor), Maksym Skorupskyi (sound designer), Vadim Stolyar (dialogue/ADR editor) |
| 2016 | The Music of Strangers | Pete Horner (supervising sound editor), Al Nelson (sound designer), Andre Zweers (sound effects editor) |
| 2016 | 13th | Tim Boggs (supervising sound editor), Julie Pearce (music editor), Lise Richardson (music editor), Jeffrey Perkins (sound designer), Alex Lee (sound effects editor) |
| 2016 | Amanda Knox | Chris Stangroom (supervising sound editor), Tom Paul (supervising sound editor), Stephen C. Davies (dialogue editor), Diego Jimenez (sound effects editor), Max Holland (sound effects editor), Jesse Peterson (sound effects editor), Oscar Convers (sound effects editor), Joanna Fang (Foley artist), Leslie Bloome (Foley artist), Ryan Collison (Foley editor), Nick Seaman (Foley editor) |
| 2016 | Before the Flood | Allan Zaleski (supervising sound editor), Dave Paterson (sound designer), Lawrence Herman (dialogue editor), Sylvia Menno (dialogue editor), Grant Elder (sound effects editor), Ren Klyce (music editor) |
| 2016 | Passage to Mars | Trip Brock (supervising sound editor), Steven Avila (supervising sound editor), Ian Shedd (supervising dialogue editor), Ben Whitver (dialogue editor), Shasha Dong (dialogue editor), Raymond Park (sound effects editor), Peter D. Lago (sound effects editor), Alexander Pugh (sound effects editor), Jean-Christophe Jeauffre (sound effects editor), Matt Salib (Foley artist), Terry Boyd Jr. (Foley artist) |
| 2016 | The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years | Cameron Frankley (supervising sound editor), Jon Michaels (supervising sound editor), Harrison Meyle (dialogue editor), Melissa Muik (music editor), Dan Kenyon (sound effects editor), Will Digby (sound effects editor) |
| 2016 | The Eagle Huntress | Lewis Goldstein (supervising sound editor), Tom Ryan (supervising sound editor), Pierre Takal (sound designer), Wen Hsuan Tseng (Foley editor), Shaun Brennan (Foley artist), Alex Soto (sound effects editor) |
| 2016 | The Ivory Game | Michael Plöderl (sound supervisor), Thomas Kathriner (sound supervisor), Klaus Gartner (dialogue editor), Bernhard Zorzi (sound designer), Bernd Dormayer (sound effects editor) |
| 2017 | Jane | Warren Shaw (supervising sound editor), Joshua Paul Johnson (supervising sound editor), Peter Staubli (sound designer), Odin Benitez (sound designer), Will Digby (dialogue editor), Tara Blume (Foley artist), Suzana Peric (music editor) |
| 2017 | Bill Nye: Science Guy | Peter Albrechtsen (supervising sound editor, sound designer), Morten Groth Brandt (sound effects editor), Jacques Pedersen (dialogue editor), Pietu Korhonen (Foley editor), Heikki Kossi (Foley artist) |
| 2017 | Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars | Andy Shelley (supervising sound editor), Stephen Griffiths (supervising sound editor), Justin Dolby (dialogue editor), Keith Partridge (Foley editor), Barnaby Smyth (Foley artist) |
| 2017 | Icarus | E.J. Holowicki (supervising sound editor), Christopher Barnett (supervising sound editor), Adam Peters (supervising music editor), Mikael Sandgren (music editor) |
| 2017 | Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS | Mary Ellen Porto (supervising sound editor), Michael Suarez (dialogue editor), Rachel Chancey (Foley editor) |
| 2017 | In Pursuit of Silence | Steve Bissinger (supervising sound editor, sound designer), Shaun Farley (dialogue editor), Zach Martin (sound effects editor) |
| 2017 | An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power | Kent Sparling (sound designer), Zach Martin (sound effects editor), Gwendolyn Yates Whittle (dialogue editor), Andrea Gard (Foley editor, Foley artist) |
| 2017 | Score: A Film Music Documentary | Kari Barber (supervising sound editor, sound effects editor, Foley editor), Peter Bawiec (supervising sound editor, dialogue editor, music editor) |
| 2018 | Free Solo | Deborah Wallach (supervising sound editor), Filipe Messeder (sound effects editor), Nuno Bento (Foley artist), Roland Vajs (Foley editor) |
| 2018 | They Shall Not Grow Old | Martin Kwok (supervising sound editor), Brent Burge (supervising sound editor), Melanie Graham (supervising sound editor), Justin Webster (supervising sound editor), Emile de la Rey (supervising sound editor), Nigel Stone (ADR supervisor), Hayden Collow (sound effects editor), Dave Whitehead (sound effects editor), Matt Stutter (dialogue editor), Helen Luttrell (dialogue editor), Chris Todd (dialogue editor), Matthew Lambourn (dialogue editor), James Carroll (Foley artist), Craig Tomlinson (Foley editor), Tom Scott-Toft (Foley editor) |
| 2018 | Generation Wealth | Peter Albrechtsen (supervising sound editor, sound designer), Jacques Pedersen (dialogue editor), Lars Halvorsen (sound editor) |
| 2018 | McQueen | Alex Outhwaite (supervising sound editor), Richard Kondal (supervising sound editor), Jack Gillies (sound designer), Stelios Koupetoris (dialogue editor), Paula Boram (Foley artist), Ricky Butt (Foley artist), Jamie Roden (Foley editor) |
