Academy Award for Sound
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The Academy Award for Sound Mixing is an Academy Award
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

 that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing
Audio mixing (film and television)
Audio mixing for film and television is a process during the post-production stage of a moving image program by which a multitude of recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels...

 or recording, and is generally awarded to the production sound mixer
Production sound mixer
A production sound mixer, location sound recordist, location sound engineer or simply sound mixer is the member of a film crew or television crew responsible for recording all sound recording on set during the filmmaking or television production using professional audio equipment, for later...

s and re-recording mixer
Re-recording mixer
A re-recording mixer, formerly known as a dubbing mixer, is a person who is part of a post-production sound team and works specifically with dialog, music and sound effects to create the final soundtrack for a production...

s of the winning film. Compare this award to the Academy Award for Sound Editing
Academy Award for Sound Editing
The Academy Award of Merit for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound editing or sound design...

. In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

For the first year of this category (the 3rd Academy Awards
3rd Academy Awards
The 3rd Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1929/1930, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.All Quiet on the Western Front became the first film to take home both Best Picture and Best Director, something that would become common in later years.The Love...

) only the names of the films and companies were listed. When the awards were announced, only the names linked to the winning film were announced too.

1930s

  • 1929-1930: The Big House - Douglas Shearer
    Douglas Shearer
    Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

     Studio
    • The Case of Sergeant Grischa
      The Case of Sergeant Grischa (film)
      The Case of Sergeant Grischa is a 1930 American drama film directed by Herbert Brenon, based on the German novel of the same name. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording .-Cast:...

       - John Tribby
      John Tribby
      John Tribby was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film The Case of Sergeant Grischa.-Selected filmography:...

    • The Love Parade
      The Love Parade
      The Love Parade is a 1929 musical comedy film about the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania and her consort, Count Alfred Renard...

       - Franklin Hansen
      Franklin Hansen
      Franklin Hansen was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film A Farewell to Arms and was nominated for four more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    • Raffles
      Raffles (1930 film)
      Raffles is a film starring Ronald Colman as the popular title character, a gentleman who is also secretly a notorious jewel thief. Kay Francis plays the woman who Raffles falls in love with. It is based on the 1906 play Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E. W...

       - Oscar Lagerstrom
      Oscar Lagerstrom
      Oscar Lagerstrom was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Raffles.-External links:...

    • The Song of the Flame
      Song of the Flame (film)
      Song of the Flame is a musical operetta film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was the first color film to feature a widescreen sequence using a process called Vitascope, the trademark name for Warner Bros.' widescreen process...

       - George Groves

  • 1930-1931: Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department
    • MGM Studio Sound Department
    • RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
    • Samuel Goldwyn
      Samuel Goldwyn
      Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios.-Biography:...

      -United Artists
      United Artists
      United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....

       Studio Sound Department

  • 1931-1932: Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department
    • MGM Studio Sound Department
    • RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
    • Walt Disney
      The Walt Disney Company
      The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

    • Warner Bros.
      Warner Bros.
      Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

      First National Studio Sound Department

  • 1932-1933: A Farewell to Arms
    A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)
    A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Oliver H.P...

     - Franklin Hansen
    Franklin Hansen
    Franklin Hansen was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film A Farewell to Arms and was nominated for four more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    , Paramount
    Paramount Pictures
    Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

     Studio
    • 42nd Street
      42nd Street (film)
      -Cast:*Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, director*Bebe Daniels as Dorothy Brock, star*George Brent as Pat Denning, Dorothy's old vaudeville partner*Ruby Keeler as Peggy Sawyer, the newcomer*Guy Kibbee as Abner Dillon, the show's backer...

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • Gold Diggers of 1933
      Gold Diggers of 1933
      Gold Diggers of 1933 is a pre-code Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin , staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley...

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
      I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
      I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a Pre-Code crime/drama film starring Paul Muni as a wrongfully convicted convict on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago. The film was written by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes from Robert Elliott Burns's autobiography, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain...

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...


  • 1934: One Night of Love
    One Night of Love
    One Night of Love is a 1934 romantic musical film set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. It was written by James Gow, S.K. Lauren and Edmund H. North, from the story, Don't Fall in Love, by Charles Beahan and Dorothy Speare...

     -
    John Livadary, Columbia
    Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

     Studio
    • The Affairs of Cellini
      The Affairs of Cellini
      The Affairs of Cellini is a comedy film set in Florence over 400 years ago. This 1934 movie was adapted by Bess Meredyth from the play The Firebrand of Florence by Edwin Justus Mayer. It was directed by Gregory La Cava.-Plot:...

       - Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...

    • Cleopatra
      Cleopatra (1934 film)
      Cleopatra is a 1934 epic film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by Paramount Pictures, which retells the story of Cleopatra VII of Egypt....

       - Franklin B. Hansen
    • Flirtation Walk
      Flirtation Walk
      Flirtation Walk is a 1934 romantic musical film written by Delmer Daves and Lou Edelman, and directed by Frank Borzage. It focuses on a soldier who falls in love with a general's daughter during the general's brief stop in Hawaii, but she leaves with her father for the Philippines before their...

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • The Gay Divorcee
      The Gay Divorcee
      The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American film based on the musical play Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor, Kenneth S. Webb, Samuel Hoffenstein, with screenplay by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman, from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners...

       - Carl Dreher
      Carl Dreher
      Carl Dreher was a sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording for the films The Gay Divorcee and I Dream Too Much.-External links:...

    • Imitation of Life
      Imitation of Life (1934 film)
      Imitation of Life is a 1934 American drama film directed by John M. Stahl. The screenplay by William Hurlbut, based on Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel of the same name, was augmented by eight additional uncredited writers, including Preston Sturges and Finley Peter Dunne...

       - Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Imitation of Life * The French Connection * The Poseidon Adventure...

    • Viva Villa!
      Viva Villa!
      Viva Villa! is a 1934 American film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The picture was directed by Jack Conway. There was special, uncredited help with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin...

       - Douglas Shearer
      Douglas Shearer
      Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    • White Parade
      The White Parade
      The White Parade is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Rian James, Jesse Lasky Jr., Sonya Levien and Ernest Pascal, from the novel by Rian James. The film was directed by Irving Cummings....

       - Edmund H. Hansen
      Edmund H. Hansen
      Edmund H. Hansen was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards; one for Best Sound Recording and the other Best Visual Effects...


  • 1935: Naughty Marietta - Douglas Shearer
    Douglas Shearer
    Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

     Studio
    • 1,000 Dollars a Minute
      1,000 Dollars a Minute
      1,000 Dollars a Minute is a 1935 comedy film directed by Aubrey Scotto. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording.-Cast:* Roger Pryor as Wally Jones* Leila Hyams as Dorothy Summers* Edward Brophy as Benny Dolan...

       - Republic Studio Sound Department
    • Bride of Frankenstein
      Bride of Frankenstein
      Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American horror film, the first sequel to Frankenstein...

       - Gilbert Kurland
      Gilbert Kurland
      Gilbert Kurland was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Bride of Frankenstein.-External links:...

    • Captain Blood - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • The Dark Angel - Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...

    • I Dream Too Much
      I Dream Too Much
      I Dream Too Much is a 1935 romantic comedy film directed by John Cromwell. It stars Henry Fonda, Lily Pons, and Lucille Ball in one of her earliest roles. It has been described as a "somewhat wispy operetta." Songs are by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields...

       - Carl Dreher
      Carl Dreher
      Carl Dreher was a sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording for the films The Gay Divorcee and I Dream Too Much.-External links:...

    • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
      The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
      The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 American adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious...

       - Franklin B. Hansen
    • Love Me Forever
      Love Me Forever
      Love Me Forever is a 1935 American drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording .-Cast:* Grace Moore as Margaret Howard* Leo Carrillo as Steve Corelli...

       - John Livadary
    • Thanks a Million
      Thanks A Million
      Thanks a Million is a 1935 musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox and directed by Roy Del Ruth. It stars Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak and Fred Allen, and features Patsy Kelly, David Rubinoff and Paul Whiteman and his band with singer/pianist Ramona. The script by Nunnally Johnson was...

       - E. H. Hansen

  • 1936: San Francisco
    San Francisco (film)
    San Francisco is a 1936 musical-drama directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy. The then very popular singing of MacDonald helped make this film...

     -
    Douglas Shearer
    Douglas Shearer
    Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

     Studio
    • Banjo on My Knee
      Banjo on My Knee (film)
      Banjo on My Knee is a 1936 American comedy film directed by John Cromwell. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording Banjo on My Knee is a 1936 American comedy film directed by John Cromwell. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound...

       - E. H. Hansen
    • The Charge of the Light Brigade
      The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)
      The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 historical film made by Warner Bros. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Samuel Bischoff, with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer, from a screenplay by Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh, from a story by Michael Jacoby based on the poem The...

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • Dodsworth
      Dodsworth (film)
      Dodsworth is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis...

       - Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...

    • General Spanky
      General Spanky
      General Spanky is a 1936 American comedy film produced by Hal Roach. A spin-off of Roach's popular Our Gang short subjects, the film stars George "Spanky" McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Rosina Lawrence, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer...

       - Elmer A. Raguse
      Elmer A. Raguse
      Elmer A. Raguse was an American sound engineer mostly associated with the Hal Roach Studios. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound...

    • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
      Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
      Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role...

       - John Livadary
    • The Texas Rangers
      The Texas Rangers (1936 film)
      The Texas Rangers is a 1936 action and Western film directed by King Vidor that starred Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie. It was nominated for Best Sound at the 1936 Oscars....

       - Franklin B. Hansen
    • That Girl from Paris
      That Girl from Paris
      That Girl from Paris is a 1936 musical comedy film directed by Leigh Jason. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording .-Cast:* Lily Pons as Nicole 'Nikki' Martin* Jack Oakie as Whammo Lonsdale...

       - John Aalberg
    • Three Smart Girls
      Three Smart Girls
      Three Smart Girls is a 1936 musical comedy film. The Craig sisters, played by Barbara Read, Nan Grey and Deanna Durbin in her first feature film role, travel to New York City to prevent their father from remarrying....

       - Homer G. Tasker
      Homer G. Tasker
      Homer G. Tasker was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Three Smart Girls * One Hundred Men and a Girl...


  • 1937: The Hurricane
    The Hurricane (1937 film)
    The Hurricane is a 1937 film set in the South Seas, directed by John Ford and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, about a Polynesian who is unjustly imprisoned. The climax features a special effects hurricane. It stars Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall, with Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond...

     - Thomas Moulton, United Artists
    United Artists
    United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....

     Studio
    • The Girl Said No - A. E. Kaye
      A. E. Kaye
      A. E. Kaye was a sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film The Girl Said No.-External links:...

    • Hitting a New High
      Hitting a New High
      Hitting a New High is a 1937 comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh. It stars Lily Pons and Jack Oakie. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1938 in the category Best Sound .- Cast :* Lily Pons as Suzette, aka Oogahunga, the Bird-Girl...

       - John Aalberg
    • In Old Chicago
      In Old Chicago
      In Old Chicago is a 1937 American drama film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys." The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and stars Alice Brady as Mrs. O'Leary, the owner of...

       - E. H. Hansen
    • The Life of Emile Zola
      The Life of Emile Zola
      The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 American biographical film about French author Émile Zola. Set in the mid through late 19th century, it depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul Cézanne, and his rise to fame through his prolific writing, with particular focus on his involvement in the Dreyfus...

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • Lost Horizon - John Livadary
    • Maytime - Douglas Shearer
      Douglas Shearer
      Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    • One Hundred Men and a Girl
      One Hundred Men and a Girl
      One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 musical comedy film, written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kräly and directed by Henry Koster...

       - Homer G. Tasker
      Homer G. Tasker
      Homer G. Tasker was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Three Smart Girls * One Hundred Men and a Girl...

    • Topper
      Topper (film)
      Topper is a 1937 American comedy film which tells the story of a stuffy, stuck-in-his-ways man who is haunted by the ghosts of a fun-loving married couple. It was adapted by Eric Hatch, Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran from the novel by Thorne Smith. The film was directed by Norman Z. McLeod, produced by...

       - Elmer A. Raguse
      Elmer A. Raguse
      Elmer A. Raguse was an American sound engineer mostly associated with the Hal Roach Studios. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound...

    • Wells Fargo
      Wells Fargo (film)
      Wells Fargo is a 1937 American Western film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Joel McCrea. It was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound Wells Fargo is a 1937 American Western film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Joel McCrea. It was nominated for an Academy Award in the...

       - Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for 14 Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound* Wells Fargo...


  • 1938: The Cowboy and the Lady
    The Cowboy and the Lady (1938 film)
    The Cowboy and the Lady is a 1938 American western romantic comedy film directed by H.C. Potter, and starring Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon. The film was written by S.N. Behrman and Sonya Levien, based on a story by Frank R. Adams and veteran film director Leo McCarey...

     -
    Thomas Moulton, United Artists
    United Artists
    United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....

     Studio
    • Army Girl
      Army Girl
      Army Girl is a 1938 American comedy film directed by George Nichols Jr.-Cast:* Madge Evans as Julie Armstrong* Preston Foster as Capt. Dike Conger* James Gleason as Sgt. 'Three Star' Hennessy...

       - Charles L. Lootens
      Charles L. Lootens
      Charles L. Lootens was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Army Girl * Man of Conquest...

    • Four Daughters
      Four Daughters
      Four Daughters is a 1938 musical drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives...

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • If I Were King
      If I Were King
      If I Were King is a 1938 American biographical historical drama film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee...

       - Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for 14 Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound* Wells Fargo...

    • Merrily We Live
      Merrily We Live
      Merrily We Live is a 1938 comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod. It stars Constance Bennett and Brian Aherne and features Ann Dvorak, Bonita Granville, Billie Burke, Tom Brown, Alan Mowbray, Clarence Kolb and Patsy Kelly. The film was produced by Hal Roach for Hal Roach Studios, and was...

       - Elmer A. Raguse
      Elmer A. Raguse
      Elmer A. Raguse was an American sound engineer mostly associated with the Hal Roach Studios. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound...

    • Suez
      Suez (film)
      Suez is a 1938 film account of the building of the Suez Canal by Ferdinand de Lesseps, played by Tyrone Power. It was so highly fictionalized that de Lesseps' descendants sued for libel....

       - Edmund H. Hansen
      Edmund H. Hansen
      Edmund H. Hansen was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards; one for Best Sound Recording and the other Best Visual Effects...

    • Sweethearts
      Sweethearts (film)
      Sweethearts is a 1938 musical romance directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The screenplay, by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, uses the “play within a play” device: a contemporary Broadway production of the 1913 Victor Herbert operetta is the setting for...

       - Douglas Shearer
      Douglas Shearer
      Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    • That Certain Age
      That Certain Age
      That Certain Age is a 1938 Universal musical film directed by Edward Ludwig and written by Billy Wilder.-Plot:Alice Fullerton is the 15-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Bill. She becomes involved with a group of boy scouts, who is led by Ken Warren. Ken wants to put on a show to raise money...

       - Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He was also nominated three times in the category Best Visual Effects...

    • Vivacious Lady
      Vivacious Lady
      Vivacious Lady is a 1938 American black-and-white romantic comedy film starring Ginger Rogers and James Stewart, produced and directed by George Stevens, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The screenplay was written by P.J. Wolfson and Ernest Pagano and adapted from a short story by I. A. R. Wylie...

       - John Aalberg
    • You Can't Take It with You
      You Can't Take It with You (film)
      You Can't Take It With You Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The cast includes James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore and Edward Arnold....

       - John Livadary

  • 1939: When Tomorrow Comes
    When Tomorrow Comes (film)
    When Tomorrow Comes is a 1939 romantic drama film starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. A waitress falls in love with a man who later turns out to be a married concert pianist. Bernard B...

     - Bernard B. Brown
    Bernard B. Brown
    Bernard B. Brown was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He was also nominated three times in the category Best Visual Effects...

    , Universal
    Universal Pictures
    -1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...

     Studio
    • Balalaika
      Balalaika (film)
      Balalaika is a 1939 American musical romance film based on the 1936 London stage musical of the same name. Produced by Lawrence Weingarten and directed by Reinhold Schunzel, it starred Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey....

       - Douglas Shearer
      Douglas Shearer
      Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    • Gone with the Wind
      Gone with the Wind (film)
      Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American historical epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard...

       - Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...

    • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
      Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)
      Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1939 British film based on the novel of the same name by James Hilton. It was directed by Sam Wood, and starred Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, and Paul Henreid. The screenplay was adapted from the novel by R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West and Eric...

       - A. W. Watkins
      A. W. Watkins
      A. W. Watkins was a British sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Goodbye, Mr. Chips * Knights of the Round Table...

    • The Great Victor Herbert
      The Great Victor Herbert
      -Cast:* Allan Jones as John Ramsey* Mary Martin as Louise Hall* Walter Connolly as Victor Herbert* Lee Bowman as Dr. Richard Moore* Susanna Foster as Peggy* Judith Barrett as Marie Clark* Jerome Cowan as Barney Harris* John Garrick as Warner Bryant...

       - Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for 14 Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound* Wells Fargo...

    • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
      The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film)
      The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1939 American monochrome film starring Charles Laughton as Quasimodo and Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda. It was directed by William Dieterle and produced by Pandro S. Berman...

       - John Aalberg
    • Man of Conquest
      Man of Conquest
      Man of Conquest is a 1939 Western film directed by George Nichols Jr.. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Score, Best Sound and Best Art Direction .-Cast:* Richard Dix - Sam Houston...

       - Charles L. Lootens
      Charles L. Lootens
      Charles L. Lootens was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Army Girl * Man of Conquest...

    • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
      Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
      Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American drama film starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra and written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story. Mr...

       - John Livadary
    • Of Mice and Men
      Of Mice and Men (1939 film)
      Of Mice and Men is a 1939 film based on the novella of the same title by American author John Steinbeck. It stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney, Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery, Jr...

       - Elmer A. Raguse
      Elmer A. Raguse
      Elmer A. Raguse was an American sound engineer mostly associated with the Hal Roach Studios. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound...

    • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
      The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
      The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a 1939 historical romantic drama film. It is based on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I, portrayed by Bette Davis, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, played by Errol Flynn...

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • The Rains Came
      The Rains Came
      The Rains Came is the title of a novel by Louis Bromfield, published in 1937, as well as the 1939 20th Century Fox film version which followed it...

       - E. H. Hansen

1940s

  • 1940: Strike Up the Band
    Strike Up the Band (film)
    Strike Up the Band is a 1940 American black and white musical film. It is directed by Busby Berkeley and stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.A very famous, memorable quote from the film is "Take that boy on the street...

     -
    Douglas Shearer
    Douglas Shearer
    Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

     Studio
    • Behind the News
      Behind the News (film)
      Behind the News is a 1940 drama film directed by Joseph Santley. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording .-Cast:* Lloyd Nolan as Stuart Woodrow* Doris Davenport as Barbara Shaw* Frank Albertson as Jeff Flavin...

       - Charles L. Lootens
      Charles L. Lootens
      Charles L. Lootens was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Army Girl * Man of Conquest...

    • Captain Caution
      Captain Caution
      Captain Caution is a 1940 American adventure film directed by Richard Wallace. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording .-Cast:* Victor Mature as Daniel 'Dan' Marvin* Louise Platt as Corunna Dorman...

       - Elmer A. Raguse
      Elmer A. Raguse
      Elmer A. Raguse was an American sound engineer mostly associated with the Hal Roach Studios. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound...

    • The Grapes of Wrath
      The Grapes of Wrath (film)
      The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F...

       - E. H. Hansen
    • The Howards of Virginia
      The Howards of Virginia
      The Howards of Virginia is a 1940 film released by Columbia Pictures and based on the book The Tree of Liberty written by Elizabeth Page...

       - Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards, one for Best Sound Recording and the other for Best Visual Effects. He was nominated six more times in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:Won...

    • Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman
      Kitty Foyle (film)
      Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, is a 1940 film starring Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Ernest Cossart and Gladys Cooper.-Plot:...

       - John Aalberg
    • North West Mounted Police
      North West Mounted Police (film)
      North West Mounted Police is a 1940 American action adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, and Madeleine Carroll. This was DeMille's...

       - Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for 14 Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound* Wells Fargo...

    • Our Town - Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...

    • The Sea Hawk
      The Sea Hawk (1940 film)
      The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. The film's screenplay by Howard Koch and Seton I...

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • Spring Parade
      Spring Parade
      Spring Parade is a 1940 musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster. It was nominated for four Academy Awards in 1941.-Cast:* Deanna Durbin as Ilonka Tolnay* Robert Cummings as Corporal Harry Marten* Mischa Auer as Gustav...

       - Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He was also nominated three times in the category Best Visual Effects...

    • Too Many Husbands
      Too Many Husbands
      Too Many Husbands is a 1940 romantic comedy film about a woman who loses her husband in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear. The film stars Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas, and is based on the 1919 play "Home and Beauty" by W. Somerset Maugham...

