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Michael Brauer is known for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Paul McCartney in Red Square (2003) and At the Max (1991).- Sound Department
Glen Gauthier is known for The Shape of Water (2017), Spotlight (2015) and A History of Violence (2005).- Sound Department
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Paul Virostek began working in 1995 in Toronto, Canada in television and feature films.
At that time Paul also begin field recording for his projects to add unique, high-quality sounds to his projects. He soon began travelling worldwide to record for feature films and multimedia.
Paul travels internationally to record for feature films and add pristine sounds to his collection and to that of premier commercial stock-sound libraries.
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Watson Wu is an award winning American media producer, composer (ASCAP Writer), sound designer, and field recording artist. It was at the age of 11 years old when he started classical voice training then later on classical piano. During junior high music became a passion which Watson wanted to make a career of it after completing school. This was fueled when a professor visited his high school advanced chorus class and offered him a music scholarship to attend Miami Dade College, then later on to Florida International University. During late high school and college, he also performed and did live mixing of different bands and classical concerts. Since 2001 Watson has been in the business of creating audio content for film, TV, ads, and video games. He and his team have worked on AAA titles such as Baby Driver, Mercedes-AMG ad, Assassin's Creed, Transformers, NCAA Football, Madden, The Need for Speed franchise, and many others. Some of Watson's other credits include Lexus, Guts-Glory-Ram, Daniel Craig's A&E Documentary, 71 (the movie), The Voice, G4TV, It's Me or The Dog, Australia's Got Talent, NBA, NHL, U.S. Army ad, and many more.
Memberships: ASCAP Writer (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers), PPA (Professional Photographers of America), Composer for APM & West One Music publishers.
FAQ: Watson is a Featured Artist for Seagate, Sound Devices, Rode Microphones, DPA Microphones, K-Tek, PortaBrace, and Energy Transformation Systems. The Rode WU-1 microphone was named after Watson Wu- Composer
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Working with sound since 1972, Chris Watson currently specializes in location and field recordings, mostly for natural history documentaries. Many of these documentaries have been broadcast on BBC television and radio. Other nature recordings have found their way onto his solo CDs, many of which have received international acclaim. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was a member of the early English industrial music group Cabaret Voltare. After departing C.V., he co-founded The Hafler Trio, an experimental music project. In 1987 he formally began his present work as a sound recordist.- Sound Department
Diane Hope is known for Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (2002), Natural World (1983) and Hi-Phi Nation (2017).- Sound Department
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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 appointed Director of Creative Operations for Skywalker Sound, overseeing the creative and technological direction for the facility. Apart from his feature film and commercials work, Rydstrom has completed several television projects, rides and attraction films. Rydstrom holds a graduate degree from the USC School of Cinema and Television. He is the recipient of 7 Academy Awards for Best Sound and Best Sound Effects Editing for his work on Saving Private Ryan (1998), Titanic (1997), Jurassic Park (1993), and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).He creates awesome action, war and sci-fi sounds, plus designed funny sounds for "Toy Story", the first movie to which, I believe, I was exposed. One of Skywalker Sound's most unique, with a very acquired taste/style.- Sound Department
Robert Hargreaves is known for X-Men: Evolution (2000), Batman Beyond (1999) and Superman: The Animated Series (1996).A personal favorite cartoon sound designer, often true to the sounds of a Warner Bros., MGM, or Hanna-Barbera cartoon. A creative of DigiPost.TV, formerly known as Monterey Post Production.- Sound Department
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Christopher Scarabosio is known for Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019), Phantom Thread (2017) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).One of the greatest sound editors, and with Skywalker Sound. Whenever he's merely credited as a sound effects editor, usually there're awesome sound effects. Star Wars, Young Indiana Jones, Hellboy, Pearl Harbor, Titan A.E. and the Despicable Me franchise are among his finest.- Sound Department
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Lora Hirschberg is known for Inception (2010), The Dark Knight (2008) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017).One of the most well-known female mixers, namely from Skywalker Sound and Bison, Bison Studios.- Sound Department
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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 Now (1979), and won an unprecedented double Oscar for Best Sound and Best Film Editing for his work on The English Patient (1996). Most recently he helped reconstruct Touch of Evil (1958) to Orson Welles' original notes, and edited The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). Mr. Murch was, along with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, a founding member of northern California cinema. Mr. Murch has directed --Return to Oz (1985) -- and longs to do so again, but as an editor and sound man he is one of the few universally acknowledged masters in his field. For his work on the film "Apocalypse Now (1979)", Walter coined the term "sound designer", and along with colleagues such as Ben Burtt, helped to elevate the art and impact of film sound to a new level.The legendary man of post-production sound who inspired famous creatives Ben Burtt and Randy Thom, with his distinctive use of POV. Very stylized but in-depth in sound design approach.- Sound Department
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Teresa Eckton was born on 6 March 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is known for War Horse (2011), Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).One of the greatest, most important, longest-running sound editor, with Skywalker and Weddington/Technicolor.- Sound Department
