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The 51st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1978 and took place on April 9, 1979, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 7:00 p.m. PST / 10:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Jack Haley Jr. and directed by Marty Pasetta. Comedian and talk show host Johnny Carson hosted the show for the first time. Three days earlier, in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Gregory Peck and Christopher Reeve.
Thomas T. Moulton was an American sound engineer. He won five Academy Awards in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for eleven more in the same category. He was also nominated four times in the category Best Visual Effects.
Arthur Piantadosi was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the Robert Redford film All the President's Men and was nominated for six more in the same category. He won a BAFTA Award in 1973 for Best Sound for the 1972 film Cabaret.
Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He worked on more than 100 films between 1963 and 1995.
Donald O. Mitchell is an American sound engineer. He won an Oscar for Best Sound and was nominated for thirteen more in the same category. He worked on nearly 120 films between 1973 and 2002.
Roger Heman was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another one in the same category. His father was also a sound engineer and also won an Academy Award, for Best Effects, Special Effects for Crash Dive.
Richard Tyler was an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on more than 60 films between 1971 and 1989.
Al Overton Jr. is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on more than 40 films between 1969 and 1991. His father, Al Overton, was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound.
Robert Glass was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for five more in the same category. He has worked on many films since 1976. Glass was found stabbed to death in his flat in Los Feliz, Los Angeles on July 21, 1993.
Robin Marshall Gregory was an English sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.
John Keen "Doc" Wilkinson was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for another two in the same category. He worked on more than 140 films between 1958 and 1992.
John T. Reitz is an American re-recording mixer. He won an Oscar for Best Sound and was nominated for another four in the same category. He has worked on more than 180 films since 1976.
Michael J. Kohut was an American audio engineer. He was a seven-time Academy Award nominee for Best Sound, a BAFTA award winner for Best Sound for Fame and was President of Post Production Facilities at Sony Pictures Studios. During his tenure at Sony Pictures Studios, he led the American team in the development of Sony Dynamic Digital Sound the discrete eight-channel playback system for motion picture sound.
Steve Maslow is an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for four more in the same category. He has worked on more than 200 films since 1978.
Robert Thirlwell is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.
Rick Kline is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on more than 220 films since 1978.
Robert J. Litt is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He worked on over 160 films between 1964 and 2000.
Bill W. Benton is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category. He has worked on more than 110 films since 1980.
Paul Massey is an English sound engineer working based in Southern California. He has been nominated for ten Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on 200-plus films since 1982. He won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing in 2019 for Bohemian Rhapsody along with John Casali and Tim Cavagin. In 2022 Massey received the Cinema Audio Society’s Career Achievement Award at the 58th annual CAS Awards.
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