Tim Cooney
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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.
In 1976 Cooney started working as a boom man at Universal Studios. His first studio picture as production mixer was Blue Thunder for Columbia Pictures
in 1981.
Cooney has received nominations for various awards that include an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound for Cliffhanger
, three Emmys nominations, two Cinema Audio Society nominations For Outstanding Achievement In Sound Mixing and three Golden Reel Award nominations. Cooney won the Golden Reel for best sound in 2000. He is the author of a book, "Work in movies? Are you crazy?"
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.
In 1976 Cooney started working as a boom man at Universal Studios. His first studio picture as production mixer was Blue Thunder for Columbia Pictures
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...
in 1981.
Cooney has received nominations for various awards that include an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound for 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...
, three Emmys nominations, two Cinema Audio Society nominations For Outstanding Achievement In Sound Mixing and three Golden Reel Award nominations. Cooney won the Golden Reel for best sound in 2000. He is the author of a book, "Work in movies? Are you crazy?"
External links
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Index to Motion Picture Credits - Tim Cooney
- http://www.emmys.com/award_history_search?person=tim+cooney&program=&start_year=1985&end_year=2009&network=All&web_category=All&winner=All