The Verna Fields Award is the Golden Reel Award which is annually presented by Motion Picture Sound Editors to a filmmaking student in order to recognize the excellence of their sound editing work. Luke Dunn Gielmuda of the Australian Film Television and Radio School won the 1998 award for his work on Preoccupied. At the 2004 Golden Reel Awards held at Century Plaza Hotel, Manny Holihan won the Verna Fields Award.
2006 Winner: Crooked Mick
Nominees: Afterlife Below the Silence Danya The Resurrectionist
2007 Winner: Temerario
Nominees: Bio Rhythm Dalton Jones Flapwing and the Last Work of Ezekiel Crumb Synchronoff
2008 Winner: Shot Open
Nominees: For the Love of God The Hollow Tree Procrastination Sea of Tranquility
2009 Winner: Mummy's Boy
Nominees: Cupid Elephants Four Joyets Street Angel
2010 Winner: Scarecrow
Nominees: The End of the Line The GodMother The Incredible Story of My Great Grandmother Olive Yellow Belly End
2011 Winner: Stanley Pickle
Nominees: The Confession En Route Psychosis Zbigniev's Cupboard
2012 Winner: The Pride of Wade Ellison
Nominees: Damned Inferno The Maiden and the Princess The Pride of Wade Ellison The Secret Numbers
2013 Winner: Head Over Heels
Nominees: Dawn Elie's Overcoat Exedia Nation Fragments Head Over Heels In Aeternam My Face is in Space Stumble
2014 Winner: Robomax
Nominees: Anamnesis First Light If You're Serious The Magnificent Lion Boy Miss Todd Robomax Sleeping With The Fishes
2015 Winner: Sea Odyssey
Nominees: Sin Frontera The Night Guardian Hominid Sea Odyssey Posthumous
2021 Winner: Build Me Up (Supervising Sound Editor: Wong Hui Grace)
Nominees: Cocon (Supervising Sound Editor: Freija Hogenboom, Sound Effects Editor: Camiel Povel, Foley Artist: Annika Epker) Build Me Up (Supervising Sound Editor: Wong Hui Grace) Do Not Feed the Pigeons (Supervising Sound Editor: Joe De-Vine) The Many Faces of Ava (Supervising Sound Editor: Dominika Latusek) Other Half (Supervising Sound Editor: Zoltán Kadnár) Night of the Living Dread (Supervising Sound Editor: Miles Sullivan) Pressure (Supervising Sound Editor: Antek Rutczynski) Échale Ganas, The Villa’s Tacos Story (Supervising Sound Editor: Mingxin Qiguan)
2022 Winner: Brutal (Supervising Sound Editor: Dan Hibbert)
Nominees: Ascent (Supervising Sound Editor: Guldem Masa) Brutal (Supervising Sound Editor: Dan Hibbert) Enemy Alien (Supervising Sound Editor: Jonathan Mendolicchio) Entertain Me (Supervising Sound Editor: Sam Titshof, Foley Artists: Nancy Konijn, Levi Cuijpers) Key of See (Supervising Sound Editor: Manuel Simon, Foley Artists: Conor Van Slyke, George Allan) Spring Roll Dream (Supervising Sound Editor: Carlos Eligio San Juan Juanchi) This Is Your Captain Speaking (Supervising Sound Editor: Zoé Beekes, Dialogue Editor: Felicia Koolhoven, Sound Effects Editors: Teun Beumer, Jurriaan Kruithof) Whiteboy (Supervising Sound Editor: Oliver Mapp)
2023 Nominees: Buyers Beware (Supervising Sound Editor: Matt Lemberger) Canary (Supervising Sound Editor: Mengchen Sun) Dive (Supervising Sound Editor: Simon Panayi) From The Top (Supervising Sound Editor: Etienne Kompis) Gossip (Supervising Sound Editor: Itzel Gonzalez Estrada) Heimen (Supervising Sound Editor: Eran Brinkman, Sound Effects Editor: Sam Titshof) The Tornado Outside (Supervising Sound Editor: Marios Themistokleous) Tree of Many Faces (Supervising Sound Editor: Siim Skepast)
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