She has been nominated twice for an Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing (for First Man in 2019 and Baby Driver in 2018).
Mary is the second female production mixer to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Ellis studied at the University of Alabama with a degree in Film and Television.
[3] She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie for her work Warm Springs in 2005.
Ellis was named to the Cinema Audio Society Board of Directors in 2019.