       - John Livadary

  • 1941: That Hamilton Woman
    That Hamilton Woman
    That Hamilton Woman, originally titled Lady Hamilton, is a 1941 black-and-white British historical film drama which takes place during the Napoleonic wars, produced and directed by Alexander Korda for Alexander Korda Films.-Production:...

     - Jack Whitney
    Jack Whitney
    Jack Whitney was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards, one for Best Sound Recording and the other for Best Visual Effects. He was nominated six more times in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:Won...

    , General Service
    • Appointment for Love - Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He was also nominated three times in the category Best Visual Effects...

    • Ball of Fire
      Ball of Fire
      Ball of Fire is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The RKO Pictures film is about a group of professors laboring to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge...

       - Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...

    • The Chocolate Soldier
      The Chocolate Soldier (film)
      -Cast:* Nelson Eddy as Karl Lang, aka Vassily Vassilievitch* Risë Stevens as Maria Lanyi, Karl's Wife* Nigel Bruce as Bernard Fischer, Critic* Florence Bates as Madame 'Pugsie' Helene* Dorothy Raye as Magda...

       - Douglas Shearer
      Douglas Shearer
      Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    • Citizen Kane
      Citizen Kane
      Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Many critics consider it the greatest American film of all time, especially for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. Citizen Kane was Welles' first feature film...

       - John Aalberg
    • The Devil Pays Off
      The Devil Pays Off
      The Devil Pays Off is a 1941 crime film directed by John H. Auer. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording .-Cast:* J...

       - Charles Lootens
    • How Green Was My Valley
      How Green Was My Valley (film)
      How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The film, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and written by Philip Dunne. The film stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall...

       - E. H. Hansen
    • The Men in Her Life
      The Men in Her Life
      The Men in Her Life was a 1941 film adaptation of the novel Ballerina by Eleanor Smith. It was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Sound , but lost to That Hamilton Woman.-Cast:* Loretta Young as Lina Varsavina...

       - John Livadary
    • Sergeant York
      Sergeant York
      Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • Skylark - Loren Ryder
    • Topper Returns
      Topper Returns
      Topper Returns is the third and final entry in the initial series of films inspired by the novels of Thorne Smith. It followed Topper and Topper Takes a Trip...

       - Elmer Raguse

  • 1942: Yankee Doodle Dandy
    Yankee Doodle Dandy
    Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway". It stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf, and features Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney.The movie was written by...

     -
    Nathan Levinson
    Nathan Levinson
    Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    , Warner Brothers Studio
    • Arabian Nights
      Arabian Nights (1942 film)
      Arabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film starring Sabu, Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Leif Erickson and directed by John Rawlins. The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories...

       - Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He was also nominated three times in the category Best Visual Effects...

    • Bambi
      Bambi
      Bambi is a 1942 American animated film directed by David Hand , produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten...

       - Sam Slyfield
      Sam Slyfield
      Sam Slyfield was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Bambi * Saludos Amigos * The Three Caballeros...

    • Flying Tigers
      Flying Tigers (film)
      Flying Tigers is a 1942 black-and-white war film, starring John Wayne and John Carroll as mercenary fighter pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the U.S. entry into World War II....

       - Daniel Bloomberg
    • Friendly Enemies
      Friendly Enemies
      Friendly Enemies is a 1942 American drama film starring Charles Winninger, Charles Ruggles, James Craig, and Nancy Kelly. The film was directed by Allan Dwan, adapted from a play by Aaron Hoffman and Samuel Shipman...

       - Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards, one for Best Sound Recording and the other for Best Visual Effects. He was nominated six more times in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:Won...

    • The Gold Rush
      The Gold Rush
      The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. The film also stars Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite....

       - James L. Fields
      James L. Fields
      James L. Fields was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording. He worked on 400 films over a period of 45 years.-Selected filmography:* The Gold Rush...

    • Mrs. Miniver
      Mrs. Miniver (film)
      Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Teresa Wright. Based on the fictional English housewife created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, the film won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture,...

       - Douglas Shearer
      Douglas Shearer
      Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    • Once Upon a Honeymoon
      Once Upon a Honeymoon
      Once Upon a Honeymoon is a 1956 musical sponsored film about a couple wishing for a new home. It starts off with a group of angels who decide to help a couple have a honeymoon. The husband tries to write a song, while the wife daydreams about a new home, and imagines what it would be like to have...

       - Stephen Dunn
      Stephen Dunn (sound engineer)
      Stephen Dunn was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound Recording and was nominated twice more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Won* This Land Is Mine...

    • The Pride of the Yankees
      The Pride of the Yankees
      The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. The film is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died only one year before the film's release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral...

       - Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...

    • Road to Morocco
      Road to Morocco
      Road to Morocco is an 1942 American comedy film about two fast-talking guys tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess...

       - Loren Ryder
    • This Above All - E. H. Hansen
    • You Were Never Lovelier
      You Were Never Lovelier
      You Were Never Lovelier is a 1942 Hollywood musical comedy film, set in Buenos Aires. It starred Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou and Xavier Cugat, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film was directed by William A...

       - John Livadary

  • 1943: This Land Is Mine - Stephen Dunn
    Stephen Dunn (sound engineer)
    Stephen Dunn was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound Recording and was nominated twice more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Won* This Land Is Mine...

    , RKO Radio Studio
    • Hangmen Also Die! - Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards, one for Best Sound Recording and the other for Best Visual Effects. He was nominated six more times in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:Won...

    • In Old Oklahoma
      In Old Oklahoma
      In Old Oklahoma is a 1943 American film starring John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, Gabby Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau, and Dale Evans. The movie was directed by Albert S. Rogell and is usually shown under the title War of the Wildcats...

       - Daniel J. Bloomberg
    • Madame Curie
      Madame Curie (film)
      Madame Curie is a 1943 biographical film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin from a screenplay by Paul Osborn, Paul H. Rameau, and Aldous Huxley , adapted from the biography by Eve Curie....

       - Douglas Shearer
      Douglas Shearer
      Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    • The North Star
      The North Star (1943 film)
      The North Star is a 1943 war film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Lillian Hellman. The film starred Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan and Erich von Stroheim...

       - Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...

    • Phantom of the Opera
      Phantom of the Opera (1943 film)
      Phantom of the Opera is a 1943 Universal horror film starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor. The original music score was composed by Edward Ward....

       - Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He was also nominated three times in the category Best Visual Effects...

    • Riding High - Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for 14 Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound* Wells Fargo...

    • Sahara
      Sahara (1943 film)
      Sahara is a 1943 war film directed by Zoltán Korda. Humphrey Bogart stars as a U.S. tank commander in Libya during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. The movie earned three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound , Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actor by J...

       - John Livadary
    • Saludos Amigos
      Saludos Amigos
      Saludos Amigos is a 1942 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the 6th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It is the first of six package films made by the Disney studio in the 1940s...

       - C. O. Slyfield
    • So This Is Washington
      So This Is Washington
      So This Is Washington is a 1943 American film directed by Ray McCarey starring Chester Lauck. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound .- Cast :*Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards*Norris Goff as Abner...

       - James L. Fields
      James L. Fields
      James L. Fields was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording. He worked on 400 films over a period of 45 years.-Selected filmography:* The Gold Rush...

    • The Song of Bernadette
      The Song of Bernadette (film)
      The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 drama film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was directed by Henry King....

       - E. H. Hansen
    • This Is the Army
      This Is the Army
      This Is the Army is a 1943 American wartime motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, and a wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S. during World War II, directed by Sgt. Ezra Stone...

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...


  • 1944: Wilson
    Wilson (film)
    Wilson is a 1944 biographical film in Technicolor about President Woodrow Wilson. It stars Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.The movie was written by Lamar Trotti and directed by Henry King...

     -
    E. H. Hansen, 20th Century-Fox Studio
    • Brazil
      Brazil (1944 film)
      Brazil is a 1944 film directed by Joseph Santley. It is set in Brazil, and involves a composer masquerading as twins, trying to win the hand of an anti-Latin novelist.-Cast:* Tito Guízar as Miguel Soares* Virginia Bruce as Nicky Henderson...

       - Daniel J. Bloomberg
    • Casanova Brown
      Casanova Brown
      Casanova Brown is a 1944 American romantic comedy film directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Frank Morgan. Written by Thomas Mitchell , Floyd Dell, and Nunnally Johnson, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards: for Best Score , Best Sound, Recording Casanova...

       - Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...

    • Cover Girl - John Livadary
    • Double Indemnity - Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for 14 Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound* Wells Fargo...

    • His Butler's Sister
      His Butler's Sister
      His Butler's Sister is a 1943 comedy film directed by Frank Borzage. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording His Butler's Sister is a 1943 comedy film directed by Frank Borzage. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording His Butler's Sister is a 1943...

       - Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He was also nominated three times in the category Best Visual Effects...

    • Hollywood Canteen - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • It Happened Tomorrow
      It Happened Tomorrow
      It Happened Tomorrow is a 1944 fantasy film starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy and Sig Ruman. It was directed by René Clair.-Plot:...

       - Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards, one for Best Sound Recording and the other for Best Visual Effects. He was nominated six more times in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:Won...

    • Kismet
      Kismet (1944 film)
      Kismet is a 1944 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film in Technicolor starring Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Joy Page, and Florence Bates. James Craig played the young Caliph of Baghdad, and Edward Arnold was the treacherous Grand Vizier...

       - Douglas Shearer
      Douglas Shearer
      Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    • Music in Manhattan
      Music in Manhattan
      Music in Manhattan is a 1944 musical film directed by John H. Auer. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording .-Plot:...

       - Stephen Dunn
      Stephen Dunn (sound engineer)
      Stephen Dunn was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound Recording and was nominated twice more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Won* This Land Is Mine...

    • Voice in the Wind
      Voice in the Wind
      Voice in the Wind is a 1944 American film noir directed by Arthur Ripley and written by Friedrich Torberg, based on a story written by Arthur Ripley. The drama features Francis Lederer, Sigrid Gurie, J...

       - Mac Dalgleish
      Mac Dalgleish
      Mac Dalgleish was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Voice in the Wind.-External links:...


  • 1945: The Bells of St. Mary's
    The Bells of St. Mary's
    The Bells of St. Mary's is a 1945 American film which tells the story of a priest and a nun at a school who set out, despite their good-natured rivalry, to save the school from being shut down. It stars Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman...

     - Stephen Dunn
    Stephen Dunn (sound engineer)
    Stephen Dunn was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound Recording and was nominated twice more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Won* This Land Is Mine...

    , RKO Radio Studio
    • Flame of Barbary Coast
      Flame of Barbary Coast
      Flame of Barbary Coast is a 1945 western film starring John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, and Virginia Grey. The movie was scripted by Borden Chase and directed by Joseph Kane.-Plot:...

       - Daniel J. Bloomberg
    • Lady on a Train
      Lady on a Train
      Lady on a Train is a 1945 comedy film noir, starring Deanna Durbin and based on a story by Leslie Charteris.-Plot:Debutante Nikki Collins, an enthusiastic reader of detective stories, witnesses a murder in a building while passing by on a train entering New York's Grand Central Station. She goes to...

       - Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown
      Bernard B. Brown was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He was also nominated three times in the category Best Visual Effects...

    • Leave Her to Heaven
      Leave Her to Heaven
      Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American 20th Century Fox Technicolor film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, and Chill Wills...

       - Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...

    • Rhapsody in Blue
      Rhapsody in Blue (film)
      Rhapsody in Blue is a 1945 fictionalized screen biography of the American composer and musician George Gershwin . Starring Robert Alda as Gershwin, the film features a few of Gershwin's acquaintances playing themselves...

       - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • A Song to Remember
      A Song to Remember
      A Song to Remember is a 1945 Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells a fictionalised life story of Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin...

       - John P. Livadary
      John P. Livadary
      John Paul Livadary was a sound designer.He started work in 1928 at Columbia Pictures and won the Academy Award for Best Sound three times, in a career that spanned 30 years...

    • The Southerner - Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards, one for Best Sound Recording and the other for Best Visual Effects. He was nominated six more times in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:Won...

    • They Were Expendable
      They Were Expendable
      They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford and starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne. The film is based on the book by William L. White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a PT boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese...

       - Douglas Shearer
      Douglas Shearer
      Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    • The Three Caballeros
      The Three Caballeros
      The Three Caballeros is a 1944 American animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944. It was released in the United States on February 3, 1945...

       - C. O. Slyfield
    • Three Is a Family
      Three Is a Family
      Three Is a Family is a 1944 comedy film directed by Edward Ludwig. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording .-Cast:* Marjorie Reynolds as Kitty Mitchell* Charles Ruggles as Sam Whitaker...

       - W. V. Wolfe
      W. V. Wolfe
      W. V. Wolfe was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Three Is a Family.-External links:...

    • The Unseen
      The Unseen (1945 film)
      The Unseen is a 1945 film directed by Lewis Allen. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording , and is based on the novel Midnight House by Ethel Lina White. The film was Paramount's follow-up to the film The Uninvited .-Cast:...

       - Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for 14 Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound* Wells Fargo...

    • Wonder Man
      Wonder Man (film)
      Wonder Man is a 1945 film starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. It is based on a short story by Arthur Sheekman, adapted for the screen by a staff of writers led by Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and directed by H. Bruce Humberstone...

       - Gordon E. Sawyer

  • 1946: The Jolson Story
    The Jolson Story
    The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" , William Demarest as his manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson.The...

     -
    John Livadary, Columbia Studio
    Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

    • The Best Years of Our Lives
      The Best Years of Our Lives
      The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, and Harold Russell, a United States paratrooper who lost both hands in a military training accident. The film is about three United States...

       - Gordon E. Sawyer
    • It's a Wonderful Life
      It's a Wonderful Life
      It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern....

       - John Aalberg

  • 1947: The Bishop's Wife
    The Bishop's Wife
    The Bishop's Wife is a 1947 Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems. It was released by RKO. The film was adapted by Leonardo Bercovici and Robert E...

     - Gordon Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio was the name that Samuel Goldwyn used to refer to the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios lot and the offices and stages that his company, Goldwyn Pictures, rented there during the 1920s and 1930s...

    • Green Dolphin Street
      Green Dolphin Street
      Green Dolphin Street is a 1947 historic drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Plot summary:In the 1840s, two sisters fall in love with the same man...

       - Douglas Shearer
      Douglas Shearer
      Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    • T-Men
      T-Men
      T-Men is a semidocumentary style 1947 film noir shot in black-and-white. The film was directed by Anthony Mann with cinematography by noted noir cameraman John Alton....

       - Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney
      Jack Whitney was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards, one for Best Sound Recording and the other for Best Visual Effects. He was nominated six more times in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:Won...


  • 1948: The Snake Pit
    The Snake Pit
    The Snake Pit is a 1948 American drama film directed by Anatole Litvak. The film tells the story of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there, and stars Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi, and Lee Patrick.The film was...

     -
    Thomas Moulton, 20th Century-Fox Studio
    • Johnny Belinda
      Johnny Belinda (1948 film)
      Johnny Belinda is a 1948 American drama film based on the play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. The movie was adapted to the screen by Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube, and directed by Jean Negulesco....

       - Nathan O. Levinson
    • Moonrise
      Moonrise (film)
      -Plot:Dane Clark plays Danny Hawkins, the son of a murderer who was hanged for his crimes. Haunted by his father's past, the young man is tormented by the young people of the small southern town in which he lives. Hawkins' only friend is Gilly Johnson , a girl who is quickly falling in love with...

       - Daniel J. Bloomberg

  • 1949: Twelve O'Clock High
    Twelve O'Clock High
    Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett, Henry King ...

     - Thomas Moulton, 20th Century-Fox Studio
    • Once More, My Darling
      Once More, My Darling
      Once More, My Darling is a 1949 American comedy film directed by and starring Robert Montgomery. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording .-Cast:* Robert Montgomery as Collier 'Collie' Laing...

       - Leslie I. Carey
      Leslie I. Carey
      Sound recordist Leslie I. Carey first hit Hollywood in 1938, where he embarked on the first of over 300 films...

    • Sands of Iwo Jima
      Sands of Iwo Jima
      Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan...

       - Daniel J. Bloomberg

1950s

  • 1950: All About Eve
    All About Eve
    All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve", by Mary Orr.The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star...

     -
    Thomas Moulton, 20th Century-Fox Studio
    • Cinderella
      Cinderella (1950 film)
      Cinderella is a 1950 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the fairy tale "Cendrillon" by Charles Perrault. Twelfth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film had a limited release on February 15, 1950 by RKO Radio Pictures. Directing credits go to Clyde Geronimi,...

       - C. O. Slyfield
    • Louisa
      Louisa (film)
      Louisa is a 1950 comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Ronald Reagan and Spring Byington in the title role. This film was Piper Larie's film debut. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Louisa is a 1950 comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Ronald Reagan...

       - Leslie I. Carey
      Leslie I. Carey
      Sound recordist Leslie I. Carey first hit Hollywood in 1938, where he embarked on the first of over 300 films...

    • Our Very Own
      Our Very Own (1950 film)
      Our Very Own is a 1950 American drama film directed by David Miller. The screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert focuses on a teenaged girl who learns she was adopted as an infant.-Plot:...

       - Gordon Sawyer
    • Trio - Cyril Crowhurst
      Cyril Crowhurst
      Cyril Crowhurst was a sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Trio.-External links:...


  • 1951: The Great Caruso
    The Great Caruso
    The Great Caruso is a 1951 biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L. Lasky as associate producer from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig. The original music was by Johnny Green and the cinematography by...

     - Douglas Shearer
    Douglas Shearer
    Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.-Early life and career:...

    , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

     Studio
    • Bright Victory
      Bright Victory
      Bright Victory is a 1951 film, adapted by Robert Buckner from Baynard Kendrick's novel Lights Out. It was directed by Mark Robson, and it stars Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julia Adams, James Edwards, Will Geer, Nana Bryant, Jim Backus, and Rock Hudson....

       - Leslie I. Carey
      Leslie I. Carey
      Sound recordist Leslie I. Carey first hit Hollywood in 1938, where he embarked on the first of over 300 films...

    • I Want You
      I Want You (1951 film)
      I Want You is a 1951 film directed by Mark Robson taking place in America during the Korean War. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound .-Plot:...

       - Gordon E. Sawyer
    • A Streetcar Named Desire - Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson
      Nathan Levinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and was nominated for 16 more in the same category...

    • Two Tickets to Broadway
      Two Tickets to Broadway
      Two Tickets to Broadway is a 1951 musical film directed by James V. Kern. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording .-Cast:* Tony Martin as Dan Carter* Janet Leigh as Nancy Peterson* Gloria DeHaven as Hannah Holbrook...

       - John Aalberg

  • 1952: The Sound Barrier - London Films
    London Films
    London Films is a British film production company founded in 1932 by Alexander Korda originally based at London Film Studios in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England. The company's productions included The Private Life of Henry VIII , Things to Come , Rembrandt , The Four Feathers , The Thief of Bagdad ...

    Sound Department
    • Hans Christian Andersen
      Hans Christian Andersen (film)
      Hans Christian Andersen is a 1952 Hollywood musical film directed by Charles Vidor, with words and music by Frank Loesser. The story was by Myles Connolly, its screenplay was by Moss Hart and Ben Hecht , and was produced by The Samuel Goldwyn Company...

       - Gordon E. Sawyer
    • The Card - Pinewood Studios
      Pinewood Studios
      Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, approximately west of central London. The studios have played host to many productions over the years from huge blockbuster films to television shows to commercials to pop promos.The purchase of Shepperton...

       Sound Department
    • The Quiet Man
      The Quiet Man
      The Quiet Man is a 1952 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film. It was directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald. It was based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story by Maurice Walsh...

       - Daniel J. Bloomberg
    • With a Song in My Heart
      With a Song in My Heart (film)
      With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal....

       - Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton
      Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category...


  • 1953: From Here to Eternity
    From Here to Eternity
    From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the troubles of soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and Ernest Borgnine stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the...

     - John Livadary, Columbia
    Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

     Studio
    • Calamity Jane - William A. Mueller
      William A. Mueller
      William A. Mueller was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Calamity Jane * Mister Roberts -External links:...

    • Knights of the Round Table
      Knights of the Round Table (film)
      Knights of the Round Table is a 1953 Technicolor Cinemascope historical film made by MGM. Directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman, it was the first film in Cinemascope made by that studio...

       - A. W. Watkins
      A. W. Watkins
      A. W. Watkins was a British sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Goodbye, Mr. Chips * Knights of the Round Table...

    • The Mississippi Gambler
      The Mississippi Gambler (1953 film)
      The Mississippi Gambler is a 1953 adventure film directed by Rudolph Maté. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording The Mississippi Gambler is a 1953 adventure film directed by Rudolph Maté. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording The Mississippi...

       - Leslie I. Carey
      Leslie I. Carey
      Sound recordist Leslie I. Carey first hit Hollywood in 1938, where he embarked on the first of over 300 films...

    • The War of the Worlds
      The War of the Worlds (1953 film)
      The War of the Worlds is a 1953 science fiction film starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. It was the first on-screen loose adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic novel of the same name...

       - Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for 14 Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound* Wells Fargo...


  • 1954: The Glenn Miller Story
    The Glenn Miller Story
    The Glenn Miller Story is a 1954 American film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their first non-western collaboration.-Plot:...

     -
    Leslie I. Carey
    Leslie I. Carey
    Sound recordist Leslie I. Carey first hit Hollywood in 1938, where he embarked on the first of over 300 films...

    , Universal-International Studio
    • Brigadoon
      Brigadoon (film)
      Brigadoon is a 1954 MGM musical feature film made in CinemaScope and Ansco Color based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse...

       - Wesley C. Miller
      Wesley C. Miller
      Wesley C. Miller was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, three in the category Sound Recording and one for Best Effects, Special Effects.-Selected filmography:* Brigadoon...

    • The Caine Mutiny
      The Caine Mutiny (film)
      The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American drama film set during World War II, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer. It stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, and is based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny. The film...

       - John P. Livadary
      John P. Livadary
      John Paul Livadary was a sound designer.He started work in 1928 at Columbia Pictures and won the Academy Award for Best Sound three times, in a career that spanned 30 years...

    • Rear Window
      Rear Window
      Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder"...

       - Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for 14 Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound* Wells Fargo...

    • Susan Slept Here
      Susan Slept Here
      Susan Slept Here is a 1954 romantic comedy film starring Dick Powell and Debbie Reynolds. It was based on the play of the same name by Steve Fisher and Alex Gottlieb...

       - John Aalberg

  • 1955: Oklahoma! - Fred Hynes
    Fred Hynes
    Fred Hynes was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for two more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    , Todd-AO
    Todd-AO
    Todd-AO is a post-production company founded in 1953, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries. The company operates three facilities in the Los Angeles area.-History:...

     Sound Department
    • Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
      Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film)
      Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 American drama-romance film. Set in 1949-50 Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter , who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from China , only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong...

       - Carlton W. Faulkner
      Carlton W. Faulkner
      Carlton W. Faulkner was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film The King and I. He was also nominated for four more Academy Awards, three in the same category and the fourth for Best Effects, Special Effects.-Selected filmography:Faulkner won...

    • Love Me or Leave Me
      Love Me or Leave Me (film)
      Love Me or Leave Me is a 1955 biographical film which tells the life story of Ruth Etting, a singer who rose from dancer to movie star. It stars Doris Day as Etting, James Cagney as gangster Martin "Moe the Gimp" Snyder, her first husband and manager, and Cameron Mitchell as pianist/ arranger Myrl...

       - Wesley C. Miller
      Wesley C. Miller
      Wesley C. Miller was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, three in the category Sound Recording and one for Best Effects, Special Effects.-Selected filmography:* Brigadoon...

    • Mister Roberts - William A. Mueller
      William A. Mueller
      William A. Mueller was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Calamity Jane * Mister Roberts -External links:...

    • Not as a Stranger
      Not as a Stranger
      Not as a Stranger was a 1954 novel written by Morton Thompson. The romantic melodrama became widely popular, topping that year's list of bestselling novels in the United States. The novel was adapted into a 1955 film of the same name by United Artists Pictures...

       - Watson Jones
      Watson Jones
      Watson Jones was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Not as a Stranger.-External links:...

      , RCA
      RCA
      RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...

       Sound Department

  • 1956: The King and I
    The King and I (1956 film)
    The King and I is a 1956 musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical The King and I, based in turn on the book Anna and the King...

     -
    Carlton W. Faulkner
    Carlton W. Faulkner
    Carlton W. Faulkner was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film The King and I. He was also nominated for four more Academy Awards, three in the same category and the fourth for Best Effects, Special Effects.-Selected filmography:Faulkner won...

    , 20th Century-Fox Studio
    • The Brave One
      The Brave One (1956 film)
      The Brave One is a 1956 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper and starring Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., and Elsa Cárdenas. It tells the story of a young Mexican boy who tries to save his beloved bull Gitano from the bullfighting arena....

       - Buddy Myers
      Buddy Myers
      Buddy Myers was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film The Brave One. He worked on over 100 films between 1929 and 1967.-External links:...

    • The Eddy Duchin Story
      The Eddy Duchin Story
      The Eddy Duchin Story is a 1956 biopic of band leader and pianist Eddy Duchin. It was directed by George Sidney-helmed film, written by Samuel A. Taylor, and starred Tyrone Power and Kim Novak. The musical soundtrack recording, imitating Duchin's style, was performed by pianist Carmen Cavallaro....

       - John P. Livadary
      John P. Livadary
      John Paul Livadary was a sound designer.He started work in 1928 at Columbia Pictures and won the Academy Award for Best Sound three times, in a career that spanned 30 years...

    • Friendly Persuasion
      Friendly Persuasion (film)
      Friendly Persuasion is a 1956 Civil War film starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton and Phyllis Love. The screenplay was adapted by Michael Wilson from the 1945 novel The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West, and was directed by William Wyler...

       - Gordon R. Glennan
      Gordon R. Glennan
      Gordon R. Glennan was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Friendly Persuasion.-External links:...

      , and Gordon E. Sawyer
    • The Ten Commandments
      The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
      The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic film that dramatized the biblical story of the Exodus, in which the Hebrew-born Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince, becomes the deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. The film, released by Paramount Pictures in VistaVision on October 5, 1956, was directed by...

       - Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder
      Loren L. Ryder was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for 14 Academy Awards in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.-Selected filmography:Best Sound* Wells Fargo...


  • 1957: Sayonara
    Sayonara
    Sayonara is a 1957 color American film starring Marlon Brando. It tells the story of an American Air Force flier who was an "ace" fighter pilot during the Korean War....

     - George Groves, Warner Brothers Studio
    • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - George Dutton
      George Dutton
      George Dutton was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for five Academy Awards; three in the category Best Effects and two for Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:Best Effects* So Proudly We Hail!...

    • Les Girls
      Les Girls
      Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 musical comedy film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by George Cukor, produced by Sol C...

       - Wesley C. Miller
      Wesley C. Miller
      Wesley C. Miller was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards, three in the category Sound Recording and one for Best Effects, Special Effects.-Selected filmography:* Brigadoon...

    • Pal Joey
      Pal Joey (film)
      Pal Joey is a 1957 film, loosely adapted from the musical play of the same name, and starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak. Jo Ann Greer sang for Hayworth, as she had done previously in Affair in Trinidad and Miss Sadie Thompson. Kim Novak's singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin...

       - John P. Livadary
      John P. Livadary
      John Paul Livadary was a sound designer.He started work in 1928 at Columbia Pictures and won the Academy Award for Best Sound three times, in a career that spanned 30 years...

    • Witness for the Prosecution - Gordon E. Sawyer

  • 1958: South Pacific
    South Pacific (film)
    South Pacific is a 1958 musical romance film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, and based on James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific...

     -
    Fred Hynes
    Fred Hynes
    Fred Hynes was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for two more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    , Todd-AO
    Todd-AO
    Todd-AO is a post-production company founded in 1953, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries. The company operates three facilities in the Los Angeles area.-History:...

     Sound Department
    • I Want to Live!
      I Want to Live!
      I Want to Live! is a 1958 film noir produced by Walter Wanger and directed by Robert Wise which tells the heavily fictionalized story of a woman, Barbara Graham, convicted of murder and facing execution. It stars Susan Hayward as Graham, and also features Simon Oakland, Stafford Repp, and Theodore...

       - Gordon E. Sawyer
    • A Time to Love and a Time to Die
      A Time to Love and a Time to Die
      A Time to Love and a Time to Die is a 1958 CinemaScope drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring John Gavin. It is based on the book by the German author, Erich Maria Remarque, set on the Eastern Front , and in Nazi Germany.-Cast:...

       - Leslie I. Carey
      Leslie I. Carey
      Sound recordist Leslie I. Carey first hit Hollywood in 1938, where he embarked on the first of over 300 films...

    • Vertigo
      Vertigo (film)
      Vertigo is a 1958 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A...

       - George Dutton
      George Dutton
      George Dutton was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for five Academy Awards; three in the category Best Effects and two for Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:Best Effects* So Proudly We Hail!...

    • The Young Lions - Carlton W. Faulkner
      Carlton W. Faulkner
      Carlton W. Faulkner was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film The King and I. He was also nominated for four more Academy Awards, three in the same category and the fourth for Best Effects, Special Effects.-Selected filmography:Faulkner won...


  • 1959: Ben-Hur
    Ben-Hur (1959 film)
    Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic film directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston in the title role, the third film adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay was written by Karl Tunberg, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Fry. The score was composed by...

     - Franklin Milton
    Franklin Milton
    Franklin Milton was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Sound Recording and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

     Studio
    • Journey to the Center of the Earth
      Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)
      Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 1959 adventure film adapted by Charles Brackett from the novel by Jules Verne. It stars Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Peter Ronson, Diane Baker, Thayer David and Alan Napier...

       - Carlton W. Faulkner
      Carlton W. Faulkner
      Carlton W. Faulkner was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film The King and I. He was also nominated for four more Academy Awards, three in the same category and the fourth for Best Effects, Special Effects.-Selected filmography:Faulkner won...

    • Libel
      Libel (film)
      Libel is a 1959 British drama film. It stars Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Massie, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Robert Morley. The film's screenplay was written by Anatole de Grunwald and Karl Tunberg from a 1935 play of the same name by Edward Wooll, and it was directed by Anthony Asquith.The...

       - A. W. Watkins
      A. W. Watkins
      A. W. Watkins was a British sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Goodbye, Mr. Chips * Knights of the Round Table...

    • The Nun's Story
      The Nun's Story (film)
      The Nun's Story is a 1959 Warner Brothers film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Audrey Hepburn. Based upon the 1956 novel of the same title by Kathryn Hulme, the story tells of the life of Sister Luke , a young Belgian woman who decides to enter a convent and make the many sacrifices...

       - George Groves
    • Porgy and Bess - Gordon E. Sawyer, and Fred Hynes
      Fred Hynes
      Fred Hynes was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for two more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...


1960s

  • 1960: The Alamo
    The Alamo (1960 film)
    The Alamo is a 1960 American historical epic released by United Artists. The film was directed by John Wayne, who also starred as Davy Crockett. The cast also includes Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B...

     -
    Fred Hynes
    Fred Hynes
    Fred Hynes was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for two more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    , Todd-AO
    Todd-AO
    Todd-AO is a post-production company founded in 1953, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries. The company operates three facilities in the Los Angeles area.-History:...

     Sound Department and
    Gordon Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio was the name that Samuel Goldwyn used to refer to the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios lot and the offices and stages that his company, Goldwyn Pictures, rented there during the 1920s and 1930s...

    • The Apartment
      The Apartment
      The Apartment is a 1960 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. It was Wilder's follow-up to the enormously popular Some Like It Hot and, like its predecessor, was a commercial and critical hit, grossing $25...

       - Gordon E. Sawyer
    • Cimarron
      Cimarron (1960 film)
      Cimarron is a 1960 western film based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron, featuring Glenn Ford and Maria Schell. It was directed by Anthony Mann, known for his westerns and film noirs....

       - Franklin Milton
      Franklin Milton
      Franklin Milton was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Sound Recording and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    • Pepe
      Pepe (film)
      Pepe is a 1960 film starring Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno in the title role, directed by George Sidney. A multitude of cameo appearances attempted to replicate the success of Mario Moreno's American debut, notably Around the World in Eighty Days, produced by Mike Todd in 1956.The film failed to...

       - Charles Rice
      Charles Rice (sound engineer)
      Charles Rice was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Pepe * Bye Bye Birdie -External links:...

    • Sunrise at Campobello
      Sunrise at Campobello
      Sunrise at Campobello is a 1960 American biographical film made by Dore Schary Productions and Warner Bros. It tells the story of the initial struggle by future President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his family when he was stricken with paralysis at the age of 39 in August...

       - George Groves

  • 1961: West Side Story
    West Side Story (film)
    West Side Story is a 1961 musical film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno,...

     - Gordon Sawyer, Samuel Goldwyn Studio
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio was the name that Samuel Goldwyn used to refer to the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios lot and the offices and stages that his company, Goldwyn Pictures, rented there during the 1920s and 1930s...

     and Fred Hynes
    Fred Hynes
    Fred Hynes was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for two more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    , Todd-AO
    Todd-AO
    Todd-AO is a post-production company founded in 1953, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries. The company operates three facilities in the Los Angeles area.-History:...

     Sound Department
    • The Children's Hour - Gordon E. Sawyer
    • Flower Drum Song
      Flower Drum Song (film)
      Flower Drum Song is a 1961 film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The film and stage play were based on the 1957 novel of the same name by the Chinese American author C. Y...

       - Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording...

    • The Guns of Navarone
      The Guns of Navarone (film)
      The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 British-American Action/Adventure war film based on the 1957 novel of the same name about the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II by Scottish thriller writer Alistair MacLean. It stars Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Anthony Quayle and Stanley...

       - John Cox
      John Cox (sound engineer)
      John Cox was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for two more in the same category. He worked on over 140 films between 1931 and 1972.-Selected filmography:Won...

    • The Parent Trap - Robert O. Cook
      Robert O. Cook
      Robert O. Cook was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording. He worked on nearly 100 films between 1946 and 1977.-Selected filmography:...


  • 1962: Lawrence of Arabia
    Lawrence of Arabia (film)
    Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the title role. It is widely...

     -
    John Cox
    John Cox (sound engineer)
    John Cox was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for two more in the same category. He worked on over 140 films between 1931 and 1972.-Selected filmography:Won...

    , Shepperton Studios
    Shepperton Studios
    Shepperton Studios is a film studio in Shepperton, Surrey, England with a history dating back to 1931 since when many notable films have been made there...

    • Bon Voyage!
      Bon Voyage! (1962 film)
      Bon Voyage! is a 1962 Walt Disney film directed by James Neilson and released by Buena Vista Distribution Company. Following their practice of the time, it was also issued as a comic book...

       - Robert O. Cook
      Robert O. Cook
      Robert O. Cook was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording. He worked on nearly 100 films between 1946 and 1977.-Selected filmography:...

    • The Music Man
      The Music Man (1962 film)
      The Music Man is a 1962 musical film starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name by Meredith Willson...

       - George Groves
    • That Touch of Mink
      That Touch of Mink
      That Touch of Mink is a 1962 romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day. The film co-stars Gig Young, John Astin, Audrey Meadows, and Dick Sargent. In addition, baseball stars Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Yogi Berra make cameo appearances....

       - Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording...

    • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
      What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)
      What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a 1962 American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The screenplay by Lukas Heller is based on the novel of the same name by Henry Farrell...

       - Joseph D. Kelly
      Joseph D. Kelly
      Joseph D. Kelly was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? -External links:...


  • 1963: How the West Was Won
    How the West Was Won (film)
    How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film. The picture was one of the last "old-fashioned" epic films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to enjoy great success. It follows four generations of a family as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean...

     - Franklin Milton
    Franklin Milton
    Franklin Milton was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Sound Recording and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

     Studio
    • Bye Bye Birdie
      Bye Bye Birdie (film)
      Bye Bye Birdie is a 1963 musical comedy film from Columbia Pictures. It is a film adaptation of the stage production of the same name. The screenplay was written by Michael Stewart and Irving Brecher, with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams....

       - Charles Rice
      Charles Rice (sound engineer)
      Charles Rice was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Pepe * Bye Bye Birdie -External links:...

    • Captain Newman, M.D.
      Captain Newman, M.D.
      Captain Newman, M.D. is a 1963 film starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert and Bobby Darin. It was directed by David Miller and filmed on location at Fort Huachuca, Arizona....

       - Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording...

    • Cleopatra
      Cleopatra (1963 film)
      Cleopatra is a 1963 British-American-Swiss epic drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Mankiewicz from a book by Carlo Maria Franzero. The film starred Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy...

       - James Corcoran
      James Corcoran (sound engineer)
      James Corcoran was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Corcoran won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more:Won...

      , and Fred Hynes
      Fred Hynes
      Fred Hynes was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for two more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
      It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
      It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers...

       - Gordon E. Sawyer

  • 1964: My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady (film)
    My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...

     -
    George Groves, Warner Brothers Studio
    • Becket - John Cox
      John Cox (sound engineer)
      John Cox was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for two more in the same category. He worked on over 140 films between 1931 and 1972.-Selected filmography:Won...

    • Father Goose
      Father Goose (film)
      Father Goose is a 1964 romantic comedy film set in World War II, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard. The title derives from "Mother Goose", the codename assigned to Grant's character...

       - Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording...

    • Mary Poppins
      Mary Poppins (film)
      Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

       - Robert O. Cook
      Robert O. Cook
      Robert O. Cook was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording. He worked on nearly 100 films between 1946 and 1977.-Selected filmography:...

    • The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Franklin Milton
      Franklin Milton
      Franklin Milton was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Sound Recording and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...


  • 1965: The Sound of Music
    The Sound of Music (film)
    Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical...

     - James Corcoran
    James Corcoran (sound engineer)
    James Corcoran was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Corcoran won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more:Won...

    and Fred Hynes
    Fred Hynes
    Fred Hynes was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for two more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    , 20th Century-Fox Studio
    • The Agony and the Ecstasy
      The Agony and the Ecstasy (film)
      The Agony and the Ecstasy is a 1965 film directed by Carol Reed, starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II. The film was partly based on Irving Stone's biographical novel of the same name. This film deals with the conflicts of Michelangelo and Pope Julius II...

        - James Corcoran
      James Corcoran (sound engineer)
      James Corcoran was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Corcoran won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more:Won...

    • Doctor Zhivago - A. W. Watkins
      A. W. Watkins
      A. W. Watkins was a British sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Goodbye, Mr. Chips * Knights of the Round Table...

      , and Franklin Milton
      Franklin Milton
      Franklin Milton was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Sound Recording and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    • The Great Race
      The Great Race
      The Great Race is a 1965 slapstick comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, directed by Blake Edwards, written by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross, and with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. The supporting cast includes Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn,...

       - George Groves
    • Shenandoah
      Shenandoah (film)
      Shenandoah is a 1965 American Civil War film starring James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, and Katharine Ross. The picture was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Though set during the American Civil War, the film's strong antiwar and humanitarian themes resonated with audiences...

       - Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording...


  • 1966: Grand Prix - Franklin Milton
    Franklin Milton
    Franklin Milton was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Sound Recording and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

     Studio
    • Gambit
      Gambit (1966 film)
      Gambit is a 1966 film starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine as two criminals involved in an elaborate plot centered on a priceless antiquity from millionaire Mr. Shahbandar, played by Herbert Lom...

       - Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson
      Waldon O. Watson was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording...

    • Hawaii
      Hawaii (film)
      Hawaii is a 1966 American film directed by George Roy Hill and based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener. It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student who, along with his new bride , becomes a Calvinist missionary in the Hawaiian Islands...

       - Gordon E. Sawyer
    • The Sand Pebbles
      The Sand Pebbles (film)
      The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American period war film directed by Robert Wise. It tells the story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate aboard the fictional gunboat USS San Pablo in 1920s China....

       - James Corcoran
      James Corcoran (sound engineer)
      James Corcoran was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Corcoran won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more:Won...

    • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
      Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)
      Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is an adaptation of the play of the same title by Edward Albee...

       - George Groves

  • 1967: In the Heat of the Night - Samuel Goldwyn Studio
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio was the name that Samuel Goldwyn used to refer to the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios lot and the offices and stages that his company, Goldwyn Pictures, rented there during the 1920s and 1930s...

     Sound Department
    • Camelot
      Camelot (film)
      Camelot is a 1967 film adaptation of the musical of the same name. Richard Harris stars as Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guinevere, and Franco Nero as Lancelot. The film was directed by Joshua Logan.-Plot:...

       - Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
      Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
      Warner Bros.-Seven Arts was formed in 1967 and became defunct in 1970, when Seven Arts Productions acquired Jack Warner's controlling interest in Warner Bros. for $32 million and merged with it. The deal also included Warner Bros. Records, Reprise Records and the B&W Looney Tunes library...

       Studio Sound Department
    • The Dirty Dozen
      The Dirty Dozen
      The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 film directed by Robert Aldrich and released by MGM. It was filmed in England and features an ensemble cast, including Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, and Robert Webber. The film is based on E. M...

       - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
      Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
      Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

       Studio Sound Department
    • Doctor Dolittle
      Doctor Dolittle (film)
      Doctor Dolittle is a 1967 American musical film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley and Richard Attenborough. It's adapted by Leslie Bricusse from the novel series by Hugh Lofting, primarily The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Story of Doctor...

       - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department
    • Thoroughly Modern Millie
      Thoroughly Modern Millie
      Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss.The...

       - Universal City
      Universal Studios
      Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....

       Studio Sound Department

  • 1968: Oliver!
    Oliver! (film)
    Oliver! is a 1968 British musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart. The screenplay was written by Vernon Harris....

     - Shepperton Studios
    Shepperton Studios
    Shepperton Studios is a film studio in Shepperton, Surrey, England with a history dating back to 1931 since when many notable films have been made there...

