Ronald Pierce (sound engineer)
Encyclopedia
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.
Won
Nominated
Audio engineering
An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
. 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
- EarthquakeEarthquake (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...
(1974)
Nominated
- Airport (1970)
- The StingThe StingThe 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...
(1973)