Sylvain Bellemare

Sylvain Bellemare (born February 20, 1968) is a Canadian sound editor and sound designer, best known internationally as the supervising sound editor of Arrival, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Sound (shared with Claude La Haye and Bernard Gariépy Strobl) and the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. He is also known for Soft Shell Man (2001), It's Not Me, I Swear! (2008), Incendies (2010), Monsieur Lazhar (2011), Gabrielle (2013) and Endorphine (2015). He frequently works with Quebec filmmakers Philippe Falardeau or Denis Villeneuve.

Awards and nominations Film Year Award Result Ref(s) Incendies 2011 Genie Award for Best Sound Editing Jutra Award for Best Sound Inch'Allah 2013 Jutra Award for Best Sound Monsieur Lazhar Gabrielle 2014 Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing Amsterdam Endorphine 2016 Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing Arrival 2017 Academy Award for Best Sound Editing Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film Before the Streets Prix Iris for Best Sound All You Can Eat Buddha 2018 Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing Prix Iris for Best Sound And the Birds Rained Down 2020 Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing Sympathy for the Devil Prix Iris for Best Sound Goddess of the Fireflies 2021 The Decline