     Sound Department
    • Bullitt
      Bullitt
      Bullitt is a 1968 American police procedural film starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Vaughn. It was directed by Peter Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. The story was adapted for the screen by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the 1963 novel Mute Witness by Robert L....

       - Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
      Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
      Warner Bros.-Seven Arts was formed in 1967 and became defunct in 1970, when Seven Arts Productions acquired Jack Warner's controlling interest in Warner Bros. for $32 million and merged with it. The deal also included Warner Bros. Records, Reprise Records and the B&W Looney Tunes library...

       Studio Sound Department
    • Finian's Rainbow
      Finian's Rainbow (film)
      Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 American musical film directed by Francis Ford Coppola that stars Fred Astaire and Petula Clark. The screenplay by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy is based on their 1947 stage musical of the same name.-Plot:...

       - Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
      Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
      Warner Bros.-Seven Arts was formed in 1967 and became defunct in 1970, when Seven Arts Productions acquired Jack Warner's controlling interest in Warner Bros. for $32 million and merged with it. The deal also included Warner Bros. Records, Reprise Records and the B&W Looney Tunes library...

       Studio Sound Department
    • Funny Girl
      Funny Girl (film)
      Funny Girl is a 1968 romantic musical film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart was adapted from her book for the stage musical of the same title...

       - Columbia Studio
      Columbia Pictures
      Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

       Sound Department
    • Star!
      Star! (film)
      Star! is a 1968 American musical film directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by William Fairchild is based upon the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence.-Plot:...

       - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department

  • 1969: Hello, Dolly! - Jack Solomon
    Jack Solomon (sound engineer)
    Jack Solomon was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for five more in the same category...

    , Murray Spivack
    Murray Spivack
    Murray Spivack was a Russian-born American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for another in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    • Anne of the Thousand Days
      Anne of the Thousand Days
      Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 costume drama made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The film tells the story of Anne Boleyn...

       - John Aldred
      John Aldred (sound engineer)
      John Aldred is a British sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Anne of the Thousand Days * Mary, Queen of Scots -External links:...

    • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
      Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
      Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman...

       - William Edmondson
      William Edmondson (sound engineer)
      William Edmondson was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.-External links:...

       and David Dockendorf
      David Dockendorf
      David Dockendorf was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He worked on 100 films between 1958 and 1990....

    • Gaily, Gaily
      Gaily, Gaily
      Gaily, Gaily is a 1969 comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. It is based on the Autobiographical novel by Ben Hecht and stars Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, and George Kennedy....

       - Robert Martin
      Robert Martin (sound engineer)
      Robert Martin was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Gaily, Gaily.-External links:...

       and Clem Portman
      Clem Portman
      Clem Portman was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Gaily, Gaily. He worked on over 200 films between 1930 and 1970.-External links:...

    • Marooned
      Marooned (film)
      Marooned is a 1969 American film directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, and Gene Hackman....

       - Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

       and Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He worked on over 80 films between 1967 and 1986.-Selected filmography:...


1970s

  • 1970: Patton
    Patton (film)
    Patton is a 1970 American biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H...

     -
    Douglas Williams
    Douglas Williams (sound engineer)
    Douglas Williams was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Williams won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more:Won* Patton...

    , Don Bassman
    Don Bassman
    Don Bassman was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    • Airport - Ronald Pierce
      Ronald Pierce (sound engineer)
      Ronald Pierce was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for two more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Pierce won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more:Won* Earthquake Nominated...

       and David H. Moriarty
      David H. Moriarty
      David H. Moriarty was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Airport.-External links:...

    • Ryan's Daughter
      Ryan's Daughter
      Ryan's Daughter is a 1970 film directed by David Lean. The film, set in 1916, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours...

       - Gordon McCallum
      Gordon McCallum
      Gordon McCallum was an American-born English sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for three more in the same category...

       and John Bramall
      John Bramall
      John Bramall was a British sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Ryan's Daughter.-External links:...

    • Tora! Tora! Tora!
      Tora! Tora! Tora!
      is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an all-star cast, including So Yamamura, E.G...

       - Murray Spivack
      Murray Spivack
      Murray Spivack was a Russian-born American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for another in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

       and Herman Lewis
      Herman Lewis
      Herman Lewis was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Tora! Tora! Tora! * The Poseidon Adventure * The Towering Inferno -External links:...

    • Woodstock
      Woodstock (film)
      Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary on the Woodstock Festival that took place in August 1969 at Bethel in New York. Entertainment Weekly called this film the benchmark of concert movies and one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made...

       - Dan Wallin
      Dan Wallin
      Dan Wallin is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 500 films since 1965.-Selected filmography:* Woodstock * A Star Is Born...

       and L. A. Johnson
      Larry Johnson (film producer)
      Larry Alderman Johnson was an American film and music producer, director, and editor best known for his long association with musician Neil Young.-Early life:...


  • 1971: Fiddler on the Roof
    Fiddler on the Roof (film)
    Fiddler on the Roof is the 1971 film adaptation of the 1964 Broadway musical of the same name, with music composed by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905, about Tevye and his Daughters. It was directed by Norman Jewison. The film won three...

     - Gordon McCallum
    Gordon McCallum
    Gordon McCallum was an American-born English sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for three more in the same category...

    , David Hildyard
    David Hildyard
    David Hildyard was a British sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Fiddler on the Roof * Cabaret -External links:...

    • Diamonds Are Forever
      Diamonds Are Forever (film)
      Diamonds Are Forever is the seventh spy film in the Eon Productions James Bond series, and the sixth and final Eon Productions film to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel of the same name, and is the second of four James Bond films...

       - Gordon K. McCallum, John W. Mitchell
      John W. Mitchell
      John William Mitchell, MBE was a British sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on 170 films between 1934 and 1998.-Selected filmography:...

       and Al Overton
      Al Overton
      Al Overton was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Diamonds Are Forever. He worked on over 90 films between 1954 and 1975. His son, Al Overton, Jr. was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Sound.-External links:...

    • The French Connection
      The French Connection (film)
      This article is about the 1971 film. For the British fashion label, see French Connection .The French Connection is a 1971 American crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore...

       - Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Imitation of Life * The French Connection * The Poseidon Adventure...

       and Christopher Newman
    • Kotch
      Kotch
      Kotch is a 1971 American comedy film which tells the story of an elderly man who runs away so as not to be put into a nursing home, and strikes up a friendship with a pregnant teenage girl. It stars Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman and Ellen Geer.The film was adapted...

       - Richard Portman
      Richard Portman
      Richard Portman is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category...

       and Jack Solomon
      Jack Solomon (sound engineer)
      Jack Solomon was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for five more in the same category...

    • Mary, Queen of Scots
      Mary, Queen of Scots (film)
      Mary, Queen of Scots is a 1971 Universal Pictures biographical film based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Leading an all-star cast are Vanessa Redgrave as the titular character and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I. In the same year, Jackson played the part of Elizabeth in the TV drama Elizabeth...

       - Bob Jones
      Bob Jones (sound engineer)
      Bob Jones was a British sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Mary, Queen of Scots. He worked on over 100 films between 1952 and 1985.-External links:...

       and John Aldred
      John Aldred (sound engineer)
      John Aldred is a British sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Anne of the Thousand Days * Mary, Queen of Scots -External links:...


  • 1972: Cabaret
    Cabaret (film)
    Cabaret is a 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing National Socialist Party....

     -
    Robert Knudson
    Robert Knudson
    Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category...

    , David Hildyard
    David Hildyard
    David Hildyard was a British sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Fiddler on the Roof * Cabaret -External links:...

    • Butterflies Are Free
      Butterflies Are Free
      Butterflies Are Free is a 1972 film based on a play by Leonard Gershe. The 1972 film was produced by M.J. Frankovich, released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Milton Katselas and adapted for the screen by Gershe. It was released on 6 July, 1972 in the USA.Goldie Hawn and Edward Albert starred...

       - Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He worked on over 80 films between 1967 and 1986.-Selected filmography:...

       and Charles T. Knight
      Charles T. Knight
      Charles T. Knight was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Butterflies Are Free. He worked on over 40 films between 1964 and 1994.-External links:...

    • The Candidate
      The Candidate (1972 film)
      The Candidate is a 1972 American film starring Robert Redford. Its themes include how the political machine corrupts. There are many parallels between the then-recent 1970 California Senate election between John V. Tunney and George Murphy; however, Redford's character Bill McKay is a political...

       - Richard Portman
      Richard Portman
      Richard Portman is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category...

       and Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for his work on the 1982 Stephen Spielberg film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial...

    • The Godfather
      The Godfather
      The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...

       - Charles Grenzbach
      Charles Grenzbach
      Charles Grenzbach was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for two more in the same category...

      , Richard Portman
      Richard Portman
      Richard Portman is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category...

       and Christopher Newman
    • The Poseidon Adventure - Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Imitation of Life * The French Connection * The Poseidon Adventure...

       and Herman Lewis
      Herman Lewis
      Herman Lewis was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Tora! Tora! Tora! * The Poseidon Adventure * The Towering Inferno -External links:...


  • 1973: The Exorcist
    The Exorcist (film)
    The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty and based on the exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her...

     - Robert Knudson
    Robert Knudson
    Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category...

    , Chris Newman
    • The Day of the Dolphin
      The Day of the Dolphin
      The Day of the Dolphin is a 1973 American science-fiction thriller film directed by Mike Nichols and starring George C. Scott. Loosely based on the 1967 novel, Un animal doué de raison , by French writer Robert Merle, the screenplay was written by Buck Henry.-Plot:A brilliant and driven scientist,...

       - Richard Portman
      Richard Portman
      Richard Portman is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category...

       and Larry Jost
      Larry Jost
      Larry Jost was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 45 films between 1961 and 1984.-Selected filmography:* The Day of the Dolphin...

    • The Paper Chase - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

       and Larry Jost
      Larry Jost
      Larry Jost was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 45 films between 1961 and 1984.-Selected filmography:* The Day of the Dolphin...

    • Paper Moon
      Paper Moon (film)
      Paper Moon is a 1973 American comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white. The film is set during the Great Depression in the U.S. states of Kansas and...

       - Richard Portman
      Richard Portman
      Richard Portman is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category...

       and Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

    • The Sting
      The Sting
      The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 that involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters to con a mob boss . The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who previously directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.Created by...

       - Ronald Pierce
      Ronald Pierce (sound engineer)
      Ronald Pierce was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for two more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Pierce won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more:Won* Earthquake Nominated...

       and Robert R. Bertrand
      Robert R. Bertrand
      Robert R. Bertrand was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Sting.-External links:...


  • 1974: Earthquake
    Earthquake (film)
    Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations...

     -
    Ronald Pierce
    Ronald Pierce (sound engineer)
    Ronald Pierce was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for two more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Pierce won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more:Won* Earthquake Nominated...

    , Melvin Metcalfe, Sr.
    Melvin Metcalfe, Sr.
    Melvin Metcalfe, Sr. was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Earthquake.-External links:...

    • Chinatown - Charles Grenzbach
      Charles Grenzbach
      Charles Grenzbach was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for two more in the same category...

       and Larry Jost
      Larry Jost
      Larry Jost was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 45 films between 1961 and 1984.-Selected filmography:* The Day of the Dolphin...

    • The Conversation
      The Conversation
      The Conversation is a 1974 American psychological thriller film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman...

       - Walter Murch
      Walter Murch
      Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor and sound designer.-Early life:Murch was born in New York City, New York, the son of Katharine and Canadian-born Walter Tandy Murch , a painter. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961...

       and Art Rochester
      Art Rochester
      Art Rochester is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on 65 films since 1970.-Selected filmography:* The Conversation...

    • The Towering Inferno
      The Towering Inferno
      The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American action disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.A co-production between Twentieth Century-Fox and Warner Bros...

       - Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Imitation of Life * The French Connection * The Poseidon Adventure...

       and Herman Lewis
      Herman Lewis
      Herman Lewis was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Tora! Tora! Tora! * The Poseidon Adventure * The Towering Inferno -External links:...

    • Young Frankenstein
      Young Frankenstein
      Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The supporting cast includes Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard...

       - Richard Portman
      Richard Portman
      Richard Portman is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category...

       and Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for his work on the 1982 Stephen Spielberg film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial...


  • 1975: Jaws
    Jaws (film)
    Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...

     - Robert Hoyt
    Robert Hoyt (sound engineer)
    Robert Hoyt is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Jaws.-External links:...

    , Roger Heman
    Roger Heman
    Roger Heman was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another one in the same category.-Selected filmography:Won* Jaws Nominated...

    , Earl Madery
    Earl Madery
    Earl Madery is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Jaws.-External links:...

    , John Carter
    John Carter (sound engineer)
    John Carter was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Jaws. He worked on over 110 films between 1944 and 1980.-External links:...

    • Bite the Bullet - Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He worked on over 80 films between 1967 and 1986.-Selected filmography:...

      , Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

      , Richard Tyler
      Richard Tyler (sound engineer)
      Richard Tyler is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films between 1932 and 1989.-Selected filmography:* Bite the Bullet * Silver Streak...

       and Al Overton, Jr.
      Al Overton, Jr.
      Al Overton, Jr. is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 40 films between 1969 and 1991...

    • Funny Lady
      Funny Lady
      Funny Lady is a 1975 film starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, and Ben Vereen.A sequel to the 1968 film Funny Girl, it is a highly fictionalized account of the later life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her marriage to songwriter and empresario Billy Rose...

       - Richard Portman
      Richard Portman
      Richard Portman is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category...

      , Don MacDougall
      Don MacDougall
      Don MacDougall is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on over 130 films between 1974 and 1999.-Selected filmography:...

      , Curly Thirlwell
      Curly Thirlwell
      Curly Thirlwell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...

      , Jack Solomon
      Jack Solomon (sound engineer)
      Jack Solomon was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for five more in the same category...

    • The Hindenburg
      The Hindenburg (film)
      The Hindenburg is a 1975 American film based on the disaster of the German airship Hindenburg. The film stars George C. Scott. It was produced and directed by Robert Wise, and was written by Nelson Gidding, Richard Levinson and William Link based on the book of the same name by Michael M. Mooney .A.A...

       - Leonard Peterson
      Leonard Peterson (sound engineer)
      Leonard Peterson is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Hindenburg.-External links:...

      , John A. Bolger, Jr.
      John A. Bolger, Jr.
      John A. Bolger, Jr. was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Hindenburg.-External links:...

      , John L. Mack
      John L. Mack
      John L. Mack is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Hindenburg.-External links:...

       and Don Sharpless
      Don Sharpless
      Don Sharpless is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Hindenburg.-External links:...

    • The Wind and the Lion
      The Wind and the Lion
      The Wind and the Lion is a 1975 adventure film. It was written and directed by John Milius and starred Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith and John Huston...

       - Harry W. Tetrick
      Harry W. Tetrick
      Harry W. Tetrick was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* The Wind and the Lion * Rocky * King Kong...

      , Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for eight more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Rochin won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more:Won* The Deer Hunter...

      , William McCaughey
      William McCaughey
      William McCaughey was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

       and Roy Charman
      Roy Charman
      Roy Charman was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Charman won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more:...


  • 1976: All the President's Men
    All the President's Men (film)
    All the President's Men is a 1976 Academy Award-winning political thriller film based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post...

     -
    Arthur Piantadosi
    Arthur Piantadosi
    Arthur Piantadosi was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He worked on over 80 films between 1967 and 1986.-Selected filmography:...

    , Les Fresholtz
    Les Fresholtz
    Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

    , Dick Alexander
    Dick Alexander
    Dick Alexander is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 170 films and television shows since 1975.-Selected filmography:...

    , Jim Webb
    Jim Webb (sound engineer)
    Jim Webb is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another one in the same category.-Selected filmography:Webb won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another:Won...

    • King Kong
      King Kong (1976 film)
      King Kong is a 1976 American monster movie produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 classic film of the same name, about a giant ape that is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition....

       - Harry W. Tetrick
      Harry W. Tetrick
      Harry W. Tetrick was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* The Wind and the Lion * Rocky * King Kong...

      , William McCaughey
      William McCaughey
      William McCaughey was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

      , Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for eight more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Rochin won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more:Won* The Deer Hunter...

       and Jack Solomon
      Jack Solomon (sound engineer)
      Jack Solomon was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for five more in the same category...

    • Rocky
      Rocky
      Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

       - Harry W. Tetrick
      Harry W. Tetrick
      Harry W. Tetrick was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* The Wind and the Lion * Rocky * King Kong...

      , William McCaughey
      William McCaughey
      William McCaughey was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

      , Lyle J. Burbridge
      Lyle J. Burbridge
      Lyle J. Burbridge is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Rocky.-External links:...

       and Bud Alper
      Bud Alper
      Bud Alper is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...

    • Silver Streak - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Douglas O. Williams, Richard Tyler
      Richard Tyler (sound engineer)
      Richard Tyler is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films between 1932 and 1989.-Selected filmography:* Bite the Bullet * Silver Streak...

       and Harold M. Etherington
      Harold M. Etherington
      Harold M. Etherington is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Silver Streak.-External links:...

    • A Star Is Born
      A Star Is Born (1976 film)
      A Star Is Born is a 1976 American rock music musical film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline...

       - Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category...

      , Dan Wallin
      Dan Wallin
      Dan Wallin is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 500 films since 1965.-Selected filmography:* Woodstock * A Star Is Born...

      , Robert Glass
      Robert Glass (sound engineer)
      Robert Glass is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for five more in the same category. He has worked on over 100 films and since 1948.-Selected filmography:...

       and Tom Overton
      Tom Overton
      Tom Overton is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film A Star Is Born.-External links:...


  • 1977: Star Wars
    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars, is a 1977 American epic space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films complete the original trilogy, while a prequel trilogy completes the...

     - Don MacDougall
    Don MacDougall
    Don MacDougall is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on over 130 films between 1974 and 1999.-Selected filmography:...

    , Ray West
    Ray West
    Ray West is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. He worked on over 60 films between 1977 and 1993.-External links:...

    , Bob Minkler
    Bob Minkler
    Bob Minkler is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another in the same category. He worked on over 50 films between 1957 and 1992.-Selected filmography:Won* Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope...

    , Derek Ball
    Derek Ball
    Derek Ball is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. He worked on 40 films between 1968 and 1987.-External links:...

    • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
      Close Encounters of the Third Kind
      Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, and Cary Guffey...

       - Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category...

      , Robert Glass
      Robert Glass (sound engineer)
      Robert Glass is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for five more in the same category. He has worked on over 100 films and since 1948.-Selected filmography:...

      , Don MacDougall
      Don MacDougall
      Don MacDougall is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on over 130 films between 1974 and 1999.-Selected filmography:...

       and Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for his work on the 1982 Stephen Spielberg film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial...

    • The Deep - Walter Goss
      Walter Goss
      Walter Goss is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Deep.-External links:...

      , Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 170 films and television shows since 1975.-Selected filmography:...

      , Tom Beckert
      Tom Beckert
      Tom Beckert is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* The Deep * The Witches of Eastwick -External links:...

       and Robin Gregory
      Robin Gregory
      Robin Gregory is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* The Deep * Outland -External links:...

    • Sorcerer
      Sorcerer (film)
      Sorcerer is a 1977 thriller adventure film, produced and directed by William Friedkin, starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal and Amidou. It is the second remake of the 1953 French film Le Salaire de la Peur ....

       - Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category...

      , Robert Glass
      Robert Glass (sound engineer)
      Robert Glass is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for five more in the same category. He has worked on over 100 films and since 1948.-Selected filmography:...

      , Richard Tyler
      Richard Tyler (sound engineer)
      Richard Tyler is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films between 1932 and 1989.-Selected filmography:* Bite the Bullet * Silver Streak...

       and Jean-Louis Ducarme
      Jean-Louis Ducarme
      Jean-Louis Ducarme is a French sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Sorcerer.-External links:...

    • The Turning Point
      The Turning Point (1977 film)
      The Turning Point is a 1977 film written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. In starring roles were Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott, Anthony Zerbe, Marshall Thompson and James Mitchell.-Plot:This film tells the story of...

       - Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Imitation of Life * The French Connection * The Poseidon Adventure...

      , Paul Wells
      Paul Wells (sound engineer)
      Paul Wells is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* The Turning Point * The Rose -External links:...

      , Douglas O. Williams and Jerry Jost
      Jerry Jost
      Jerry Jost is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Turning Point.-External links:...


  • 1978: The Deer Hunter
    The Deer Hunter
    The Deer Hunter is a 1978 drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale, and George Dzundza...

     -
    Richard Portman
    Richard Portman
    Richard Portman is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category...

    , William McCaughey
    William McCaughey
    William McCaughey was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

    , Aaron Rochin
    Aaron Rochin
    Aaron Rochin is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for eight more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Rochin won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more:Won* The Deer Hunter...

    , Darin Knight
    Darin Knight
    Darin Knight is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film The Deer Hunter.-External links:...

    • The Buddy Holly Story
      The Buddy Holly Story
      The film was adapted by Robert Gittler from Buddy Holly: His Life and Music, the biography of Holly by John Goldrosen. It was directed by Steve Rash.-Plot:...

