Why Maverick won the Oscar for sound design.

I am only interested in recording and listening to real events. Recording studios are the wrong place to capture compelling sound.

I usually hate movie soundtracks because there is no reality. The dialog is overdubbed in a Post studio with fake acoustics, sound effects are synthesized or from a canned library, the music is a hundred tracks whether it came from a MIDI controller or actual musicians spread over a sound stage with gobos so it has a feeling of notes from nowhere and going nowhere.

"Top Gun: Maverick" won the Oscar for sound design this round, and their secret sauce was REALITY.

Although the final soundtrack was highly manipulated and manipulative after months of team editing, it started with a huge library of sounds collected not only during the filming of real jet flight (almost all of the movie scenes except the opening sequence), but also from field recordings from airfields and carriers to capture reality. They also recorded the in-air dialog using real pilot's helmets, and other cockpit sounds were recorded in cockpits too.