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.[1] Luke Dunn Gielmuda of the Australian Film Television and Radio School won the 1998 award for his work on Preoccupied.[2] At the 2004 Golden Reel Awards held at Century Plaza Hotel, Manny Holihan won the Verna Fields Award.[3]
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)
 
References
- ↑ "Verna Fields Award and Ethel Crutcher Scholarship". Motion Picture Sound Editors. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
 - ↑ "Golden Reel Nomination". Australian Screen Sound Guild. Archived from the original on October 9, 2009. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
 - ↑ "APM Presents Manny Holihan With MSPE Student Film Award". Mix. March 10, 2004. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved February 18, 2010.