| 2018 | Quincy | Danika Benton Wikke (supervising sound editor), Taylor Westerfield (sound effects editor) |
| 2018 | Shirkers | Lawrence Everson (supervising sound editor, sound designer), Cindy Takehara Ferruccio (dialogue editor) |
| 2018 | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Peter Mullen (supervising sound editor), Graham Barclay (dialogue editor) |
| 2018 | Three Identical Strangers | Nas Parkash (dialogue editor), Kim Tae Hak (sound effects editor), Chad Orororo (Foley editor) |
| 2018 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Pete Horner (supervising sound editor), Al Nelson (sound designer), Teresa Eckton (sound effects editor) |
| 2019 | Echo in the Canyon | Robert Stambler (sound designer), Sal Ojeda (dialogue editor) |
| 2019 | Apollo 11 | Eric Milano (supervising sound editor, sound designer, Foley artist) |
| 2019 | Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice | Milos Zivkovic (supervising sound editor), John Boylan (supervising music editor), Julian Raymond (supervising music editor), Bennett Salvay (supervising music editor) |
| 2019 | Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound | Kimberly Patrick (supervising sound editor), Qianbaihui Yang (supervising sound editor), Sung Rok Choi (dialogue editor) |
| 2019 | Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese | Philip Stockton (supervising sound editor) |
| 2019 | Sea of Shadows | Bernhard Zorzi (sound designer), Michael Plöderl (dialogue editor), Bernd Dormayer (Foley editor) |
| 2019 | The Cave | Peter Albrechtsen (supervising sound editor), Lars Ginzel (supervising dialogue editor), Rana Eid (sound effects editor), Mikkel Nielsen (sound effects editor), Thomas Pape (sound effects editor), Theodora Flygt (dialogue editor), Graeme Stewart (supervising music editor), Heikki Kossi (Foley editor), Lars Halvorsen (Foley editor), Anne Tolkkinen (Foley editor) |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Winners/Nominees |
| 2020 | The Reason I Jump | Laurence Love Greed, Alexej Mungersdorff, Jack Wensley (sound effects editors); Jamie McPhee (dialogue editor); Srdjan Kurpjel (Foley editor) |
| 2020 | The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart | Jonathan Greber (supervising sound editor), Pascal Garneau (sound effects editor) |
| 2020 | Crip Camp | Jacob Bloomfield-Misrach (supervising sound editor); William Sammons, James LeBrecht (sound designers); Greg Francis (dialogue editor); Bijan Sharifi (Foley editor) |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Richard Gould (sound effects editor), Christopher Barnett (sound designer) |
| 2020 | My Octopus Teacher | Barry Donnelly (supervising sound editor), Charl Mostert (Foley artist) |
| 2020 | Rebuilding Paradise | David Hughes, Richard Gould (sound effects editors); Christopher Barnett (sound designer) |
| 2020 | The Social Dilemma | Richard Gould (supervising sound editor), James Spencer (dialogue editor), Andrea Gard (Foley artist) |
| 2020 | Zappa | Lon Bender (supervising sound editor); Alex Nomick, P. Daniel Newman, Chris Kahwaty (sound effects editors); Ryan Owens, George Anderson, Nick Pavey (dialogue editors) |
| 2021 | The Rescue | Deborah Wallach (supervising sound editor), Roland Vajs (sound effects editor), Ben Smithers (music editor), Nuno Bentro (Foley artist) |
| 2021 | Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry | Richard Yawn (supervising sound editor); Steven Avila (sound effects editor); Shawn Kennelly (Foley editor); Rob Getty (dialogue editor); Michael Brake (music editor); Melissa Kennelly, Vince Nicastro (Foley artists) |
| 2021 | Flee | Edward Björner (supervising sound editor); Fredrik Jonsäter (sound designer); Jens Johansson (dialogue editor); Rune Van Deurs, Bengt Öberg (Foley artists) |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul | Joshua L. Pearson (supervising sound editor); Jimmy Douglass (supervising music editor) |
| 2021 | Val | John Bolen (supervising sound editor, dialogue/sound effects/Foley editor) |
| 2021 | The Velvet Underground | Leslie Shatz (supervising sound editor), Jahn Sood (music editor) |
| 2022 | Good Night Oppy | Mark Mangini (supervising sound editor); Tim Walston, Dave Whitehead, Mark Mangini (sound designers); Dave Bach (supervising dialogue editor) |
| 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black and Blues | Leslie Shatz (supervising sound editor and sound designer); Jon Flores (supervising dialogue editor) |
| 2022 | Moonage Daydream | Nina Hartstone (supervising sound editor); Samir Foco, James Shirley (sound designers); Louise Burton (sound editor) |
| 2022 | The Territory | Rune Klausen, Peter Albrechtsen (supervising sound editors and sound designers); Mikkel Nielsen, Tim Nielsen (sound effects editor); Sebastian Vaskio, Guilherme Tortolo Magrin (dialogue editors); Pietu Korhonen (Foley editor); Heikki Kossi (Foley artist) |