Interviews With "F1" Editor, Visual Effects Supervisor & The Sound Team

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

"F1" (marketed as "F1: The Movie") is an American sports drama film starring Brad Pitt as Formula One (F1) racing driver Sonny Hayes, who returns after a 30-year absence to save his former teammate's underdog team, APXGP, from collapse. The film was directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer with a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, following their previous collaboration on "Top Gun: Maverick." The film received positive reviews from critics, became the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2025, and grossed $631.5 million worldwide against a $200–300 million budget. As of 2025, the film is also the highest-grossing auto racing film of all time, the highest-grossing film by Apple Studios, and the highest-grossing film of Pitt's career. The Next Best Picture team was lucky enough to spend some time speaking with various members of the production over the last couple of weeks, including editor Stephen Mirrione, the sound team, which consists of Supervising sound editors Al Nelson and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Re-recording mixers Gary Rizzo, and Juan Peralta, Production sound mixer Gareth John, and Visual Effects Supervisor Ryan Tudhope. You can listen to the interviews below, and be sure to check out the film, now available to stream on Apple TV and up for your consideration in all eligible categories for the 98th Academy Awards. Thank you and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast and V's or Will Mavity's interviews with the editor for the film F1, Stephen Murione.
0:09.3	Followed by his interview with the sound team, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates, Whittle, Gary Rizzo, Juan Peralta, and Garif John.
0:17.7	And then, his interview with the visual effects supervisor, Ryan Tudhope.
0:22.8	We hope you enjoy this behind the seeds look at F1.
0:26.6	Some people look at Sunny Hayes.
0:30.9	They see a guy who lives in a van, a gambling junkie who missed his shot.
0:39.6	The best that never was.
0:43.3	But I see.
0:46.3	Possibility.
0:48.3	And if you don't love me now, we'll never...
0:52.8	My rook is a phenomenal talent, but he's young.
0:57.0	Stephen, first off, I'm sure you've already heard from your sound team and your VFX team, and I think Claudia as well.
1:06.0	But big congratulations to everyone.
1:08.0	It looks like F1 had a pretty good day with the Oscar shortlist. Did you see that?
1:13.2	Yes, this is fantastic. Yeah, really, really excited for all of them, definitely.
1:18.2	Yeah, and it's obviously well-deserved. There's not an editing shortlist. There hasn't been since
1:24.1	1979, but so you were not on top gun, but I believe you've,
1:31.2	you've worked with Joe Kaczynski before on, um, it's slipping my mind, the Chris Hemsworth
1:36.3	movie.
1:37.1	Spiderhead.
1:37.7	Actually, yeah, and actually I was on Top Gun.
1:40.1	I, uh, I jumped on to help them out.
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