Sylvain Bellemare
# 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 (2016), 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 |
| - | - | - | - |
| Incendies | 2011 | Genie Award for Best Sound Editing | Won |
| Incendies | 2011 | Jutra Award for Best Sound | Won |
| Inch'Allah | 2013 | Jutra Award for Best Sound | Nominated |
| Monsieur Lazhar | 2013 | Jutra Award for Best Sound | Won |
| Gabrielle | 2014 | Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing | Nominated |
| Amsterdam | 2014 | Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing | Nominated |
| Endorphine | 2016 | Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing | Nominated |
| Arrival | 2017 | Academy Award for Best Sound Editing | Won |
| Arrival | 2017 | BAFTA Award for Best Sound | Won |
| Arrival | 2017 | Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Dialogue and ADR for Feature Film | Nominated |
| Arrival | 2017 | Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film | Nominated |
| Before the Streets | 2017 | Prix Iris for Best Sound | Nominated |
| All You Can Eat Buddha | 2018 | Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing | Nominated |
| All You Can Eat Buddha | 2018 | Prix Iris for Best Sound | Nominated |
| And the Birds Rained Down | 2020 | Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing | Nominated |
| Sympathy for the Devil | 2020 | Prix Iris for Best Sound | Won |
| Goddess of the Fireflies | 2021 | Prix Iris for Best Sound | Nominated |
| The Decline | 2021 | Prix Iris for Best Sound | Nominated |
