Oscar Watch: Sound Team Makes Loud Toast and Creaking Floorboards for Phantom Thread

Rarely has breakfast sounded so annoying. In Phantom Thread, which opened wide this past Friday, Daniel Day Lewis’ high-strung fashion designer Woodcock simply cannot stand it when his muse Alma (Vicky Krieps) scrapes her butter knife across a piece of toast. The deafening “crunch” contributes to one of the most memorable scenes in Paul Thomas ...