Gary Rydstrom

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Gary Rydstrom
Born
Gary Roger Rydstrom

(1959-06-29) June 29, 1959 (age 65)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation(s)Sound designer
Re-recording mixer
Supervising sound editor
Film director
Years active1984–present

Gary Roger Rydstrom (born June 29, 1959) is an American sound designer and film director. He has been nominated for 20 Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies, and has won 7.

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Life and career

Rydstrom was born in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1981. [1] He began his career at Skywalker Sound, Northern California in 1983. Offered the job by a college professor, he received the opportunity to work with his mentor, Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt.

After gaining invaluable experience as a sound technician in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , Rydstrom went on to do sound design for the comedy Spaceballs . The sound design for Backdraft , prepared from scratch, would become the precursor for his sound for Terminator 2: Judgment Day . The original sound effects from Backdraft are constantly referenced and have been used for numerous other films including The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and Shrek .[ citation needed ]

He won an Academy Award for his work on Terminator 2: Judgment Day, for which he pioneered techniques still used today for creating realistic sound effects. Rydstrom also worked with Terminator 2 director James Cameron on a new 5.1 surround sound mix for the original Terminator.

His sound work on Jurassic Park led to further innovations, as he and his team set out to create dinosaur sounds by mixing together numerous different animal vocalizations [2] to make the audience feel as though giant bellowing prehistoric beasts surrounded them. The Oscar-winning film was the first motion picture to be presented in DTS. [3] The T.RexrRoar created by Gary was later re-used for Dim in A Bug's Life , Thanator in Avatar and the Hydra in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief .

He subsequently went on to work on sound for numerous films including Titanic , Saving Private Ryan , Minority Report and Finding Nemo . He won an MPSE lifetime achievement award, and regularly speaks at various sound design forums sharing his extensive knowledge and enthusiasm with aspiring sound design artists.

He made his directorial debut with the Pixar short Lifted, for which he received his fourteenth Academy Award nomination. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2006. His debut feature film for the studio, Newt, which was supposed to be about the adventure of two blue-footed newts, and their struggles to work together, was announced in 2008. It supposedly reached the early stages of production, until it was cancelled by Pixar in early 2011 due to story issues. He has also directed the Pixar short Hawaiian Vacation and the Lucasfilm animated feature Strange Magic . [4] [5]

Rydstrom has also served as English language director on Tales From Earthsea , Arrietty , From Up on Poppy Hill , and The Wind Rises , all of which were produced by the Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli.

Awards and nominations

Gary Rydstrom has been nominated for 20 Academy Awards (7 wins), 12 Golden Reel Awards (5 wins), 5 C.A.S Awards (2 wins), 5 BAFTA Awards (2 wins), and 1 Grammy (1 win).

Academy Awards
Motion Picture Sound Editors - Golden Reel Award
  • 2005: - Career Achievement Award
  • 2004: Finding Nemo (Best Sound Editing in Feature Film - Animated - Sound) - Nominated
  • 2003: Minority Report (Best Sound Editing in Domestic Features - Dialogue & ADR) - Nominated
  • 2003: Minority Report (Best Sound Editing in Domestic Features - Sound Effects & Foley) - Nominated
  • 2002: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature Film, Domestic and Foreign) - Won
  • 2002: Monsters, Inc. (Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature Film, Domestic and Foreign) - Nominated
  • 2002: Artificial Intelligence: AI (Best Sound Editing - Dialogue & ADR, Domestic Feature Film) - Nominated
  • 2002: Artificial Intelligence: AI (Best Sound Editing - Effects & Foley, Domestic Feature Film) - Nominated
  • 2001: 'Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport' (Best Sound Editing - Dialogue & ADR, Domestic Feature Film) - Nominated
  • 1999: A Bug's Life (Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature) - Won
  • 1999: Saving Private Ryan (Best Sound Editing - Dialogue & ADR) - Won
  • 1999: Saving Private Ryan (Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects & Foley) - Won
  • 1998: Hercules (Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature) - Won
Cinema Audio Society - C.A.S Award
  • 2004: - Career Achievement Award
  • 2000: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Feature Film) - Nominated
  • 1999: Saving Private Ryan (Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Feature Film) - Won
  • 1998: Titanic (Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Feature Film) - Won
  • 1994: Jurassic Park (Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Feature Film) - Nominated
BAFTA Award
  • 2000: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (Best Sound) - Nominated
  • 1999: Saving Private Ryan (Best Sound) - Won
  • 1998: Titanic (Best Sound) - Nominated
  • 1994: Jurassic Park (Best Sound) - Nominated
  • 1992: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Best Sound) - Won
Grammy Award

Filmography

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  2. ↑ Buchanan, Kyle (2015-06-09). "You'll Never Guess How the Dinosaur Sounds in Jurassic Park Were Made". vulture.com. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
  3. ↑ "When dinosaurs ruled the cinema: remembering "Jurassic Park" on its 25th anniversary". thedigitalbits.com. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  4. ↑ Desowitz, Bill (2015-01-23). "Immersed in Movies: Gary Rydstrom Talks 'Strange Magic' as Animated Rock Opera". IndieWire. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
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