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Matthew Wood is an American sound editor and voice actor who works at Lucasfilm. He did sound editing for the 2011 re-releases of the original Star Wars trilogy, the prequel trilogy, the sequel trilogy and many more Lucasfilm projects. He voiced General Grievous in Revenge of the Sith after replacing Richard McGonagle who voiced in the Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars cartoon. He also voiced the Battle Droids in various Star Wars media set during the Clone Wars.Obviously one of the most important editors at Skywalker, and a great sound designer on the few projects on which he designed sound.- Sound Department
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Al Nelson is known for Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Jurassic World (2015) and 20 Feet from Stardom (2013).If you want great sound that depends on a small budget or crew, Al here is the one to look to. His work on Book of Dragons and Life, Animated are great highlights. A Skywalker Sound creative.- Sound Department
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The most unsung and uncredited of sound creatives. The signature sounds of "The Powerpuff Girls" and "Samurai Jack" were designed by this great artist, who was mentor to Jeff Hutchins. He founded Twenty-First Century Entertainment AKA 21st Century Sound Design Corp. He also edited sound on Bakersfield P.D., Born Yesterday and Northen Exposure (for which he won an Emmy), which were all involved with Skywalker Sound.- Sound Department
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As in-depth as Randy Thom in the world of modern cartoon sound design, particularly for animated movies. Started Pomann Sound and Hacienda Post/Relative Horta Editorial team, along with Technicolor/Weddington and Glenwood Editorial. This inspirational artist formed his own studio, Badabing Badaboom Productions, where most of the sound in "Courage the Cowardly Dog" was later done.- Sound Department
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Jeff Hutchins is a multi-award-winning Sound Designer, Sound Supervisor and Field Recordist. Jeff is a hands on Sound Supervisor with twenty nine years of experience creating soundscapes for video games, motion pictures and television. Field recording and sound design are passions of Jeffs. He has scanned the globe on a quest to record the world's most interesting sounds. Jeff always provides a palette of unique sounds for every project. His original sound design and recordings helped create the world of "SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)", one of the highest grossing franchises in the last decade. Jeff's owns his own studio "Channel Islands Foley", which includes a sound design suite and a high definition Foley stage. He has won five Emmys and seven Golden Reel awards, for excellence in the sound industry. Jeff is based out of Oxnard, California.One of the finest of modern cartoon sound designers (namely on Spongebob). He emphasizes the smaller "takes" of characters in a simple change of expression. Mentored by Joel Valentine, this freelance artist is full of talent and even developed his own sound studio in Oxford, California.- Sound Department
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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 of Yoda and several others.One of the most attentive to authentic sound design, particularly with war movies, and founder of #skywalkersound. From the watch of Lincoln to the classic sounds of a Warner Bros. picture, he designs iconic, amazing, awesome sounds, including #StarWars of course.- Sound Department
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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 example, in addition to being the music mixer on Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Thom was also the production sound mixer for all the footage shot in the US. Since 1983, Thom has been on staff as a sound designer and mixer at Lucasfilm's Skywalker Sound facility. He is part of a small group of sound designers that are following in Walter Murch and Ben Burtt's footsteps in the continuing work of turning motion picture sound into an art form and not simply a series of technical processes. His work on a film often begins before the film has started shooting, and becomes an integral part of the storytelling and emotional impact of the film. Randy Thom has been part of Robert Zemeckis' core creative team ever since Forrest Gump (1994). Through his career Thom has worked with such top Hollywood talents as Walter Murch, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Brad Bird, Tim Burton, Chris Columbus, Mel Brooks and the Farrelly Brothers. Thom has received two Academy Awards for sound, The Right Stuff (1983), and for sound editing, The Incredibles (2004). He has fifteen Oscar nominations.The most important of sound designers among us today. Not only creative, but in-depth. Emphasizes Walter Murch's POV approach and records the most amazing of sounds. Major influence in the sound effects library of Skywalker Sound.- Sound Department
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Tom Fleischman began mixing feature films under the tutelage of New York rerecording mixer Richard (Dick) Vorisek in 1979. In 1981 Tom and Dick were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound for their work on Warren Beatty's Reds. Since then Tom has mixed nearly 200 features, documentaries, commercials, and television projects. He has developed long-term working relationships with many directors, earned 4 more Academy Award nominations for Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), and won for Hugo (2012). In television, Tom has won 5 Emmy Awards, 5 CAS Awards, and a BAFTA Award for sound mixing. Tom has been mixing on Stage B at Soundtrack Film and Television in New York since 2004.- Sound Department
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Richard King was born in Tampa, Florida and attended the University of South Florida graduating with a BFA in painting and film.
Since 1985 he has worked in film sound design. Richard has been fortunate to work with such directors as Nicolas Roeg, M. Night Shyamalan, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, William Friedkin, Peter Weir, Steven Spielberg,Christopher Nolan, Patty Jenkins and Jeymes Samuel. He is the recipient of four Academy Awards, three Bafta Awards, and four MPSE awards for Best Sound Editing as well as the MPSE Career Achievement Award.
Richard lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.- Sound Department
Frank E. Warner was born on 27 March 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Murder by Death (1976) and Harold and Maude (1971). He was married to Nyla Ann 'Lann' Calkins and Theodosia Greene. He died on 31 August 2011 in Sedona, Arizona, USA.- Sound Department
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Aesha Eesh Dominguez is known for America Is Sinking (2023), Attack on Titan (2022) and Battle for Pandora (2022).- Sound Department
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Red Broad is known for Earworm (2016), Path of the Daff (2019) and Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead (2006).- Sound Department