       - Tex Rudloff
      Tex Rudloff
      Tex Rudloff is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Buddy Holly Story.-External links:...

      , Joel Fein
      Joel Fein
      Joel Fein was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Buddy Holly Story.-External links:...

      , Curly Thirlwell
      Curly Thirlwell
      Curly Thirlwell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...

       and Willie D. Burton
    • Days of Heaven
      Days of Heaven
      Days of Heaven is a 1978 American romantic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz. Set in the early 20th century, it tells the story of two poor lovers, Bill and Abby, as they travel to the Texas Panhandle to harvest...

       - John Wilkinson
      John Wilkinson (sound engineer)
      John Wilkinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another two in the same category...

      , Robert W. Glass, Jr.
      Robert W. Glass, Jr.
      Robert W. Glass, Jr. is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...

      , John T. Reitz
      John T. Reitz
      John T. Reitz is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another three in the same category. He has worked on over 180 films since 1976.-Selected filmography:...

       and Barry Thomas
      Barry Thomas (sound engineer)
      Barry Thomas is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Days of Heaven.-External links:...

    • Hooper
      Hooper (film)
      Hooper is a 1978 action-comedy motion picture starring Burt Reynolds, based loosely on the experiences of director Hal Needham, a one-time stuntman in his own right...

       - Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category...

      , Robert Glass
      Robert Glass (sound engineer)
      Robert Glass is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for five more in the same category. He has worked on over 100 films and since 1948.-Selected filmography:...

      , Don MacDougall
      Don MacDougall
      Don MacDougall is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on over 130 films between 1974 and 1999.-Selected filmography:...

       and Jack Solomon
      Jack Solomon (sound engineer)
      Jack Solomon was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for five more in the same category...

    • Superman - Gordon K. McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone
      Graham V. Hartstone
      Graham V. Hartstone is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 160 films since 1962.-Selected filmography:* Superman * A Passage to India...

      , Nicolas Le Messurier
      Nicolas Le Messurier
      Nicolas Le Messurier is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 150 films since 1968.-Selected filmography:* Superman * A Passage to India...

       and Roy Charman
      Roy Charman
      Roy Charman was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Charman won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more:...


  • 1979: Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...

     - Walter Murch
    Walter Murch
    Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor and sound designer.-Early life:Murch was born in New York City, New York, the son of Katharine and Canadian-born Walter Tandy Murch , a painter. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961...

    , Mark Berger
    Mark Berger (sound engineer)
    Mark Berger is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound. He has worked on over 160 films since 1973.-Selected filmography:* Apocalypse Now * The Right Stuff * Amadeus...

    , Richard Beggs
    Richard Beggs
    Richard Beggs is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Apocalypse Now. He has worked on over 60 films since 1979.-External links:...

    , Nat Boxer
    Nat Boxer
    Nat Boxer was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Apocalypse Now.-External links:...

    • The Electric Horseman
      The Electric Horseman
      The Electric Horseman is a 1979 adventure and romance feature film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and directed by Sydney Pollack. It was the third time Redford and Fonda starred together in a feature film, having previously teamed on The Chase and Barefoot in the Park .-Plot:Sonny Steele ...

       - Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He worked on over 80 films between 1967 and 1986.-Selected filmography:...

      , Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

      , Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler is a Motion Picture Sound Re-Recording Mixer. His Oscars are for the work done on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down, but Minkler has a varied career that includes films like Inglourious Basterds, JFK and Star Wars, as well television programs like The Pacific and John Adams...

       and Al Overton, Jr.
      Al Overton, Jr.
      Al Overton, Jr. is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 40 films between 1969 and 1991...

    • Meteor
      Meteor (film)
      Meteor is a 1979 science fiction Technicolor disaster film in which scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, cold war politics in their efforts to prevent disaster. The movie starred Sean Connery and Natalie Wood.It was directed by Ronald Neame...

       - William McCaughey
      William McCaughey
      William McCaughey was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category.-Selected filmography:...

      , Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for eight more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Rochin won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more:Won* The Deer Hunter...

      , Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Meteor * Fame * Pennies from Heaven * WarGames...

       and Jack Solomon
      Jack Solomon (sound engineer)
      Jack Solomon was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Sound Recording and was nominated for five more in the same category...

    • 1941
      1941 (film)
      1941 is a 1979 period comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and featuring an ensemble cast including John Belushi, Ned Beatty, John Candy, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee and Dan Aykroyd...

       - Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category...

      , Robert Glass
      Robert Glass (sound engineer)
      Robert Glass is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for five more in the same category. He has worked on over 100 films and since 1948.-Selected filmography:...

      , Don MacDougall
      Don MacDougall
      Don MacDougall is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on over 130 films between 1974 and 1999.-Selected filmography:...

       and Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for his work on the 1982 Stephen Spielberg film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial...

    • The Rose
      The Rose (film)
      The Rose is a 1979 American musical drama film which tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star who struggles to cope with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager...

       - Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg
      Theodore Soderberg was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording.-Selected filmography:* Imitation of Life * The French Connection * The Poseidon Adventure...

      , Douglas O. Williams, Paul Wells
      Paul Wells (sound engineer)
      Paul Wells is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* The Turning Point * The Rose -External links:...

       and Jim Webb
      Jim Webb (sound engineer)
      Jim Webb is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another one in the same category.-Selected filmography:Webb won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another:Won...


1980s

  • 1980: The Empire Strikes Back
    Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
    Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. The screenplay, based on a story by George Lucas, was written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan...

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    Bill Varney
    Bill Varney
    Harold William Varney , better known as Bill Varney, was an American motion picture sound mixer. A two-time Academy Award winner, Varney shared the Academy Award for Best Sound for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981...

    , Steve Maslow
    Steve Maslow
    Steve Maslow is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

    , Gregg Landaker
    Gregg Landaker
    Gregg Landaker is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

    , Peter Sutton
    Peter Sutton (sound engineer)
    Peter Sutton is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.-External links:...

    • Altered States
      Altered States
      Altered States is a 1980 American science fiction-horror film adaptation of a novel by the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. It was the only novel that Chayefsky ever wrote, as well as his final film. Both the novel and the film are based on John C...

       - Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He worked on over 80 films between 1967 and 1986.-Selected filmography:...

      , Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

      , Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler is a Motion Picture Sound Re-Recording Mixer. His Oscars are for the work done on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down, but Minkler has a varied career that includes films like Inglourious Basterds, JFK and Star Wars, as well television programs like The Pacific and John Adams...

       and Willie D. Burton
    • Coal Miner's Daughter
      Coal Miner's Daughter
      Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical film which tells the story of country music icon Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted.-Background:The film was...

       - Richard Portman
      Richard Portman
      Richard Portman is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category...

      , Roger Heman
      Roger Heman
      Roger Heman was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another one in the same category.-Selected filmography:Won* Jaws Nominated...

       and James R. Alexander
      James R. Alexander
      James R. Alexander is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...

    • Fame - Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Meteor * Fame * Pennies from Heaven * WarGames...

      , Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for eight more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Rochin won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more:Won* The Deer Hunter...

      , Jay M. Harding
      Jay M. Harding
      Jay M. Harding is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Fame * Pennies from Heaven -External links:...

       and Christopher Newman
    • Raging Bull - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball
      David J. Kimball
      David J. Kimball is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Raging Bull.-External links:...

       and Les Lazarowitz
      Les Lazarowitz
      Les Lazarowitz is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...


  • 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...

     - Bill Varney
    Bill Varney
    Harold William Varney , better known as Bill Varney, was an American motion picture sound mixer. A two-time Academy Award winner, Varney shared the Academy Award for Best Sound for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981...

    , Steve Maslow
    Steve Maslow
    Steve Maslow is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

    , Gregg Landaker
    Gregg Landaker
    Gregg Landaker is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

    , Roy Charman
    Roy Charman
    Roy Charman was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Charman won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more:...

    • On Golden Pond
      On Golden Pond (1981 film)
      On Golden Pond is a 1981 American drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his 1979 play of the same title. Henry Fonda won the Academy Award in what was his final film role. Co-star Katharine Hepburn also received an Oscar, as did Thompson for his...

       - Richard Portman
      Richard Portman
      Richard Portman is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category...

       and David M. Ronne
      David M. Ronne
      David M. Ronne was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 120 films between 1966 and 2007.-Selected filmography:* On Golden Pond...

    • Outland
      Outland (film)
      Outland is a 1981 British science fiction thriller film written and directed by Peter Hyams.Set on Jupiter's moon Io, it has been described as a space Western, and bears thematic resemblances to High Noon....

       - John Wilkinson
      John Wilkinson (sound engineer)
      John Wilkinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another two in the same category...

      , Robert W. Glass, Jr.
      Robert W. Glass, Jr.
      Robert W. Glass, Jr. is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...

      , Robert Thirlwell
      Robert Thirlwell
      Robert Thirlwell is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Outland * The River * Back to the Future -External links:...

       and Robin Gregory
      Robin Gregory
      Robin Gregory is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* The Deep * Outland -External links:...

    • Pennies from Heaven
      Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)
      Pennies from Heaven is a 1981 musical film. The film was based on a 1978 BBC television drama. In 1981, Dennis Potter adapted his own screenplay for a film of the same name for American audiences, with its setting changed to Depression era Chicago. Potter was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award...

       - Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Meteor * Fame * Pennies from Heaven * WarGames...

      , Jay M. Harding
      Jay M. Harding
      Jay M. Harding is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Fame * Pennies from Heaven -External links:...

      , Richard Tyler
      Richard Tyler (sound engineer)
      Richard Tyler is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films between 1932 and 1989.-Selected filmography:* Bite the Bullet * Silver Streak...

       and Al Overton, Jr.
      Al Overton, Jr.
      Al Overton, Jr. is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 40 films between 1969 and 1991...

    • Reds - Dick Vorisek
      Dick Vorisek
      Dick Vorisek was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Reds. He worked on over 130 films between 1947 and 1988.-External links:...

      , Tom Fleischman
      Tom Fleischman
      Tom Fleischman is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 170 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Reds * The Silence of the Lambs...

       and Simon Kaye
      Simon Kaye
      Simon Kaye is a British sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...


  • 1982: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Peter Coyote...

     -
    Robert Knudson
    Robert Knudson
    Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category...

    , Robert Glass
    Robert Glass (sound engineer)
    Robert Glass is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for five more in the same category. He has worked on over 100 films and since 1948.-Selected filmography:...

    , Don Digirolamo
    Don Digirolamo
    Don Digirolamo is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category. He has worked on over 170 films since 1963.-Selected filmography:...

    , Gene Cantamessa
    Gene Cantamessa
    Gene Cantamessa was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for his work on the 1982 Stephen Spielberg film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial...

    • Das Boot
      Das Boot
      Das Boot is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann...

       - Milan Bor
      Milan Bor
      Milan Bor is a German sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Das Boot.-External links:...

      , Trevor Pyke
      Trevor Pyke
      Trevor Pyke is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Das Boot.-External links:...

       and Mike Le Mare
      Mike Le Mare
      Mike Le Mare is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Sound and Best Effects for the film Das Boot.-External links:...

    • Gandhi
      Gandhi (film)
      Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Ben Kingsley as Gandhi. They both...

       -: Gerry Humphreys
      Gerry Humphreys
      Gerry Humphreys was a Welsh sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on 250 films between 1952 and 2002.-Selected filmography:* Gandhi...

      , Robin O'Donoghue
      Robin O'Donoghue
      Robin O'Donoghueis a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 130 films since 1971.-External links:...

      , Jonathan Bates
      Jonathan Bates (sound engineer)
      Jonathan Bates was a British sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Gandhi. He worked on over 65 films between 1962 and 2007 and was the youngest son of writer H. E. Bates.-External links:...

       and Simon Kaye
      Simon Kaye
      Simon Kaye is a British sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

    • Tootsie
      Tootsie
      Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to extreme lengths to land a job. The movie stars Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange, with a supporting cast that includes Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman,...

       - Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi
      Arthur Piantadosi was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He worked on over 80 films between 1967 and 1986.-Selected filmography:...

      , Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

      , Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 170 films and television shows since 1975.-Selected filmography:...

       and Les Lazarowitz
      Les Lazarowitz
      Les Lazarowitz is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...

    • Tron
      Tron
      -Film:*Tron , a franchise that began in 1982 with the Walt Disney Pictures film Tron** Tron , a 1982 science fiction film by Disney, starring Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, Dan Shor and David Warner...

       - Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler is a Motion Picture Sound Re-Recording Mixer. His Oscars are for the work done on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down, but Minkler has a varied career that includes films like Inglourious Basterds, JFK and Star Wars, as well television programs like The Pacific and John Adams...

      , Bob Minkler
      Bob Minkler
      Bob Minkler is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another in the same category. He worked on over 50 films between 1957 and 1992.-Selected filmography:Won* Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope...

      , Lee Minkler
      Lee Minkler
      Lee Minkler is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Tron.-External links:...

       and James LaRue
      James LaRue (sound engineer)
      James LaRue is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Tron.-External links:...


  • 1983: The Right Stuff - Mark Berger
    Mark Berger (sound engineer)
    Mark Berger is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound. He has worked on over 160 films since 1973.-Selected filmography:* Apocalypse Now * The Right Stuff * Amadeus...

    , Tom Scott
    Tom Scott (sound engineer)
    Tom Scott is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* The Right Stuff * Amadeus -External links:...

    , Randy Thom, David MacMillan
    David MacMillan (sound engineer)
    David MacMillan is an American sound engineer. He has won three Academy Awards for Best Sound. He has worked on over 70 films since 1973.-Selected filmography:* The Right Stuff * Speed * Apollo 13 -External links:...

    • Never Cry Wolf
      Never Cry Wolf (film)
      Never Cry Wolf is a 1983 American drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film is an adaption of Farley Mowat's 1963 autobiography of the same name and stars Charles Martin Smith as a government biologist sent into the wilderness to study the caribou population, whose decline is believed to be...

       - Alan Splet
      Alan Splet
      Alan Splet was a sound designer and sound editor. He worked on numerous film projects throughout his career, including Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet and The Black Stallion for which he won the Oscar. He had a long-lasting and fruitful working relationship with the director David Lynch, with whom...

      , Todd Boekelheide
      Todd Boekelheide
      Todd Boekelheide is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another in the same category.-Selected filmography:Boekelheide won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another:Won...

      , Randy Thom and David Parker
      David Parker (sound engineer)
      David Parker is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for another four in the same category...

    • Return of the Jedi
      Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
      Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand and written by George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan. It is the third film released in the Star Wars saga, and the sixth in terms of the series' internal chronology...

       - Ben Burtt
      Ben Burtt
      Benjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. is an American sound designer who has worked on various films including: the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, Invasion of the Body Snatchers , E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , and WALL-E...

      , Gary Summers, Randy Thom and Tony Dawe
      Tony Dawe
      Tony Dawe is a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi * Empire of the Sun...

    • Terms of Endearment
      Terms of Endearment
      Terms of Endearment is a 1983 romantic comedy-drama film adapted by James L. Brooks from the novel by Larry McMurtry and starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson...

       - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Rick Kline
      Rick Kline
      Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Terms of Endearment * Silverado * Top Gun...

      , Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

       and James R. Alexander
      James R. Alexander
      James R. Alexander is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...

    • WarGames
      WarGames
      WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War suspense/science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film stars Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy....

       - Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Meteor * Fame * Pennies from Heaven * WarGames...

      , Carlos Delarios
      Carlos Delarios
      Carlos Delarios is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 100 films since 1980.-Selected filmography:* WarGames * 2010 * RoboCop...

      , Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for eight more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Rochin won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more:Won* The Deer Hunter...

       and Willie D. Burton

  • 1984: Amadeus
    Amadeus (film)
    Amadeus is a 1984 period drama film directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Adapted from Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the story is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the...

     -
    Mark Berger
    Mark Berger (sound engineer)
    Mark Berger is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound. He has worked on over 160 films since 1973.-Selected filmography:* Apocalypse Now * The Right Stuff * Amadeus...

    , Tom Scott
    Tom Scott (sound engineer)
    Tom Scott is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* The Right Stuff * Amadeus -External links:...

    , Todd Boekelheide
    Todd Boekelheide
    Todd Boekelheide is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another in the same category.-Selected filmography:Boekelheide won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another:Won...

    , Chris Newman
    • 2010 - Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Meteor * Fame * Pennies from Heaven * WarGames...

      , Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for eight more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Rochin won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more:Won* The Deer Hunter...

      , Carlos Delarios
      Carlos Delarios
      Carlos Delarios is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 100 films since 1980.-Selected filmography:* WarGames * 2010 * RoboCop...

       and Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for his work on the 1982 Stephen Spielberg film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial...

    • Dune
      Dune (film)
      Dune is a 1984 science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, and includes an ensemble of well-known American and European actors in supporting roles. It was filmed at the Churubusco...

       - Bill Varney
      Bill Varney
      Harold William Varney , better known as Bill Varney, was an American motion picture sound mixer. A two-time Academy Award winner, Varney shared the Academy Award for Best Sound for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981...

      , Steve Maslow
      Steve Maslow
      Steve Maslow is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

      , Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

       and Nelson Stoll
      Nelson Stoll
      Nelson Stoll is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 40 films since 1970.-External links:...

    • A Passage to India
      A Passage to India (film)
      A Passage to India is a 1984 drama film written and directed by David Lean. The screenplay is based on the 1924 novel of the same title by E. M. Forster and the 1960 play by Santha Rama Rau that was inspired by the novel....

       - : Graham V. Hartstone
      Graham V. Hartstone
      Graham V. Hartstone is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 160 films since 1962.-Selected filmography:* Superman * A Passage to India...

      , Nicolas Le Messurier
      Nicolas Le Messurier
      Nicolas Le Messurier is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 150 films since 1968.-Selected filmography:* Superman * A Passage to India...

      , Michael A. Carter
      Michael A. Carter
      Michael A. Carter was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 60 films between 1984 and 2004.-Selected filmography:* A Passage to India * Aliens...

       and John W. Mitchell
      John W. Mitchell
      John William Mitchell, MBE was a British sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on 170 films between 1934 and 1998.-Selected filmography:...

    • The River
      The River (1984 film)
      The River is a 1984 film which tells the story of a struggling farm family in the Tennessee valley trying keep its farm going in the face of bank foreclosures, floods, and other hard times. The father faces the dilemma of having to work as a strikebreaker in a steel mill to keep his family farm...

       - : Nick Alphin
      Nick Alphin
      Nick Alphin is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The River.-External links:...

      , Robert Thirlwell
      Robert Thirlwell
      Robert Thirlwell is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Outland * The River * Back to the Future -External links:...

      , Richard Portman
      Richard Portman
      Richard Portman is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for ten more in the same category...

       and David M. Ronne
      David M. Ronne
      David M. Ronne was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 120 films between 1966 and 2007.-Selected filmography:* On Golden Pond...


  • 1985: Out of Africa - Chris Jenkins
    Chris Jenkins (sound engineer)
    Chris Jenkins is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for another two in the same category...

    , Gary Alexander
    Gary Alexander (sound engineer)
    Gary Alexander is an American sound engineer. He won the Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Out of Africa. He has worked on over 300 films since 1976.-External links:...

    , Larry Stensvold
    Larry Stensvold
    Larry Stensvold is an American sound engineer. He won the Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Out of Africa. He has worked on over 150 films since 1980.-External links:...

    , Peter Handford
    • Back to the Future
      Back to the Future
      Back to the Future is a 1985 American science-fiction adventure film. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg, and starred Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson. The film tells the story of...

       - : Bill Varney
      Bill Varney
      Harold William Varney , better known as Bill Varney, was an American motion picture sound mixer. A two-time Academy Award winner, Varney shared the Academy Award for Best Sound for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981...

      , B. Tennyson Sebastian II
      B. Tennyson Sebastian II
      B. Tennyson Sebastian II is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Back to the Future. He has worked on over 40 films since 1980.-External links:...

      , Robert Thirlwell
      Robert Thirlwell
      Robert Thirlwell is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Outland * The River * Back to the Future -External links:...

       and William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:* Back to the Future * Top Gun...

    • A Chorus Line
      A Chorus Line (film)
      A Chorus Line is a 1985 musical film directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Michael Douglas. The screenplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the Tony Award-winning book of the 1975 stage production of the same name by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante...

       - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler is a Motion Picture Sound Re-Recording Mixer. His Oscars are for the work done on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down, but Minkler has a varied career that includes films like Inglourious Basterds, JFK and Star Wars, as well television programs like The Pacific and John Adams...

      , Gerry Humphreys
      Gerry Humphreys
      Gerry Humphreys was a Welsh sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on 250 films between 1952 and 2002.-Selected filmography:* Gandhi...

       and Christopher Newman
    • Ladyhawke
      Ladyhawke
      Ladyhawke is a 1985 fantasy film directed by Richard Donner, starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer. The film marked the second 20th Century Fox film to be co-produced and co-released by Warner Bros.. The first was The Towering Inferno; this time Warner got the U.S...

       - Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

      , Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 170 films and television shows since 1975.-Selected filmography:...

      , Vern Poore
      Vern Poore
      Vern Poore is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on over 60 films between 1975 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

       and Bud Alper
      Bud Alper
      Bud Alper is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...

    • Silverado - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Rick Kline
      Rick Kline
      Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Terms of Endearment * Silverado * Top Gun...

      , Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

       and David M. Ronne
      David M. Ronne
      David M. Ronne was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 120 films between 1966 and 2007.-Selected filmography:* On Golden Pond...


  • 1986: Platoon
    Platoon (film)
    Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and stars Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth....

     -
    John Wilkinson
    John Wilkinson (sound engineer)
    John Wilkinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another two in the same category...

    , Richard Rogers
    Richard Rogers (sound engineer)
    Richard Rogers is an American sound engineer. He won the Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Platoon. He has worked on over 120 films since 1981.-External links:...

    , Charles Grenzbach
    Charles Grenzbach
    Charles Grenzbach was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for two more in the same category...

    , Simon Kaye
    Simon Kaye
    Simon Kaye is a British sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

    • Aliens
      Aliens (film)
      Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Bill Paxton...

       - Graham V. Hartstone
      Graham V. Hartstone
      Graham V. Hartstone is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 160 films since 1962.-Selected filmography:* Superman * A Passage to India...

      , Nicolas Le Messurier
      Nicolas Le Messurier
      Nicolas Le Messurier is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 150 films since 1968.-Selected filmography:* Superman * A Passage to India...

      , Michael A. Carter
      Michael A. Carter
      Michael A. Carter was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 60 films between 1984 and 2004.-Selected filmography:* A Passage to India * Aliens...

       and Roy Charman
      Roy Charman
      Roy Charman was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for three more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Charman won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more:...

    • Heartbreak Ridge
      Heartbreak Ridge
      Heartbreak Ridge is a 1986 American war film, starring Clint Eastwood and Mario Van Peebles, surrounding the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada, West Indies. A portion of the movie was filmed on the island itself....

       - : Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

      , Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 170 films and television shows since 1975.-Selected filmography:...

      , Vern Poore
      Vern Poore
      Vern Poore is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on over 60 films between 1975 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

       and Bill Nelson
      Bill Nelson (sound engineer)
      Bill Nelson is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...

    • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
      Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
      Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a 1986 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the fourth feature film based on the Star Trek science fiction television series and completes the story arc begun in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and continued in Star Trek III: The...

       - Terry Porter
      Terry Porter (sound engineer)
      Terry Porter is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 170 films since 1980.-Selected filmography:* Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home...

      , David J. Hudson
      David J. Hudson
      David J. Hudson is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home * Beauty and the Beast * Aladdin -External links:...

      , Mel Metcalfe
      Mel Metcalfe
      Mel Metcalfe is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home * Beauty and the Beast * Aladdin -External links:...

       and Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa
      Gene Cantamessa was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for his work on the 1982 Stephen Spielberg film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial...

    • Top Gun
      Top Gun
      Top Gun may refer to:* Top Gun is a 1986 film starring Tom Cruise.**Top Gun , soundtrack to the movie**Top Gun , a number of games based on the movie...

       - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Rick Kline
      Rick Kline
      Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Terms of Endearment * Silverado * Top Gun...

       and William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:* Back to the Future * Top Gun...


  • 1987: The Last Emperor
    The Last Emperor
    The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, whose autobiography was the basis for the screenplay written by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci. Independently produced by Jeremy Thomas, it was directed by Bertolucci and released in 1987 by Columbia Pictures...

     - Bill Rowe
    Bill Rowe (sound engineer)
    Bill Rowe was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film The Last Emperor. He worked on over 150 films between 1961 and 1992.-External links:...

    , Ivan Sharrock
    Ivan Sharrock
    Ivan Sharrock is a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for three more in the same category...

    • Empire of the Sun
      Empire of the Sun (film)
      Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, and Nigel Havers...

       - Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category...

      , Don Digirolamo
      Don Digirolamo
      Don Digirolamo is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category. He has worked on over 170 films since 1963.-Selected filmography:...

      , John Boyd
      John Boyd (sound engineer)
      John Boyd is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Empire of the Sun * Who Framed Roger Rabbit -External links:...

       and Tony Dawe
      Tony Dawe
      Tony Dawe is a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi * Empire of the Sun...

    • Lethal Weapon
      Lethal Weapon
      Lethal Weapon is a 1987 American buddy cop action film and the first in a series of films, all directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched pair of LAPD detectives, and Gary Busey as their primary adversary...

       - Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

      , Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 170 films and television shows since 1975.-Selected filmography:...

      , Vern Poore
      Vern Poore
      Vern Poore is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on over 60 films between 1975 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

       and Bill Nelson
      Bill Nelson (sound engineer)
      Bill Nelson is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-External links:...

    • RoboCop
      RoboCop
      RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop"...

       - Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Meteor * Fame * Pennies from Heaven * WarGames...

      , Carlos Delarios
      Carlos Delarios
      Carlos Delarios is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 100 films since 1980.-Selected filmography:* WarGames * 2010 * RoboCop...

      , Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for eight more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Rochin won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more:Won* The Deer Hunter...

       and Robert Wald
      Robert Wald (sound engineer)
      Robert Wald is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film RoboCop.-External links:...

    • The Witches of Eastwick
      The Witches of Eastwick (film)
      The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American horror comedy based on John Updike's novel of the same name. Directed by George Miller, the film stars Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne, alongside Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer as the eponymous witches...

       - Wayne Artman
      Wayne Artman
      Wayne Artman was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Witches of Eastwick. He worked on over 130 films between 1973 and 2000....

      , Tom Beckert
      Tom Beckert
      Tom Beckert is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* The Deep * The Witches of Eastwick -External links:...

      , Tom E. Dahl
      Tom E. Dahl
      Tom E. Dahl is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Witches of Eastwick. He has worked on over 120 films since 1977.-External links:...

      , Art Rochester
      Art Rochester
      Art Rochester is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on 65 films since 1970.-Selected filmography:* The Conversation...


  • 1988: Bird - Les Fresholtz
    Les Fresholtz
    Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

    , Dick Alexander
    Dick Alexander
    Dick Alexander is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 170 films and television shows since 1975.-Selected filmography:...

    , Vern Poore
    Vern Poore
    Vern Poore is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on over 60 films between 1975 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

    , Willie Burton
    • Die Hard
      Die Hard
      Die Hard is a 1988 American action film and the first in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. It is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which...

       - Don J. Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary
      Kevin F. Cleary
      Kevin F. Cleary is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Die Hard * The Abyss * The Hunt for Red October -External links:...

      , Richard Overton
      Richard Overton (sound engineer)
      Richard Overton is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Die Hard * The Abyss * The Hunt for Red October -External links:...

       and Al Overton, Jr.
      Al Overton, Jr.
      Al Overton, Jr. is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 40 films between 1969 and 1991...

    • Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey
      Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey
      Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 American drama film directed by Michael Apted and starring Sigourney Weaver as naturalist Dian Fossey. It tells the true-life story of her work in Rwanda with Mountain Gorillas and was nominated for five Academy Awards....

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Brian Saunders
      Brian Saunders
      Brian Saunders is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey.-External links:...

       and Peter Handford
    • Mississippi Burning
      Mississippi Burning
      Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime drama film loosely based on the FBI investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in the U.S. state of Mississippi in 1964. The film focuses on two fictional FBI agents who investigate the murders...

       - Robert J. Litt
      Robert J. Litt
      Robert J. Litt is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 160 films between 1964 and 2000.-Selected filmography:* Mississippi Burning * The Shawshank Redemption...

      , Elliot Tyson
      Elliot Tyson
      Elliot Tyson is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for three more in the same category...

      , Rick Kline
      Rick Kline
      Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Terms of Endearment * Silverado * Top Gun...

       and Danny Michael
      Danny Michael
      Danny Michael is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Mississippi Burning.-External links:...

    • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
      Who Framed Roger Rabbit
      Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters...

       - Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson
      Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category...

      , John Boyd
      John Boyd (sound engineer)
      John Boyd is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Empire of the Sun * Who Framed Roger Rabbit -External links:...

      , Don Digirolamo
      Don Digirolamo
      Don Digirolamo is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category. He has worked on over 170 films since 1963.-Selected filmography:...

       and Tony Dawe
      Tony Dawe
      Tony Dawe is a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi * Empire of the Sun...


  • 1989: Glory - Donald O. Mitchell
    Donald O. Mitchell
    Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

    , Gregg Rudloff
    Gregg Rudloff
    Gregg Rudloff is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category...

    , Elliot Tyson
    Elliot Tyson
    Elliot Tyson is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for three more in the same category...

    , Russell Williams
    Russell Williams (sound engineer)
    Russell Williams is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound. He has worked on over 50 films since 1976.-Selected filmography:* Glory * Dances with Wolves -External links:...

    • The Abyss
      The Abyss
      The Abyss is a 1989 science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. The original musical score was composed by Alan Silvestri...

       - Don J. Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary
      Kevin F. Cleary
      Kevin F. Cleary is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Die Hard * The Abyss * The Hunt for Red October -External links:...

      , Richard Overton
      Richard Overton (sound engineer)
      Richard Overton is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Die Hard * The Abyss * The Hunt for Red October -External links:...

       and Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 60 films since 1984.-Selected filmography:...

    • Black Rain - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

       and Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound...

    • Born on the Fourth of July
      Born on the Fourth of July (film)
      Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Oliver Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also...

       - Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler is a Motion Picture Sound Re-Recording Mixer. His Oscars are for the work done on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down, but Minkler has a varied career that includes films like Inglourious Basterds, JFK and Star Wars, as well television programs like The Pacific and John Adams...

      , Gregory H. Watkins
      Gregory H. Watkins
      Gregory H. Watkins is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category...

      , Wylie Stateman
      Wylie Stateman
      Wylie Stateman is an American-born supervising sound editor. Stateman’s been nominated for multiple industry awards, including five Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and 15 Motion Picture Sound Editor Awards...

       and Tod A. Maitland
      Tod A. Maitland
      Tod A. Maitland is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Born on the Fourth of July * JFK...

    • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
      Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
      Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry...

       - Ben Burtt
      Ben Burtt
      Benjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. is an American sound designer who has worked on various films including: the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, Invasion of the Body Snatchers , E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , and WALL-E...

      , Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy
      Shawn Murphy (sound engineer)
      Shawn Murphy is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

       and Tony Dawe
      Tony Dawe
      Tony Dawe is a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi * Empire of the Sun...


1990s

  • 1990
    1990 in film
    The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

    : (63rd
    63rd Academy Awards
    The 63rd Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1991 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. The show was hosted by Billy Crystal.The prominent winner was Dances with Wolves which earned seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Joe Pesci winning Best Supporting Actor...

    )
    Dances with Wolves
    Dances with Wolves
    Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic western film directed by and starring Kevin Costner. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake and tells the story of a Union Army Lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to find a military post, and his dealings with a...

     - Jeffrey Perkins
    Jeffrey Perkins
    Jeffrey Perkins is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Dances with Wolves. He has worked on over 120 films since 1984.-External links:...

    , Bill W. Benton
    Bill W. Benton
    Bill W. Benton is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category. He has worked on over 110 films since 1980.-Selected filmography:...

    , Gregory H. Watkins
    Gregory H. Watkins
    Gregory H. Watkins is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category...

    , Russell Williams
    Russell Williams (sound engineer)
    Russell Williams is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound. He has worked on over 50 films since 1976.-Selected filmography:* Glory * Dances with Wolves -External links:...

    • Days of Thunder
      Days of Thunder
      Days of Thunder is a 1990 American auto racing film released by Paramount Pictures, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Tony Scott. The cast includes Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes and Michael Rooker. The film also features appearances...

       - Charles M. Wilborn
      Charles M. Wilborn
      Charles M. Wilborn is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Days of Thunder.-External links:...

      , Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Rick Kline
      Rick Kline
      Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Terms of Endearment * Silverado * Top Gun...

       and Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

    • Dick Tracy - Thomas Causey
      Thomas Causey
      Thomas Causey is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Dick Tracy.-External links:...

      , Chris Jenkins
      Chris Jenkins (sound engineer)
      Chris Jenkins is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for another two in the same category...

      , David E. Campbell
      David E. Campbell
      David E. Campbell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

       and Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 140 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:...

    • The Hunt for Red October
      The Hunt for Red October (film)
      The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. It was directed by John McTiernan and stars Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan...

       - Richard Bryce Goodman
      Richard Bryce Goodman
      Richard Bryce Goodman is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Hunt for Red October. He has worked on over 70 films since 1974.-External links:...

      , Richard Overton
      Richard Overton (sound engineer)
      Richard Overton is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Die Hard * The Abyss * The Hunt for Red October -External links:...

      , Kevin F. Cleary
      Kevin F. Cleary
      Kevin F. Cleary is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Die Hard * The Abyss * The Hunt for Red October -External links:...

       and Don J. Bassman
    • Total Recall
      Total Recall
      Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox & Mel Johnson, Jr.. It is based on the Philip K. Dick story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”...

       - Nelson Stoll
      Nelson Stoll
      Nelson Stoll is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 40 films since 1970.-External links:...

      , Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut
      Michael J. Kohut is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Meteor * Fame * Pennies from Heaven * WarGames...

      , Carlos Delarios
      Carlos Delarios
      Carlos Delarios is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 100 films since 1980.-Selected filmography:* WarGames * 2010 * RoboCop...

       and Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin
      Aaron Rochin is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for eight more in the same category.-Selected filmography:Rochin won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more:Won* The Deer Hunter...


  • 1991
    1991 in film
    The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York* Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.*November...

    : (64th
    64th Academy Awards
    The 64th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was the third consecutive to be hosted by Billy Crystal...

    )
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr.. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, and Edward Furlong...

     - Tom Johnson
    Tom Johnson (sound engineer)
    Tom Johnson is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

    , Gary Rydstrom
    Gary Rydstrom
    Gary Roger Rydstrom is an American sound designer and director. He has won seven Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies.-Career:...

    , Gary Summers, Lee Orloff
    Lee Orloff
    Lee Orloff is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 60 films since 1984.-Selected filmography:...

    • Backdraft
      Backdraft (film)
      Backdraft is a 1991 action thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. The film stars Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, and Robert De Niro. Jason Gedrick and J. T. Walsh co-star in the film...

       - Gary Summers, Randy Thom, Gary Rydstrom
      Gary Rydstrom
      Gary Roger Rydstrom is an American sound designer and director. He has won seven Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies.-Career:...

       and Glenn Williams
      Glenn Williams (sound engineer)
      Glenn Williams is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Backdraft.-External links:...

    • Beauty and the Beast
      Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
      Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third film of the Disney Renaissance period...

       - Terry Porter
      Terry Porter (sound engineer)
      Terry Porter is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 170 films since 1980.-Selected filmography:* Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home...

      , Mel Metcalfe
      Mel Metcalfe
      Mel Metcalfe is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home * Beauty and the Beast * Aladdin -External links:...

      , David J. Hudson
      David J. Hudson
      David J. Hudson is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home * Beauty and the Beast * Aladdin -External links:...

       and Doc Kane
      Doc Kane
      Doc Kane is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 300 films since 1984.-Selected filmography:* Beauty and the Beast * Aladdin...

    • JFK
      JFK (film)
      JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison .Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay...

       - Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler is a Motion Picture Sound Re-Recording Mixer. His Oscars are for the work done on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down, but Minkler has a varied career that includes films like Inglourious Basterds, JFK and Star Wars, as well television programs like The Pacific and John Adams...

      , Gregg Landaker
      Gregg Landaker
      Gregg Landaker is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

       and Tod A. Maitland
      Tod A. Maitland
      Tod A. Maitland is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Born on the Fourth of July * JFK...

    • The Silence of the Lambs - Tom Fleischman
      Tom Fleischman
      Tom Fleischman is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 170 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Reds * The Silence of the Lambs...

       and Christopher Newman

  • 1992
    1992 in film
    The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. -Top grossing films:-Awards:Academy AwardsGolden Globe AwardsNational Film Awards...

    : (65th
    65th Academy Awards
    The 65th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1993 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. This was the fourth consecutive show hosted by Billy Crystal.Unforgiven won four Oscars out of nine nominations including Best Picture.-Awards:...

    )
    The Last of the Mohicans
    The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)
    The Last of the Mohicans is a 1992 historical epic film set in 1757 during the French and Indian War and produced by Morgan Creek Pictures. It was directed by Michael Mann and based on James Fenimore Cooper's novel of the same name, although it owes more to George B. Seitz's 1936 film adaptation...

     - Chris Jenkins
    Chris Jenkins (sound engineer)
    Chris Jenkins is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for another two in the same category...

    , Doug Hemphill
    Doug Hemphill
    Doug Hemphill is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 140 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:...

    , Mark Smith
    Mark Smith (sound engineer)
    Mark Smith is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film The Last of the Mohicans. He has worked on over 90 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* The Last of the Mohicans -External links:...

    , Simon Kaye
    Simon Kaye
    Simon Kaye is a British sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

    • Aladdin - Terry Porter
      Terry Porter (sound engineer)
      Terry Porter is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 170 films since 1980.-Selected filmography:* Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home...

      , Mel Metcalfe
      Mel Metcalfe
      Mel Metcalfe is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home * Beauty and the Beast * Aladdin -External links:...

      , David J. Hudson
      David J. Hudson
      David J. Hudson is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.-Selected filmography:* Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home * Beauty and the Beast * Aladdin -External links:...

       and Doc Kane
      Doc Kane
      Doc Kane is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 300 films since 1984.-Selected filmography:* Beauty and the Beast * Aladdin...

    • A Few Good Men
      A Few Good Men
      A Few Good Men is a play by Aaron Sorkin, first produced on Broadway by David Brown in 1989. It tells the story of military lawyers at a court-martial who uncover a high-level conspiracy in the course of defending their clients, United States Marines accused of murder.It opened on Broadway at the...

       - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Rick Kline
      Rick Kline
      Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Terms of Endearment * Silverado * Top Gun...

       and Robert Eber
      Robert Eber
      Robert Eber is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film A Few Good Men. He has worked on over 50 films since 1978.-External links:...

    • Under Siege
      Under Siege
      Under Siege is a 1992 American action film directed by Andrew Davis and starring Steven Seagal as a former Navy SEAL who must stop a group of mercenaries, led by Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey, on a U.S. Navy battleship...

       - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Frank A. Montaño
      Frank A. Montaño
      Frank A. Montaño is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 100 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Under Siege * The Fugitive...

      , Rick Hart
      Rick Hart (sound engineer)
      Rick Hart is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Under Siege. He has worked on over 70 films since 1988.-External links:...

       and Scott D. Smith
      Scott D. Smith
      Scott D. Smith is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 50 films since 1975.-Selected filmography:* Under Siege * The Fugitive...

    • Unforgiven
      Unforgiven
      Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with a screenplay written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and turned to farming...

       - Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz
      Les Fresholtz was an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on over 110 films between 1968 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

      , Vern Poore
      Vern Poore
      Vern Poore is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category. He worked on over 60 films between 1975 and 1996.-Selected filmography:...

      , Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander
      Dick Alexander is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 170 films and television shows since 1975.-Selected filmography:...

       and Rob Young
      Rob Young (sound engineer)
      Rob Young is a Canadian sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Unforgiven. He has worked on over 100 films since 1975.-External links:...


  • 1993
    1993 in film
    The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:...

    : (66th
    66th Academy Awards
    The 66th Academy Awards were presented March 21, 1994, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was landmark in that it featured a female African American host for the first time, Whoopi Goldberg, and represented a direct contrast in edgy style from Billy Crystal who had hosted the...

    )
    Jurassic Park
    Jurassic Park (film)
    Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Martin Ferrero, and Bob Peck...

     - Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom
    Gary Rydstrom
    Gary Roger Rydstrom is an American sound designer and director. He has won seven Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies.-Career:...

    , Shawn Murphy
    Shawn Murphy (sound engineer)
    Shawn Murphy is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

    , Ron Judkins
    Ron Judkins
    Ron Judkins is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

    • Cliffhanger
      Cliffhanger (film)
      Cliffhanger is a 1993 American action film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone and John Lithgow. Stallone plays a mountain climber, who becomes embroiled in a failed heist set in a U.S. Treasury plane flying through the Rocky Mountains...

       - Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler is a Motion Picture Sound Re-Recording Mixer. His Oscars are for the work done on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down, but Minkler has a varied career that includes films like Inglourious Basterds, JFK and Star Wars, as well television programs like The Pacific and John Adams...

      , Bob Beemer
      Bob Beemer
      Robert Joseph Beemer, is an American sound mixer who won four Oscars.-Biography:Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955, at Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California...

       and Tim Cooney
      Tim Cooney
      Tim Cooney is an American production sound mixer.He graduated from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Baily clown college and has trained elephants for circuses, the St. Louis Zoo and the film business....

    • The Fugitive
      The Fugitive (1993 film)
      The Fugitive is a 1993 American thriller film based on the television series of the same name. The film was directed by Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. The film was one of the few movies associated with a television series to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best...

       - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Michael Herbick
      Michael Herbick
      Michael Herbick is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 90 films since 1988.-Selected filmography:* The Fugitive * Clear and Present Danger...

      , Frank A. Montaño
      Frank A. Montaño
      Frank A. Montaño is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 100 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Under Siege * The Fugitive...

       and Scott D. Smith
      Scott D. Smith
      Scott D. Smith is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 50 films since 1975.-Selected filmography:* Under Siege * The Fugitive...

    • Geronimo: An American Legend
      Geronimo: An American Legend
      Geronimo: An American Legend is a 1993 film, starring Wes Studi as Geronimo, Jason Patric as 1st Lt. Charles B. Gatewood, Gene Hackman as Brig. Gen. George Crook, Robert Duvall as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber, and Matt Damon as 2nd Lt. Britton Davis. The film was directed by Walter Hill from a...

       - Chris Carpenter
      Chris Carpenter (sound engineer)
      Chris Carpenter is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 130 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:* Geronimo: An American Legend * Independence Day...

      , Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 140 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:...

      , Bill W. Benton
      Bill W. Benton
      Bill W. Benton is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category. He has worked on over 110 films since 1980.-Selected filmography:...

       and Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 60 films since 1984.-Selected filmography:...

    • Schindler's List
      Schindler's List
      Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Steve Pederson
      Steve Pederson (sound engineer)
      Steve Pederson is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another in the same category. He has worked on over 130 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:...

      , Scott Millan and Ron Judkins
      Ron Judkins
      Ron Judkins is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...


  • 1994
    1994 in film
    1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...

    : (67th
    67th Academy Awards
    The 67th Academy Awards, honoring the best films of 1994, were held on March 27, 1995 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by well-known comedian and talk show host David Letterman....

    )
    Speed - Gregg Landaker
    Gregg Landaker
    Gregg Landaker is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

    , Steve Maslow
    Steve Maslow
    Steve Maslow is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

    , Bob Beemer
    Bob Beemer
    Robert Joseph Beemer, is an American sound mixer who won four Oscars.-Biography:Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955, at Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California...

    , David MacMillan
    David MacMillan (sound engineer)
    David MacMillan is an American sound engineer. He has won three Academy Awards for Best Sound. He has worked on over 70 films since 1973.-Selected filmography:* The Right Stuff * Speed * Apollo 13 -External links:...

    • Clear and Present Danger
      Clear and Present Danger (film)
      Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 film directed by Phillip Noyce, based on the book of the same name by Tom Clancy. It is a subsequent release to the 1992 film Patriot Games, which in itself is a subsequent release to the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October.It is the last film to feature Harrison...

       - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Michael Herbick
      Michael Herbick
      Michael Herbick is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 90 films since 1988.-Selected filmography:* The Fugitive * Clear and Present Danger...

      , Frank A. Montaño
      Frank A. Montaño
      Frank A. Montaño is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 100 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Under Siege * The Fugitive...

       and Art Rochester
      Art Rochester
      Art Rochester is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on 65 films since 1970.-Selected filmography:* The Conversation...

    • Forrest Gump
      Forrest Gump
      Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic comedy-drama romance film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Gary Sinise...

       - Randy Thom, Tom Johnson
      Tom Johnson (sound engineer)
      Tom Johnson is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

      , Dennis S. Sands
      Dennis S. Sands
      Dennis S. Sands is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 240 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:* Forrest Gump * Contact * Cast Away...

       and William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:* Back to the Future * Top Gun...

    • Legends of the Fall
      Legends of the Fall
      Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction , and Best...

       - Paul Massey
      Paul Massey (sound engineer)
      Paul Massey is a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 150 films since 1982.-Selected filmography:* Legends of the Fall...

      , David E. Campbell
      David E. Campbell
      David E. Campbell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

      , Chris David
      Chris David (sound engineer)
      Chris David is a British sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. for the film Legends of the Fall. He has worked on over 170 films since 1982.-External links:...

       and Douglas Ganton
      Douglas Ganton
      Douglas Ganton is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. for the film Legends of the Fall. He has worked on over 70 films since 1975.-External links:...

    • The Shawshank Redemption
      The Shawshank Redemption
      The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman....

       - Robert J. Litt
      Robert J. Litt
      Robert J. Litt is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 160 films between 1964 and 2000.-Selected filmography:* Mississippi Burning * The Shawshank Redemption...

      , Elliot Tyson
      Elliot Tyson
      Elliot Tyson is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for three more in the same category...

      , Michael Herbick
      Michael Herbick
      Michael Herbick is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 90 films since 1988.-Selected filmography:* The Fugitive * Clear and Present Danger...

       and Willie D. Burton

  • 1995
    1995 in film
    -Top grossing films:-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.* March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation....

    : (68th
    68th Academy Awards
    The 68th Academy Awards were held on March 25, 1996, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The show was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. The ceremony was watched 44.48 million viewers, with 30.5% households watching...

    )
    Apollo 13
    Apollo 13 (film)
    Apollo 13 is a 1995 American drama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr...

     - Rick Dior
    Rick Dior
    Rick Dior was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Apollo 13. He worked on over 80 films between 1970 and 1998.-External links:...

    , Steve Pederson
    Steve Pederson (sound engineer)
    Steve Pederson is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another in the same category. He has worked on over 130 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:...

    , Scott Millan, David MacMillan
    David MacMillan (sound engineer)
    David MacMillan is an American sound engineer. He has won three Academy Awards for Best Sound. He has worked on over 70 films since 1973.-Selected filmography:* The Right Stuff * Speed * Apollo 13 -External links:...

    • Batman Forever
      Batman Forever
      Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is a sequel to Batman Returns , with Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton as Batman...

       - Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell
      Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category...

      , Frank A. Montaño
      Frank A. Montaño
      Frank A. Montaño is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 100 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Under Siege * The Fugitive...

      , Michael Herbick
      Michael Herbick
      Michael Herbick is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 90 films since 1988.-Selected filmography:* The Fugitive * Clear and Present Danger...

       and Petur Hliddal
      Petur Hliddal
      Petur Hliddal is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:* Batman Forever * The Aviator...

    • Braveheart
      Braveheart
      Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama war film directed by and starring Mel Gibson. The film was written for the screen and then novelized by Randall Wallace...

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Scott Millan, Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer is an American sound engineer. She has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. She has worked on over 120 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Braveheart * Evita * L.A...

       and Brian Simmons
      Brian Simmons (sound engineer)
      Brian Simmons is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Braveheart. He has worked on over 100 films since 1966.-External links:...

    • Crimson Tide
      Crimson Tide (film)
      The film has uncredited additional writing by Quentin Tarantino, much of it being the pop-culture reference-laden dialogue.The U.S. Navy objected to many of the elements in the script — particularly the aspect of mutiny on board a U.S. naval vessel — and as such, the film was produced...

       - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Rick Kline
      Rick Kline
      Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Terms of Endearment * Silverado * Top Gun...

      , Gregory H. Watkins
      Gregory H. Watkins
      Gregory H. Watkins is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category...

       and William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:* Back to the Future * Top Gun...

    • Waterworld
      Waterworld
      Waterworld is a 1995 post-apocalyptic science fiction film. The film was directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy. It is based on Rader's original 1986 screenplay and stars Kevin Costner, who also produced it. It was distributed by Universal Pictures...

       - Steve Maslow
      Steve Maslow
      Steve Maslow is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

      , Gregg Landaker
      Gregg Landaker
      Gregg Landaker is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

       and Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound...


  • 1996
    1996 in film
    Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...

    : (69th
    69th Academy Awards
    The 69th Academy Awards were dominated by movies produced by independent studios, financed outside of mainstream Hollywood, leading to 1996 being dubbed "The Year of the Independents". All but one of the nominees for Best Picture were low-budget independent movies The 69th Academy Awards were...

    )
    The English Patient
    The English Patient (film)
    The English Patient is a 1996 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The film, written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture...

     - Walter Murch
    Walter Murch
    Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor and sound designer.-Early life:Murch was born in New York City, New York, the son of Katharine and Canadian-born Walter Tandy Murch , a painter. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961...

    , Mark Berger
    Mark Berger (sound engineer)
    Mark Berger is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound. He has worked on over 160 films since 1973.-Selected filmography:* Apocalypse Now * The Right Stuff * Amadeus...

    , David Parker
    David Parker (sound engineer)
    David Parker is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for another four in the same category...

    , Chris Newman
    • Evita
      Evita (film)
      Evita is the 1996 film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name based on the life of Eva Perón. It was directed by Alan Parker and written by Parker and Oliver Stone. It starred Madonna, Antonio Banderas, and Jonathan Pryce...

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer is an American sound engineer. She has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. She has worked on over 120 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Braveheart * Evita * L.A...

       and Ken Weston
      Ken Weston
      Ken Weston was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another in the same category...

    • Independence Day
      Independence Day (film)
      Independence Day is a 1996 science fiction film about an alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance counterattack on July 4 – the same...

       - Chris Carpenter
      Chris Carpenter (sound engineer)
      Chris Carpenter is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 130 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:* Geronimo: An American Legend * Independence Day...

      , Bill W. Benton
      Bill W. Benton
      Bill W. Benton is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category. He has worked on over 110 films since 1980.-Selected filmography:...

      , Bob Beemer
      Bob Beemer
      Robert Joseph Beemer, is an American sound mixer who won four Oscars.-Biography:Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955, at Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California...

       and Jeff Wexler
      Jeff Wexler
      Jeff Wexler is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 70 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:* Independence Day * The Last Samurai -External links:...

    • The Rock
      The Rock (film)
      The Rock is a 1996 action film that primarily takes place on Alcatraz Island and in the San Francisco Bay area. It was directed by Michael Bay and stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris. It was produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and released through Hollywood Pictures. The film...

       - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

       and Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound...

    • Twister - Steve Maslow
      Steve Maslow
      Steve Maslow is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

      , Gregg Landaker
      Gregg Landaker
      Gregg Landaker is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

      , Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

       and Geoffrey Patterson
      Geoffrey Patterson
      Geoffrey Patterson is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 50 films since 1985.-Selected filmography:* Twister...


  • 1997
    1997 in film
    -Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

    : (70th
    70th Academy Awards
    The 70th Academy Awards were noted for their high ratings and the 11 wins obtained by the Best Picture Titanic. Billy Crystal hosted the ceremony for the sixth time, and received an Emmy award for his performance....

    )
    Titanic
    Titanic (1997 film)
    Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...

     - Gary Rydstrom
    Gary Rydstrom
    Gary Roger Rydstrom is an American sound designer and director. He has won seven Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies.-Career:...

    , Tom Johnson
    Tom Johnson (sound engineer)
    Tom Johnson is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

    , Gary Summers, Mark Ulano
    Mark Ulano
    Mark Ulano is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another in the same category...

    • Air Force One
      Air Force One (film)
      Air Force One is a 1997 American action-thriller film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close, and also features Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell and Paul Guilfoyle...

       - Paul Massey
      Paul Massey (sound engineer)
      Paul Massey is a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 150 films since 1982.-Selected filmography:* Legends of the Fall...

      , Rick Kline
      Rick Kline
      Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Terms of Endearment * Silverado * Top Gun...

      , Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 140 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:...

       and Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound...

    • Con Air
      Con Air
      Con Air is an Academy Award–nominated 1997 American action-thriller film directed by Simon West and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It stars Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich...

       - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

       and Art Rochester
      Art Rochester
      Art Rochester is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on 65 films since 1970.-Selected filmography:* The Conversation...

    • Contact
      Contact (film)
      Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Both Sagan and wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film adaptation of Contact....

       - Randy Thom, Tom Johnson
      Tom Johnson (sound engineer)
      Tom Johnson is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

      , Dennis S. Sands
      Dennis S. Sands
      Dennis S. Sands is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 240 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:* Forrest Gump * Contact * Cast Away...

       and William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:* Back to the Future * Top Gun...

    • L.A. Confidential
      L.A. Confidential (film)
      L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American film based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel of the same title, the third book in his L.A. Quartet. Both the book and the film tell the story of a group of LAPD officers in the 1950s, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity...

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer is an American sound engineer. She has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. She has worked on over 120 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Braveheart * Evita * L.A...

       and Kirk Francis

  • 1998
    1998 in film
    -Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...

    : (71st
    71st Academy Awards
    The 71st Academy Awards ceremony, Sunday, March 21, 1999, was the last to take place at Los Angeles County Music Center, and was Whoopi Goldberg's third time hosting the Awards. It was the first time the ceremony took place on a Sunday....

    ) Saving Private Ryan
    Saving Private Ryan
    Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depicts the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944....

     -
    Gary Rydstrom
    Gary Rydstrom
    Gary Roger Rydstrom is an American sound designer and director. He has won seven Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies.-Career:...

    , Gary Summers, Andy Nelson
    Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
    Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

    , Ron Judkins
    Ron Judkins
    Ron Judkins is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

    • Armageddon - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

       and Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound...

    • The Mask of Zorro
      The Mask of Zorro
      The Mask of Zorro is a 1998 American swashbuckler film based on the Zorro character created by Johnston McCulley. It was directed by Martin Campbell and stars Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stuart Wilson...

       - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

       and Pud Cusack
      Pud Cusack
      Pud Cusack is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Mask of Zorro. He has worked on over 50 films since 1988.-External links:...

    • Shakespeare in Love
      Shakespeare in Love
      Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 British-American comedy film directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard....

       - Robin O'Donoghue
      Robin O'Donoghue
      Robin O'Donoghueis a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 130 films since 1971.-External links:...

      , Dominic Lester
      Dominic Lester
      Dominic Lester is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Shakespeare in Love. He has worked on over 50 films since 1987.-External links:...

       and Peter Glossop
      Peter Glossop (sound engineer)
      Peter Glossop is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Shakespeare in Love. He has worked on over 70 films since 1971.-External links:...

    • The Thin Red Line
      The Thin Red Line (1998 film)
      The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. It portrays men in: C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; in particular those soldiers played by Sean Penn, Jim...

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer is an American sound engineer. She has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. She has worked on over 120 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Braveheart * Evita * L.A...

       and Paul Brincat
      Paul Brincat
      Paul Brincat is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Thin Red Line. He has worked on over 40 films since 1971.-External links:...


  • 1999
    1999 in film
    The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...

    : (72nd
    72nd Academy Awards
    The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony took place at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, and was Billy Crystal's seventh time hosting the Awards. The ceremony attracted 46.53 million viewers, an audience 3.7% bigger than the previous ceremony.The Academy Awards ceremony was dominated by two films...

    ) The Matrix
    The Matrix
    The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...

     -
    John T. Reitz
    John T. Reitz
    John T. Reitz is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another three in the same category. He has worked on over 180 films since 1976.-Selected filmography:...

    , Gregg Rudloff
    Gregg Rudloff
    Gregg Rudloff is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category...

    , David E. Campbell
    David E. Campbell
    David E. Campbell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

    , David Lee
    David Lee (Australian sound engineer)
    David Lee is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film The Matrix. He has worked on over 35 films since 1981.-External links:...

    • The Green Mile
      The Green Mile (film)
      The Green Mile is a 1999 American drama film directed by Frank Darabont and adapted by him from the 1996 Stephen King novel of the same name...

       - Robert J. Litt
      Robert J. Litt
      Robert J. Litt is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 160 films between 1964 and 2000.-Selected filmography:* Mississippi Burning * The Shawshank Redemption...

      , Elliot Tyson
      Elliot Tyson
      Elliot Tyson is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for three more in the same category...

      , Michael Herbick
      Michael Herbick
      Michael Herbick is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 90 films since 1988.-Selected filmography:* The Fugitive * Clear and Present Danger...

       and Willie D. Burton
    • The Insider
      The Insider (film)
      The Insider is a 1999 film based on the true story of a 60 Minutes television series segment, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand. The 60 Minutes story originally aired in November 1995 in an altered form because of objections by CBS’ then-owner, Laurence Tisch, who...

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 140 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:...

       and Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 60 films since 1984.-Selected filmography:...

    • The Mummy
      The Mummy (1999 film)
      The Mummy is a 1999 American adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah and Kevin J. O'Connor, with Arnold Vosloo in the title role as the reanimated mummy. The film features substantial dialogue in ancient Egyptian language, spoken...

       - Leslie Shatz
      Leslie Shatz
      Leslie Shatz is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Mummy. He has worked on over 140 films since 1971.-External links:...

      , Chris Carpenter
      Chris Carpenter (sound engineer)
      Chris Carpenter is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 130 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:* Geronimo: An American Legend * Independence Day...

      , Rick Kline
      Rick Kline
      Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Terms of Endearment * Silverado * Top Gun...

       and Chris Munro
      Chris Munro
      David Lee is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another in the same category. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:...

    • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
      Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
      Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the fourth film to be released in the Star Wars saga, as the first of a three-part prequel to the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as the first film in the saga in terms...

       - Gary Rydstrom
      Gary Rydstrom
      Gary Roger Rydstrom is an American sound designer and director. He has won seven Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies.-Career:...

      , Tom Johnson
      Tom Johnson (sound engineer)
      Tom Johnson is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

      , Shawn Murphy
      Shawn Murphy (sound engineer)
      Shawn Murphy is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

       and John Midgley
      John Midgley
      John Midgley is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 70 films since 1977.-Selected filmography:* Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace...


2000s

  • 2000: Gladiator
    Gladiator (2000 film)
    Gladiator is a 2000 historical epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays the loyal Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed...

     - Bob Beemer
    Bob Beemer
    Robert Joseph Beemer, is an American sound mixer who won four Oscars.-Biography:Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955, at Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California...

    , Scott Millan and Ken Weston
    Ken Weston
    Ken Weston was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another in the same category...

    • Cast Away
      Cast Away
      Cast Away is a 2000 drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx employee stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific. The film depicts his successful attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo, as well as his...

       - Randy Thom, Tom Johnson
      Tom Johnson (sound engineer)
      Tom Johnson is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

      , Dennis S. Sands
      Dennis S. Sands
      Dennis S. Sands is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 240 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:* Forrest Gump * Contact * Cast Away...

       and William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:* Back to the Future * Top Gun...

    • The Patriot
      The Patriot (2000 film)
      The Patriot is a 2000 historical war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, and Heath Ledger. It was produced by the Mutual Film Company and Centropolis Entertainment and was distributed by Columbia Pictures...

       - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

       and Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 60 films since 1984.-Selected filmography:...

    • The Perfect Storm
      The Perfect Storm (film)
      The Perfect Storm is a 2000 dramatic disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It is an adaptation of the 1997 non-fiction book of the same title by Sebastian Junger about the crew of the Andrea Gail that got caught in the Perfect Storm of 1991. The film stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg,...

       - John T. Reitz
      John T. Reitz
      John T. Reitz is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another three in the same category. He has worked on over 180 films since 1976.-Selected filmography:...

      , Gregg Rudloff
      Gregg Rudloff
      Gregg Rudloff is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category...

      , David E. Campbell
      David E. Campbell
      David E. Campbell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

       and Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester
      Keith A. Wester was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound...

    • U-571
      U-571 (film)
      U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry...

       - Steve Maslow
      Steve Maslow
      Steve Maslow is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

      , Gregg Landaker
      Gregg Landaker
      Gregg Landaker is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category...

      , Rick Kline
      Rick Kline
      Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Terms of Endearment * Silverado * Top Gun...

       and Ivan Sharrock
      Ivan Sharrock
      Ivan Sharrock is a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for three more in the same category...


  • 2001: Black Hawk Down - Michael Minkler
    Michael Minkler
    Michael Minkler is a Motion Picture Sound Re-Recording Mixer. His Oscars are for the work done on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down, but Minkler has a varied career that includes films like Inglourious Basterds, JFK and Star Wars, as well television programs like The Pacific and John Adams...

    , Chris Munro
    Chris Munro
    David Lee is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another in the same category. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:...

     and Myron Nettinga
    Myron Nettinga
    Myron Nettinga is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Black Hawk Down. He has worked on over 100 films since 1992.-External links:...

    • Amélie
      Amélie
      Amélie is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre...

       - Vincent Arnardi
      Vincent Arnardi
      Vincent Arnardi is a French sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Amélie. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-External links:...

      , Guillaume Leriche
      Guillaume Leriche
      Guillaume Leriche is a French sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Amélie. He has worked on over 70 films since 2000.-External links:...

       and Jean Umansky
      Jean Umansky
      Jean Umansky is a French sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Amélie. He has worked on over 50 films since 1980.-External links:...

    • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Christopher Boyes
      Christopher Boyes
      Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine. He has worked on over 70 films since 1991.-Academy Awards:Boyes has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine:Won...

      , Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category...

      , Gethin Creagh
      Gethin Creagh
      Gethin Creagh is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. He has worked on over 100 films since 1976.-External links:...

       and Hammond Peek
      Hammond Peek
      Hammond Peek is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category.-Selected filmography:Peek has won two Academy Awards and has been nominated for another two:Won...

    • Moulin Rouge!
      Moulin Rouge!
      Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème...

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer is an American sound engineer. She has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. She has worked on over 120 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Braveheart * Evita * L.A...

