Todd Soundelux

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Todd Soundelux
Industry Post-production, broadcast media
Founded2008
Headquarters Hollywood, California, United States
Website toddsoundelux.com

Todd Soundelux is an American creative entertainment services company.

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The company's main activity is to provide creative and technical post production sound and music services for motion picture studios, independent producers, broadcast networks, cable channels, advertising agencies and other companies that produce, own or distribute content. The company maintains facilities in Hollywood, California, Burbank, California, and Santa Monica, California.

History

Todd-AO American post-production company

Todd-AO is an American post-production company founded in 1953, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries. The company operates three facilities in the Los Angeles area. Todd-AO is also the name of the widescreen, 70 mm film format that was developed by Mike Todd and the American Optical Company in the mid-1950s. Todd-AO had been founded to promote and distribute this system.

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Subsidiaries

Notable creative staff

Feature films

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Notable industry recognition

YearAwardCategoryTypeTitleHonorees
2014 Academy Award Best Sound Editing Nominated Lone Survivor Wylie Stateman
2014 Academy Award Best Sound Mixing Nominated Lone Survivor Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow
2014 CAS Award Sound Mixing - Motion Picture - Live ActionNominated Lone Survivor Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow, Satoshi Mark Noguchi, Gregory Steele, Nerses Gezalyan
2014 CAS Award Sound Mixing - Television SeriesNominated Game Of Thrones, The Rains of Castamere Onnalee Blank, Mathew Waters, Ronan Hill,
Brett Voss
2014 CAS Award Sound Mixing - TV Non-Fiction, Variety, Music Series or SpecialsNominated2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Michael Minkler, Greg Townsend
2013 Emmy Award Sound Mixing - Comedy Or Drama SeriesNominated Game Of Thrones,
And Now His Watch Is Ended 		Mathew Waters, Onnalee Blank, Ronan Hill
2013 Emmy Award Sound Editing - SeriesNominated Game Of Thrones,
And Now His Watch Is Ended 		Tim Kimmel, Paula Fairfield, Jed M. Dodge,
Bradley C. Katona, David Klotz, Brett Voss,
Jeffrey Wilhoit, James Moriana
2013 Emmy Award Sound Mixing - Comedy Or Drama SeriesNominated Mad Men,
The Flood 		Ken Teaney, Alec St. John, Peter Bentley
2013 Emmy Award Sound Editing - SeriesNominated Nikita,
Aftermath 		George Haddad, Ruth Adelman, Chad J. Hughes,
Steve Papagiannis, Dale Chaloukian, Ashley Revell,
James M. Bailey
2013 Emmy Award Sound Editing - Miniseries, Movie or SpecialNominated Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden Christopher Kaller, Trip Brock, Peter D. Lago,
Steven Avila, Alexander Pugh, Kate Sheil,
Greg Mauer, Rick Owens
2013 Academy Award Best Sound Editing Won Skyfall Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers
2013 Academy Award Best Sound Editing Nominated Django Unchained Wylie Stateman
2013 BAFTA Award Best Sound Nominated Skyfall Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers, Scott Millan,
Gregg Russell, Stuart Wilson
2013 BAFTA Award Best Sound Nominated Django Unchained Wylie Stateman, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti,
Mark Ulano
