Successful an Oscar can open many doorways. Within the case of Johnnie Burn, who received the Academy Award for finest sound on Sunday night time for his work on Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Curiosity” alongside Tarn Willers, it was a studio’s door the very subsequent day.

The morning after the ceremony, the British sound designer — who additionally labored on the sound for Yorgos Lanthimos’ a number of Oscar-winning “Poor Issues” — turned up on the Fox Studio Lot in Los Angeles to begin mixing his subsequent venture, an untitled new function starring Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan and the Weeknd directed by Trey Edward Shults (Burn did the sound on his final movie, “Waves”).

Nonetheless, Burn had fully forgotten to deliver his ID to get by safety.

“The Vainness Honest get together had left me a bit fuzzy headed,” he tells Selection.

Fortunately, Burn did have his freshly minted Oscar statue in his bag, which he pulled out and provided the guard. “I mentioned, ‘Does this cowl it?’ And he was like, ‘Woah, sure!’”

Because it seems, Burn’s Oscar noticed him obtain a much better welcome than a mere ID, and the safety guard acquired on his walkie-talkie, known as over a buggy and ensured he was pushed over to the blending constructing with an escort.

“Appears to be like like there are not any downsides to Oscar possession,” he says.

The very best sound Academy Award was one among two for Glazer’s acclaimed Holocaust drama “The Zone of Curiosity,” which additionally received finest worldwide function. And though Burn’s different venture, “Poor Issues,” could not have been nominated for finest sound, it did sweep up a lot of the opposite craft awards on Sunday night time, together with costume design, make-up and hairstyling and manufacturing design.