      , Roger Savage
      Roger Savage
      Roger Savage is an Australian sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Moulin Rouge! He has worked on over 80 films since 1971.-External links:...

       and Guntis Sics
      Guntis Sics
      Guntis Sics is an Australian sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Moulin Rouge! He has worked on over 30 films since 1991.-External links:...

    • Pearl Harbor
      Pearl Harbor (film)
      Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American action drama war film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Randall Wallace, who wrote the screenplay...

       - Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

      , Peter J. Devlin
      Peter J. Devlin
      Peter J. Devlin is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 50 films since 1988.-Selected filmography:* Pearl Harbor * Transformers...

       and Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...


  • 2002: Chicago
    Chicago (2002 film)
    Chicago is a 2002 musical film adapted from the satirical stage musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Jazz-age Chicago....

     - Michael Minkler
    Michael Minkler
    Michael Minkler is a Motion Picture Sound Re-Recording Mixer. His Oscars are for the work done on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down, but Minkler has a varied career that includes films like Inglourious Basterds, JFK and Star Wars, as well television programs like The Pacific and John Adams...

    , Dominick Tavella
    Dominick Tavella
    Dominick Tavella is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Chicago. He has worked on over 180 films since 1981.-External links:...

     and David Lee
    David Lee (American sound engineer)
    David Lee was a American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Chicago. He worked on over 60 films between 1973 and 2008.-External links:...

    • Gangs of New York
      Gangs of New York
      Gangs of New York is a 2002 historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. The film was inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book, The Gangs of New...

       - Tom Fleischman
      Tom Fleischman
      Tom Fleischman is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 170 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Reds * The Silence of the Lambs...

      , Eugene Gearty
      Eugene Gearty
      Eugene Gearty is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Gangs of New York. He has worked on over 80 films since 1983.-External links:...

       and Ivan Sharrock
      Ivan Sharrock
      Ivan Sharrock is a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for three more in the same category...

    • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Christopher Boyes
      Christopher Boyes
      Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine. He has worked on over 70 films since 1991.-Academy Awards:Boyes has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine:Won...

      , Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category...

      , Michael Hedges
      Michael Hedges (sound engineer)
      Michael Hedges is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another in the same category...

       and Hammond Peek
      Hammond Peek
      Hammond Peek is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category.-Selected filmography:Peek has won two Academy Awards and has been nominated for another two:Won...

    • Road to Perdition
      Road to Perdition
      Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime film directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins. The film stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig...

       - Scott Millan, Bob Beemer
      Bob Beemer
      Robert Joseph Beemer, is an American sound mixer who won four Oscars.-Biography:Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955, at Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California...

       and John Pritchett
    • Spider-Man
      Spider-Man (film)
      Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film, the first in the Spider-Man film series based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It was directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Koepp...

       - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

       and Ed Novick
      Ed Novick
      Ed Novick is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category. He has worked on over 60 films since 1982.-Selected filmography:...


  • 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy-drama film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...

     - Christopher Boyes
    Christopher Boyes
    Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine. He has worked on over 70 films since 1991.-Academy Awards:Boyes has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine:Won...

    , Michael Semanick
    Michael Semanick
    Michael Semanick is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category...

    , Michael Hedges
    Michael Hedges (sound engineer)
    Michael Hedges is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another in the same category...

     and Hammond Peek
    Hammond Peek
    Hammond Peek is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category.-Selected filmography:Peek has won two Academy Awards and has been nominated for another two:Won...

    • The Last Samurai
      The Last Samurai
      The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic drama film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay based on a story by John Logan. The film was inspired by a project developed by writer and director Vincent Ward, who had previously filmed the movie in 1990, starring...

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer is an American sound engineer. She has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. She has worked on over 120 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Braveheart * Evita * L.A...

       and Jeff Wexler
      Jeff Wexler
      Jeff Wexler is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 70 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:* Independence Day * The Last Samurai -External links:...

    • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
      Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
      Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir, starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin and released by 20th Century Fox, Miramax Films and Universal Studios...

       - Paul Massey
      Paul Massey (sound engineer)
      Paul Massey is a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 150 films since 1982.-Selected filmography:* Legends of the Fall...

      , Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 140 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:...

       and Art Rochester
      Art Rochester
      Art Rochester is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on 65 films since 1970.-Selected filmography:* The Conversation...

    • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
      Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
      Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 adventure fantasy film based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney theme parks. It was directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

       - Christopher Boyes
      Christopher Boyes
      Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine. He has worked on over 70 films since 1991.-Academy Awards:Boyes has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine:Won...

      , David Parker
      David Parker (sound engineer)
      David Parker is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for another four in the same category...

      , David E. Campbell
      David E. Campbell
      David E. Campbell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

       and Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 60 films since 1984.-Selected filmography:...

    • Seabiscuit
      Seabiscuit (film)
      Seabiscuit is a 2003 American biographical film based on the best-selling non-fiction book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand...

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer is an American sound engineer. She has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. She has worked on over 120 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Braveheart * Evita * L.A...

       and Tod A. Maitland
      Tod A. Maitland
      Tod A. Maitland is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Born on the Fourth of July * JFK...


  • 2004: Ray
    Ray (film)
    Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.Charles was set to...

     - Scott Millan, Greg Orloff
    Greg Orloff
    Greg Orloff is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

    , Bob Beemer
    Bob Beemer
    Robert Joseph Beemer, is an American sound mixer who won four Oscars.-Biography:Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955, at Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California...

     and Steve Cantamessa
    Steve Cantamessa
    Steve Cantamessa is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Ray. He has worked on over 60 films since 1981.-External links:...

    • The Aviator - Tom Fleischman
      Tom Fleischman
      Tom Fleischman is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 170 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Reds * The Silence of the Lambs...

       and Petur Hliddal
      Petur Hliddal
      Petur Hliddal is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:* Batman Forever * The Aviator...

    • The Incredibles
      The Incredibles
      The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated action-comedy superhero film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their powers. It was written and directed by Brad Bird, a former director and executive consultant of The Simpsons, and was produced by Pixar and distributed by...

       - Randy Thom, Gary Rizzo
      Gary Rizzo
      Gary Rizzo is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

       and Doc Kane
      Doc Kane
      Doc Kane is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 300 films since 1984.-Selected filmography:* Beauty and the Beast * Aladdin...

    • The Polar Express
      The Polar Express (film)
      The Polar Express is a 2004 motion capture computer-animated film based on the children's book of the same title by Chris Van Allsburg. Written, produced, and directed by Robert Zemeckis, the human characters in the film were animated using live action performance capture technique, with the...

       - Randy Thom, Tom Johnson
      Tom Johnson (sound engineer)
      Tom Johnson is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

      , Dennis S. Sands
      Dennis S. Sands
      Dennis S. Sands is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 240 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:* Forrest Gump * Contact * Cast Away...

       and William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan
      William B. Kaplan is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.-Selected filmography:* Back to the Future * Top Gun...

    • Spider-Man 2
      Spider-Man 2
      Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi, written by Alvin Sargent and developed by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon. It is the second film in the Spider-Man film franchise based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man...

        - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

      , Jeffrey J. Haboush
      Jeffrey J. Haboush
      Jeffrey J. Haboush is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 150 films since 1985.-External links:...

       and Joseph Geisinger
      Joseph Geisinger
      Joseph Geisinger is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Spider-Man 2. He has worked on over 50 films since 1980.-External links:...


  • 2005: King Kong
    King Kong (2005 film)
    King Kong is a 2005 fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson. It is a remake of the 1933 film of the same name and stars Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody. Andy Serkis, through performance capture, portrays Kong....

     - Christopher Boyes
    Christopher Boyes
    Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine. He has worked on over 70 films since 1991.-Academy Awards:Boyes has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine:Won...

    , Michael Semanick
    Michael Semanick
    Michael Semanick is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category...

    , Michael Hedges
    Michael Hedges (sound engineer)
    Michael Hedges is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another in the same category...

    , Hammond Peek
    Hammond Peek
    Hammond Peek is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category.-Selected filmography:Peek has won two Academy Awards and has been nominated for another two:Won...

    • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
      The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
      The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a 2005 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Andrew Adamson and based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published and second chronological novel in C. S. Lewis's children's epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of...

        - Terry Porter
      Terry Porter (sound engineer)
      Terry Porter is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 170 films since 1980.-Selected filmography:* Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home...

      , Dean A. Zupancic
      Dean A. Zupancic
      Dean A. Zupancic is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He has worked on over 120 films since 1986....

       and Tony Johnson
      Tony Johnson (sound engineer)
      Tony Johnson is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 30 films since 1990.-Selected filmography:* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe...

    • Memoirs of a Geisha
      Memoirs of a Geisha (film)
      Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment and by Douglas Wick's Red Wagon Productions. It was directed by Rob Marshall. It was released in the United States on December 9, 2005 by...

       - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

      , Rick Kline
      Rick Kline
      Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-Selected filmography:* Terms of Endearment * Silverado * Top Gun...

       and John Pritchett
      John Pritchett (sound engineer)
      John Pritchett is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 90 films since 1981.-Selected filmography:* Road to Perdition...

    • Walk the Line
      Walk the Line
      Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash...

       - Paul Massey
      Paul Massey (sound engineer)
      Paul Massey is a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 150 films since 1982.-Selected filmography:* Legends of the Fall...

      , Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill
      Doug Hemphill is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 140 films since 1979.-Selected filmography:...

       and Peter Kurland
    • War of the Worlds
      War of the Worlds (2005 film)
      War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction film adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp. It is one of three film adaptations of War of the Worlds released that year, alongside The Asylum's version and...

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer is an American sound engineer. She has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. She has worked on over 120 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Braveheart * Evita * L.A...

       and Ron Judkins
      Ron Judkins
      Ron Judkins is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...


  • 2006: Dreamgirls
    Dreamgirls (film)
    Dreamgirls is a 2006 musical drama film, directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures. The film debuted in three special road show engagements beginning December 15, 2006 before its nationwide release on December 25, 2006...

     - Michael Minkler
    Michael Minkler
    Michael Minkler is a Motion Picture Sound Re-Recording Mixer. His Oscars are for the work done on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down, but Minkler has a varied career that includes films like Inglourious Basterds, JFK and Star Wars, as well television programs like The Pacific and John Adams...

    , Bob Beemer
    Bob Beemer
    Robert Joseph Beemer, is an American sound mixer who won four Oscars.-Biography:Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955, at Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California...

     and Willie D. Burton
    • Apocalypto
      Apocalypto
      Apocalypto is a 2006 American epic action-adventure film directed by Mel Gibson. Set in Yucatan, Mexico, during the declining period of the Maya civilization, Apocalypto depicts the journey of a Mesoamerican tribesman who must escape human sacrifice and rescue his family after the capture and...

       - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

       and Fernando Cámara
      Fernando Cámara
      Fernando Cámara is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Apocalypto. He has worked on over 30 films since 1979.-External links:...

    • Blood Diamond
      Blood Diamond (film)
      Blood Diamond is a 2006 political thriller film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou...

       - Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

      , Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer is an American sound engineer. She has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. She has worked on over 120 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Braveheart * Evita * L.A...

       and Ivan Sharrock
      Ivan Sharrock
      Ivan Sharrock is a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for three more in the same category...

    • Flags of Our Fathers
      Flags of Our Fathers (film)
      is a 2006 American war film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis. It is based on the book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman who were involved...

       - John T. Reitz
      John T. Reitz
      John T. Reitz is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another three in the same category. He has worked on over 180 films since 1976.-Selected filmography:...

      , David E. Campbell
      David E. Campbell
      David E. Campbell is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more in the same category...

      , Gregg Rudloff
      Gregg Rudloff
      Gregg Rudloff is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category...

       and Walt Martin
      Walt Martin
      Walt Martin is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Flags of Our Fathers. He has worked on over 70 films since 1984.-External links:...

    • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
      Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
      Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 adventure fantasy film and the second film of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, following Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl . It was directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by...

       - Paul Massey
      Paul Massey (sound engineer)
      Paul Massey is a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 150 films since 1982.-Selected filmography:* Legends of the Fall...

      , Christopher Boyes
      Christopher Boyes
      Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine. He has worked on over 70 films since 1991.-Academy Awards:Boyes has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine:Won...

       and Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff
      Lee Orloff is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category. He has worked on over 60 films since 1984.-Selected filmography:...


  • 2007: The Bourne Ultimatum
    The Bourne Ultimatum (film)
    The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 American spy film directed by Paul Greengrass and loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same title. This film is the third in the Bourne film series, being preceded by The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy...

     - Scott Millan, David Parker
    David Parker (sound engineer)
    David Parker is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for another four in the same category...

     and Kirk Francis
    • 3:10 to Yuma
      3:10 to Yuma (2007 film)
      3:10 to Yuma is the 2007 remake of the 1957 film of the same name, making it the second adaptation of Elmore Leonard's short story Three-Ten to Yuma. It is directed by James Mangold and produced by Cathy Konrad, and stars Academy Award winners Russell Crowe and Christian Bale in the lead roles. ...

       - Paul Massey
      Paul Massey (sound engineer)
      Paul Massey is a British sound engineer. He has been nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 150 films since 1982.-Selected filmography:* Legends of the Fall...

      , David Giammarco
      David Giammarco (sound engineer)
      David Giammarco is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film 3:10 to Yuma. He has worked on over 70 films since 1985.-External links:...

       and Jim Stuebe
      Jim Stuebe
      Jim Stuebe is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film 3:10 to Yuma. He has worked on over 60 films since 1978.-External links:...

    • No Country for Old Men
      No Country for Old Men (film)
      No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American crime thriller directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin. The film was adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name...

       - Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey
      Craig Berkey
      Craig Berkey is a Canadian sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards. He has worked on over 80 films since 1990.-Selected filmography:* No Country for Old Men - Best Sound...

      , Greg Orloff
      Greg Orloff
      Greg Orloff is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

       and Peter Kurland
    • Ratatouille
      Ratatouille (film)
      Ratatouille is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the eighth film produced by Pixar, and was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005...

       - Randy Thom, Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category...

       and Doc Kane
      Doc Kane
      Doc Kane is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 300 films since 1984.-Selected filmography:* Beauty and the Beast * Aladdin...

    • Transformers - Kevin O'Connell
      Kevin O'Connell (sound re-recording mixer)
      Kevin O'Connell is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".-Awards and...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

       and Peter J. Devlin
      Peter J. Devlin
      Peter J. Devlin is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 50 films since 1988.-Selected filmography:* Pearl Harbor * Transformers...


  • 2008: Slumdog Millionaire
    Slumdog Millionaire
    Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British epic romantic drama adventure film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup...

     - Ian Tapp
    Ian Tapp
    Ian Tapp is an English sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Slumdog Millionaire. He has worked on over 80 films since 1987.-External links:...

    , Richard Pryke
    Richard Pryke
    Richard Pryke is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Slumdog Millionaire. He has worked on over 80 films since 1993.-External links:...

     and Resul Pookutty
    Resul Pookutty
    Resul Pookutty is an Indian film sound designer, sound editor and mixer. He, along with Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for the film Slumdog Millionaire...

    • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
      The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
      The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy-drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald...

       - David Parker
      David Parker (sound engineer)
      David Parker is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for another four in the same category...

      , Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category...

      , Ren Klyce
      Ren Klyce
      Ren Klyce is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards; two for Best Sound and one for Best Sound Editing.-Selected filmography:* Fight Club - Best Sound Editing...

       and Mark Weingarten
      Mark Weingarten
      Mark Weingarten is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button...

    • The Dark Knight
      The Dark Knight (film)
      The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...

       - Lora Hirschberg
      Lora Hirschberg
      Lora Hirschberg is an American sound engineer. She has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another in the same category. She has worked on over 100 films since 1990.-Selected filmography:...

      , Gary Rizzo
      Gary Rizzo
      Gary Rizzo is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

       and Ed Novick
      Ed Novick
      Ed Novick is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category. He has worked on over 60 films since 1982.-Selected filmography:...

    • WALL-E
      WALL-E
      WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...

       - Tom Myers
      Tom Myers (sound engineer)
      Tom Myers is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards; one for Best Sound and two for Best Sound Editing. He has worked on over 70 films since 1990.-Selected filmography:* WALL-E - Best Sound...

      , Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category...

       and Ben Burtt
      Ben Burtt
      Benjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. is an American sound designer who has worked on various films including: the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, Invasion of the Body Snatchers , E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , and WALL-E...

    • Wanted - Chris Jenkins
      Chris Jenkins (sound engineer)
      Chris Jenkins is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for another two in the same category...

      , Frank A. Montaño
      Frank A. Montaño
      Frank A. Montaño is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 100 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Under Siege * The Fugitive...

       and Petr Forejt
      Petr Forejt
      Petr Forejt is a Czech sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Wanted. He has worked on over 40 films since 1990.-External links:...


  • 2009: The Hurt Locker
    The Hurt Locker
    The Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...

     - Paul N. J. Ottosson
    Paul N. J. Ottosson
    Paul N. J. Ottosson is a Swedish sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for for the film The Hurt Locker and was nominated for another for Spider-Man 2. He has worked on over 100 films since 1995.-Selected filmography:...

     and Ray Beckett
    Ray Beckett (sound engineer)
    Ray Beckett is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for for the film The Hurt Locker. He has worked on over 40 films since 1983.-External links:...

    • Avatar  - Christopher Boyes
      Christopher Boyes
      Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine. He has worked on over 70 films since 1991.-Academy Awards:Boyes has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine:Won...

      , Gary Summers, Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

       and Tony Johnson
      Tony Johnson (sound engineer)
      Tony Johnson is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 30 films since 1990.-Selected filmography:* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe...

    • Inglourious Basterds - Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler
      Michael Minkler is a Motion Picture Sound Re-Recording Mixer. His Oscars are for the work done on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down, but Minkler has a varied career that includes films like Inglourious Basterds, JFK and Star Wars, as well television programs like The Pacific and John Adams...

      , Tony Lamberti
      Tony Lamberti
      Tony Lamberti is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Inglourious Basterds. He has worked on over 120 films since 1991.-External links:...

       and Mark Ulano
      Mark Ulano
      Mark Ulano is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another in the same category...

    • Star Trek  - Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer
      Anna Behlmer is an American sound engineer. She has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. She has worked on over 120 films since 1987.-Selected filmography:* Braveheart * Evita * L.A...

      , Andy Nelson
      Andy Nelson (sound engineer)
      Andy Nelson is an Australian sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for fourteen more in the same category...

       and Peter J. Devlin
      Peter J. Devlin
      Peter J. Devlin is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 50 films since 1988.-Selected filmography:* Pearl Harbor * Transformers...

    • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
      Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
      Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction-action film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers and the second installment in the live-action Transformers series...

       - Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

      , Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
      Geoffrey Patterson
      Geoffrey Patterson is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 50 films since 1985.-Selected filmography:* Twister...


2010s

  • 2010: Inception
    Inception
    Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...

     – Lora Hirschberg
    Lora Hirschberg
    Lora Hirschberg is an American sound engineer. She has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another in the same category. She has worked on over 100 films since 1990.-Selected filmography:...

    , Gary Rizzo
    Gary Rizzo
    Gary Rizzo is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

     and Ed Novick
    Ed Novick
    Ed Novick is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category. He has worked on over 60 films since 1982.-Selected filmography:...

    • The King's Speech – Paul Hamblin
      Paul Hamblin
      Paul Hamblin is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The King's Speech. He has worked on over 120 films since 1983.-External links:...

      , Martin Jensen
      Martin Jensen (sound engineer)
      Martin Jensen is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film The King's Speech.-External links:...

       and John Midgley
      John Midgley
      John Midgley is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 70 films since 1977.-Selected filmography:* Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace...

    • Salt – Jeffrey J. Haboush
      Jeffrey J. Haboush
      Jeffrey J. Haboush is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 150 films since 1985.-External links:...

      , Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell
      Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on nearly 200 films since 1970...

      , Scott Millan and William Sarokin
      William Sarokin
      William Sarokin is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Salt. He has worked on over 80 films since 1984.-External links:...

    • The Social Network
      The Social Network
      The Social Network is a 2010 American drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires, the film portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits...

       – Ren Klyce
      Ren Klyce
      Ren Klyce is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards; two for Best Sound and one for Best Sound Editing.-Selected filmography:* Fight Club - Best Sound Editing...

      , David Parker
      David Parker (sound engineer)
      David Parker is an American sound engineer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for another four in the same category...

      , Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick
      Michael Semanick is an American sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for six more in the same category...

       and Mark Weingarten
    • True Grit
      True Grit (2010 film)
      True Grit is a 2010 American Western film written and directed by the Coen brothers. It is the second adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name, which was previously filmed in 1969 starring John Wayne. This version stars Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as U.S....

       – Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey
      Craig Berkey
      Craig Berkey is a Canadian sound engineer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards. He has worked on over 80 films since 1990.-Selected filmography:* No Country for Old Men - Best Sound...

      , Greg Orloff
      Greg Orloff
      Greg Orloff is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category...

       and Peter Kurland
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