Veteran rerecording mixer Andy Nelson describes working with Baz Luhrmann, Matt Reeves and Steven Spielberg.

This season, Nelson extended his Oscar nominations tally to 24, with a pair of nominations for his work on Luhrmann’s Elvis and Reeves’ The Batman.

In doing so, he also extended his record for the most nominations in the sound category.

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Describing Luhrmann as a creative tornado” and Austin Butler’s performance in the title role as “brilliant,” Nelson details how they used much of Butler’s vocals in the film, as well as in the performances in the later half of the movie, a delicate blend with archival material of Presley.

The most challenging, he says, was the sound team’s work to recreate the memorable 1968 Comeback Special. “The original audio for that was actually a mono from a VHS from the transmission of the TV show, so you can imagine how that sounded compared to everything we’d done in the movie up to that point in full 9.1 Atmos,” he says, describing how this was achieved. “It was a massive dance we did to get that comeback special to sound the way it did.”

The rerecording mixer also talks about working with his decades-long collaborator Spielberg on the highly personal The Fabelmans.

He congratulates production sound mixer Peter J. Devlin on his Cinema Audio Society Career Achievement Award.

Next, Nelson is starting work on Michael Mann’s Ferrari, starring Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari and Penelope Cruz as his wife, Laura. “I’m really excited about it,” he says.