Meet the Oscar-nominated sound editor who helped 'Arrival' sound like no other alien movie

In a typical sci-fi movie about extraterrestrials, there are certain kinds of sounds you'd expect to hear: electronic bleeps and bloops, whooshing spaceships, the slithering of slimy aliens, some pew-pew-pew laser blasts. But as anyone who's seen it will tell you, "Arrival" is not a typical sci-fi movie about extraterrestrials. To help create a unique aural feel for the film -- the story of a linguistics professor (Amy Adams) who is recruited by the military to help communicate with mysterious alien visitors -- director Denis Villeneuve turned to a longtime friend and frequent collaborator, sound editor Sylvain Bellemare. The atmospheric, emotionally stirring soundscape Bellemare crafted has now earned him his first Oscar nomination. A native of Montreal, Canada, the 49-year-old Bellemare had never worked on a big science-fiction film before, nor had he been part of a Hollywood studio production.