Every year, a handful of blockbuster movies get to tout themselves as Academy Award nominees due to their technical prowess.
Should 13 Hours win the award for Best Sound Mixing, here’s hoping the remaining nominees don’t feel like their good work has in any way been sullied by the campaign efforts of their colleague.
Back in 2014, for example, songwriter Bruce Broughton saw his Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song be revoked after the Academy discovered that Broughton had actively campaigned Academy members to vote for his song.
While only Russell and the Academy know the full extent of his efforts to secure 13 Hours an Oscar win, this is no doubt a sad day for the entire sound team for the film.