Why Top Gun won the Oscar for sound

Supervising sound producer Al Nelson breaks down the Mach 10 sequence. Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don t miss any videos: One of the most exciting things about Top Gun: Maverick is their emphasis on practical effects. Most times, when you see the films actors struggling against highlevel gforces, that struggle is real. The actors spent months training to be in planes doing their own stunts, and the whole film feels grounded because of it. Most times these sequences were shot practically but not every time. In the film s incredible sevenminute opener (also known as the Darkstar sequence), nearly everything we see is completely fake. The plane used to go Mach 10 doesnt really exist yet. Its a prototype for a plane that will exist in the future, built by Lockheed Martin. While a prototype of that plane was used for taxiing around the runway, anytime we see the plane in the air its entirely VFX impeccable VFX. But beyond the VF