The 'Borat' Rule: Nothing Allowed to Get in the Way of a Laugh, Says Rerecording Mixer Courtesy of Amazon Studios; Courtesy of Lucasfilm Left: Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova in 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.' Right: Lora Hirschberg. Lora Hirschberg — the only woman to win an Oscar for sound mixing — took her cues from Sacha Baron Cohen in deciding what audiences should hear. Working with Sacha Baron Cohen on his 2006 mockumentary Borat — which followed the actor as a fictitious Kazakhstani journalist navigating his way through the U.S. — and the recent sequel Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, rerecording mixer Lora Hirschberg applied her documentary skills to make the films feel real, picking up comedy techniques from the filmmaker along the way. "Something that I learned from Sacha from the first film was he didn't like anything that interrupted a laugh," she explains. "Any little sound you hear that interrupts you from laughing — if it's a footstep or a piece of dialogue that makes you stop [laughing] so that you can try to listen so as not to miss anything — that's a no-go. We go through and clean up everything that is going to interrupt you from laughing."