Sound Designers & Composers

1. Randy Thom

Sound_department | The Revenant

Randy Thom started his career in radio and music recording before making the transition to film in 1978, when he was hired on Apocalypse Now (1979) as a sound effects recordist. Since then, Thom has worked in a wide variety of creative capacities within the sound department in over 175 films. For ...

2. Walter Murch

Sound_department | The English Patient

Walter Murch has been editing sound in Hollywood since starting on Francis Ford Coppola's film The Rain People (1969). He edited sound on American Graffiti (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), won his first Academy Award nomination for The Conversation (1974), won his first Oscar for Apocalypse...

3. Carmine Coppola

Composer | Apocalypse Now

Composer, conductor, arranger and flautist, educated at the Manhattan School of Music (BA, MA) and Juilliard (on scholarship) (MM). He was first flautist for Radio City Music Hall from 1934 to 1936, the Detroit Symphony from 1936 to 1941, the NBC Toscanini Orchestra from 1942 to 1948 and staff ...

4. Ren Klyce

Sound_department | Fight Club

Ren Klyce is known for Fight Club (1999), Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) and Her (2013).

5. Alan Splet

Sound_department | Dune

Alan Splet was born on December 31, 1939 in the USA. He is known for Dune (1984), Rising Sun (1993) and Blue Velvet (1986). He was married to Ann Kroeber. He died on December 2, 1994 in Berkeley, California, USA.

6. Lora Hirschberg

Sound_department | Inception

Lora Hirschberg is known for Inception (2010), The Dark Knight (2008) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017).

7. Pete Horner

Sound_department | Jurassic World Dominion

Pete Horner is known for Jurassic World Dominion (2022), Jurassic World (2015) and Upstream Color (2013).

8. Gary Rydstrom

Sound_department | Jurassic Park

Gary Rydstrom, Director of Creative Operations/Sound Designer and Mixer, joined Skywalker Sound in 1983 as an operator in the machine room. Since then, he has contributed his talents to many projects as a sound designer, re-recording mixer, effects mixer and foley mixer. In 1998, Rydstrom was ...

9. Vivien Hillgrove

Editor | The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Vivien Hillgrove, a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has over fifty years of experience as an editor and a sound editor for both narrative and documentary films. In the 1980's and 90's, Hillgrove worked as a dialogue editor on many feature films, including Amadeus, Blue ...

10. Ben Burtt

Sound_department | WALL·E

Ben Burtt was born in New York, USA. Though he is a writer, an editor and a director, he is best known for his work as a sound designer. Ben has worked on many Pixar and Star Trek movies and all of the Star Wars movies. He is credited for creating Chewbacca's voice and sounds as well as the voice ...

11. Karen Baker Landers

Sound_department | Skyfall

Baker Landers first displayed an affinity for sound at age eleven when her parents gave her a tape recorder. She would walk around her house and make up stories just through sound effects. While studying Film at California State University at Long Beach, she impressed sound designers Richard ...

12. Anna Behlmer

Sound_department | L.A. Confidential

Anna Behlmer is an American re-recording mixer for film and television. Behlmer was the recipient of the Cinema Audio Society Career Achievement Award in 2018.

During her career Anna has worked with many esteemed filmmakers, including Baz Luhrmann, Steven Spielberg, Niki Caro, Bong Joon Ho, Chris ...

13. Skip Lievsay

Sound_department | Gravity

Skip Lievsay is known for Gravity (2013), No Country for Old Men (2007) and Roma (2018).

14. Deb Adair

Sound_department | Tár

Deb Adair studied film production at Syracuse University where she earned her bachelor's degree. She then moved to Nashville to work in the music recording industry. Her passion for filmmaking led her to Los Angeles, where she has more than 28 years of experience in sound with expertise in music ...