Andy Nelson Talks ‘Elvis,’ ‘The Batman’ on THR’s ‘Behind the Display screen’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Veteran rerecording mixer Andy Nelson describes working with Baz Luhrmann, Matt Reeves and Steven Spielberg in a brand new episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Behind The Display screen. 

This season, Nelson prolonged his Oscar nominations tally to 24, with a pair of noms for his work on Luhrmann’s Elvis and Reeves’ The Batman. In doing so, he additionally prolonged his report for essentially the most noms within the sound class.

Describing Luhrmann as a “artistic twister” and Austin Butler’s efficiency within the title function as “sensible,” Nelson particulars how they used a lot of Butler’s vocals within the movie, in addition to within the performances within the later half of the film, a fragile mix with archival materials of Presley. Essentially the most difficult, he says, was the sound staff’s work to recreate the memorable 1968 Comeback Particular. “The unique audio for that was really a mono from a VHS from the transmission of the TV present, so you may think about how that sounded in comparison with every part we’d finished within the film as much as that time in full 9.1 Atmos,” he says, describing how this was achieved. “It was an enormous dance we did to get that comeback particular to sound the best way it did.”

Nelson additionally talks about how he loves working with The Batman helmer Reeves. “He needs to get [each] scene proper earlier than we’re prepared to maneuver onto the following scene,” Nelson says. “It’s very intense. It’s very collaborative. He’s all the time in nice spirits about it, and now we have a good time with him.” Describing The Batman as a kind of “noir detective story,” Nelson says the sound “actually referred to as for one thing that had that form of moody high quality to it [which involved elements including] sound of the town and the rain and Michael Giacchino’s rating, which I feel is one among Michael’s finest. And I’ve labored with him a number of occasions, and he’s all the time good. However boy did he actually pull it out on this one.”

Through the podcast, the rerecording mixer additionally talks about working along with his decades-long collaborator Steven Spielberg on the director’s extremely private The Fabelmans, and he congratulates manufacturing sound mixer Peter J. Devlin on his Cinema Audio Society Profession Achievement Award.

Subsequent, Nelson is beginning work on Michael Mann’s Ferrari, starring Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari and Penelope Cruz as his spouse, Laura. “I’m actually enthusiastic about it,” he says.

You’ll be able to hearken to the complete podcast right here: