Gary Summers

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Gary Summers
Occupation Sound engineer
Years active1980–present

Gary Summers is an American sound re-recording mixer.

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He has done the sound re-recording on a number of blockbuster motion pictures including Avatar , Titanic , Terminator 2: Judgment Day , Saving Private Ryan , Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Jurassic Park . Summers has won four Oscars, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA awards and three C.A.S. Awards. [1]

He got his start working on The Empire Strikes Back and began a twenty-year stretch working for the Skywalker Sound division of George Lucas's Lucas Digital in Marin County, California. [2] Summers formed Summers Sound Services, Inc. in 2002 and is currently self-employed.

Academy Awards

Summers has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for eight more:

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