The sounds of 'Lincoln,' 'Django' and 'Skyfall'

Thanks to this year's Oscar nominees for sound editing and sound mixing, filmgoers got an earful of the 38th U.S. Congress, so-called Mandingo fighting and James Bond's Aston Martin DB5. Sound editors design, collect or create the sounds heard in a film; sound mixers blend the elements of dialogue, sound effects and score into a movie's finished soundtrack. We talk to a few about what got them excited about their films.

By Cristy Lytal

January 31, 2013