# Michelle Couttolenc

Michelle Couttolenc is a Mexican sound engineer. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Sound and the BAFTA Award for Best Sound for the film Sound of Metal. Along with fellow nominees Jaime Baksht and Carlos Cortés Navarrete, she became the first Mexican sound engineer who won an Academy Award and the first Mexican woman sound engineer to ever be nominated. She is also the recipient of six Ariel Awards for Best Sound.

## Selected filmography

* Pedro Páramo (2024; re-recording mixer)
* La cocina (2024; re-recording mixer)
* Memory (2023; re-recording mixer)
* Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023; re-recording mixer)
* El eco (2023; re-recording mixer)
* Cassandro (2023; re-recording mixer)
* Familia (2023; re-recording mixer)
* The Kings of the World (2022; re-recording mixer)
* Rebel (2022; re-recording mixer)
* A Cop Movie (2021; re-recording mixer)
* New Order (2020; re-recording mixer)
* Sound of Metal (2020; Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Sound co-won with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh)
* I'm No Longer Here (2019; re-recording mixer)
* Roma (2018; adr re-recordist)
* Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Ana y Bruno (2017; re-recording mixer)
* ¿Qué culpa tiene el niño? (2016; re-recording mixer)
* The 4th Company (2016; re-recording mixer assistant)
* You're Killing Me Susana (2016; re-recording mixer assistant)
* The Thin Yellow Line (2015; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Gloria (2014; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Güeros (2014; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Instructions Not Included (2013; re-recording mixer assistant)
* The Golden Dream (2013; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Post Tenebras Lux (2012; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Perras (2011; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Abel (2010; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Paradas continuas (2009; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Rudo y cursi (2008; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Presumed Guilty (2008; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Silent Light (2007; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Déficit (2007; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Efectos secundarios (2006; re-recording mixer assistant)
* Pan's Labyrinth (2006; re-recording mixer assistant)

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominated Work | Result |
| 2014 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound (Mejor sonido), shared with Jaime Baksht and Pablo Tamez Sierra | Tercera llamada | Nominated |
| 2014 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Jaime Baksht and Raúl Locatelli | The Golden Dream | Won |
| 2014 | Fénix Awards | Best Sound, shared with Matías Barberis, Jaime Baksht and Raúl Locatelli | The Golden Dream | Won |
| 2015 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Isabel Muñoz Cota, Pedro González, Axel Muñoz, Kiyoshi Osawa, Gabriel Reyna and Jaime Baksht | Güeros | Won |
| 2016 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Matías Barberis and Jaime Baksht | Gloria | Won |
| 2017 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Isabel Muñoz Cota, Javier Umpierrez and Jaime Baksht | The 4th Company | Won |
| 2017 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Fernando Cámara, Stan Mak, Steven Avila, Trip Brock and Jaime Baksht | You're Killing Me Susana | Nominated |
| 2018 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Matías Barberis, Bernat Fortiana, Pablo Tamez Sierra and Jaime Baksht | La libertad del diablo | Nominated |
| 2018 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Emilio Cortés, Martín Hernández, Alejandro Quevedo and Jaime Baksht | Tigers Are Not Afraid | Nominated |
| 2018 | Fénix Awards | Best Sound, shared with Javier Umpierrez, Isabel Muñoz Cota and Jaime Baksht | Museo | Nominated |
| 2019 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Javier Umpierrez, Isabel Muñoz Cota and Jaime Baksht | Museo | Nominated |
| 2019 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Raúl Locatelli, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Jaime Baksht and Javier Umpierrez | Our Time | Nominated |
| 2020 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Isabel Muñoz Cota, Christian Giraud, Alejandro de Icaza and Jaime Baksht | Belzebuth | Nominated |
| 2020 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound (Mejor dirección de sonido), shared with Javier Umpierrez, Olaitan Agueh, Yuri Laguna and Jaime Baksht | I'm No Longer Here | Won |
| 2021 | Platino Awards | Best Sound (Mejor dirección de sonido), shared with Javier Umpierrez, Olaitan Agueh, Yuri Laguna and Jaime Baksht | I'm No Longer Here | Nominated |
| 2021 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Raúl Locatelli, Alejandro de Icaza and Jaime Baksht | New Order | Nominated |
| 2021 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with José Miguel Enríquez, Federico González Jordán and Jaime Baksht | Tragic Jungle | Nominated |
| 2021 | Academy Awards | Best Sound, shared with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh | Sound of Metal | Won |
| 2021 | BAFTA Awards | Best Sound, shared with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh | Sound of Metal | Won |
| 2021 | Gold Derby Awards | Best Sound, shared with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh | Sound of Metal | Won |
| 2021 | Cinema Audio Society | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures - Live Action, shared with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Phillip Bladh and Kari Vähäkuopus | Sound of Metal | Won |
| 2021 | Satellite Awards | Best Sound (Editing & Mixing), shared with Phillip Bladh, Nicolas Becker, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Jaime Baksht and Maria Carolina Santana Caraballo-Gramcko | Sound of Metal | Won |
| 2021 | Latino Entertainment Journalist Association Film Awards | Best Sound, shared with Phillip Bladh, Nicolas Becker, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Jaime Baksht and Maria Carolina Santana Caraballo-Gramcko | Sound of Metal | Won |
| 2021 | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Sound Design, shared with Nicolas Becker and Phillip Bladh | Sound of Metal | Won |
| 2021 | International Online Cinema Awards | Best Sound Mixing, shared with Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Jaime Baksht | Sound of Metal | Won |
| 2021 | Asociation of Motion Picture Sound | Excellence in Sound for a Feature Film, shared with Phillip Bladh, Jeremy Eisener, Nicolas Becker and Jaime Baksht | Sound of Metal | Won |
| 2021 | Minnesota Film Critics Alliance Awards | Best Sound Work, shared with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh | Sound of Metal | Won |
| 2021 | Hollywood Professional Association Awards | Outstanding Sound - Teathrical Feature, shared with Nicolas Becker, Carolina Santana Caraballo-Gramcko, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Jaime Baksht | Sound of Metal | Nominated |
| 2021 | Golden Reel Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film, shared with Nicolas Becker and Carolina Santana Caraballo-Gramcko | Sound of Metal | Nominated |
| 2022 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Guido Berenblum, Santiago Arroyo and Jaime Baksht | El hoyo en la cerca | Nominated |
| 2022 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Isabel Muñoz Cota, Javier Umpierrez and Jaime Baksht | A Cop Movie | Nominated |
| 2023 | Macondo Awards | Best Sound (Mejor sonido), shared with Carlos García and Boris Herrera Allende | The Kings of the World | Won |
| 2023 | Ensor Awards | Best Sound (Beste Geluid), shared with Jaime Baksht, Guilhem Donzel, Jeroen Truijens and Loïc Collignon | Rebel | Nominated |
| 2024 | Mucuripe Trophy Cine Ceará Ibero- American Film Festival | Best Sound (Melhor som) shared with Jaime Baksht, Valeria López Mancheva and Lena Esquenazi | En La Caliente: Tales of a Reggaeton Warrior | Won |
| 2024 | Ariel Awards | Best Sound, shared with Martin de Torcy, Lena Esquenazi and Jaime Baksht | El eco | Nominated |
| 2024 | Gopo Awards | Best Sound (Cel mai bun sunet), shared with Hrvoje Radnic, Marius Leftãrache, Mariana Balan and Jaime Baksht | Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World | Nominated |