2013 CAS Award Sound Mixing - Television SeriesNominated Game Of Thrones, Blackwater Onnalee Blank, Mathew Waters, Ronan Hill,
Brett Voss
2013 CAS Award Sound Mixing - Television SeriesNominated Mad Men, Commissions and Fees Ken Teaney, Alec St. John, Peter Bentley
2012 Emmy Award Sound Editing - SeriesNominated CSI: Miami, Blown Away Timothy I. Kimmel, Brad Katona, Ruth Adelman,
Todd Niesen, Skye Lewin, Joseph Sabella,
James Bailey
2012 Emmy Award Sound Editing - SeriesWon Game Of Thrones, Blackwater Peter Brown, Kira Roessler, Tim Hands,
Paul Aulicino, Stephen P. Robinson, Vanessa Lapato,
Brett Voss, James Moriana, Jeffrey Wilhoit,
David Klotz
2012 Emmy Award Sound Mixing - Comedy Or Drama SeriesWon Game Of Thrones, Blackwater Matthew Waters, Onnalee Blank, Ronan Hill,
Mervyn Moore
2012 Emmy Award Sound Mixing - Comedy Or Drama SeriesNominated Entourage, The End Tom Stasinis, Dennis Kirk, Todd Orr
2012 Academy Award Best Sound Editing Nominated Drive Lon Bender, Victor Ray Ennis
2011 Emmy Award Sound Mixing – Comedy or DramaWon Family Guy: Road to the North Pole James F. Fitzpatrick, Patrick Clark
2011 Emmy Award Sound MixingNominated Mildred Pierce (Part Five) Drew Kunin, Leslie Shatz, Bobby Johanson,
Joshua Reinhardt
2011 Emmy Award Sound Mixing – Comedy or DramaNominated Mad Men, The Suitcase Ken Teaney, Todd Orr,
Peter Bentley
2011 Emmy Award Sound Editing – SeriesNominated Nikita, Pandora George Haddad, Dale Chaloukian, Ruth Adelman,
Chad J. Hughes, Ashley Revell, James Bailey,
Joseph T. Sabella
2011 Emmy Award Sound Editing – SeriesNominated CSI: NY, Life Sentence Mark Relyea, Edmund Lachmann, David Barbee,
Ruth Adelman, Kevin McCullough, Joshua Winget,
Joseph T. Sabella, James M. Bailey
2011 Academy Award Best Sound Editing Nominated Unstoppable Mark Stoeckinger
2011 BAFTA Award Best Sound Nominated Black Swan Dominick Tavella, Craig Henighan, Ken Ishii
2010 Emmy Award Sound Editing - Miniseries or MovieWon The Pacific, Part Five Tom Bellfort, Benjamin Cook, Daniel S. Irwin,
Hector Gika, Charles Maynes, Paul Aulicino,
John C. Stuver, David Williams, Michelle Pazer,
John Finklea, Jody Holwadel Thomas, Katie Rose
2010 Emmy Award Sound Mixing – Miniseries or MovieWon The Pacific, Part Two Michael Minkler, Daniel Leahy,
Andrew Ramage
2010 Emmy Award Sound Mixing – Miniseries or MovieNominated The Pacific, Part Five Michael Minkler, Daniel Leahy,
Craig Mann, Andrew Ramage
2010 Emmy Award Sound Mixing – Miniseries or MovieNominated The Pacific, Part Eight Michael Minkler, Daniel Leahy,
Marc Fishman, Gary Wilkins
2010 Emmy Award Sound Mixing – Miniseries or MovieNominated The Pacific, Part Nine Michael Minkler, Daniel Leahy, Gary Wilkins
2010 Emmy Award Sound Mixing - Comedy or Drama SeriesWon Entourage, Part Eight Dennis Kirk, Alec St. John, Todd Orr,
Tom Stasinis
2010 Emmy Award Sound Mixing - Nonfiction ProgrammingNominated The National Parks: America's Best Idea Dominick Tavella
2010 BAFTA Award Best Sound Nominated Star Trek Mark P. Stoeckinger, Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson,
Anna Behlmer, Ben Burtt
2010 Academy Award Best Sound Editing Nominated Star Trek Mark P. Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin
2010 CAS Award Sound Mixing - Television SeriesWon Mad Men, Guy Walks Into an
Advertising Agency 		Ken Teaney, Todd Orr, Peter Bentley
2009 Academy Award Best Sound Editing Nominated Inglourious Basterds Wylie Stateman
2009 Academy Award Best Sound Mixing Nominated Inglourious Basterds Michael Minkler and Tony Lamberti
2009 BAFTA Award Best Sound Nominated Quantum of Solace Eddy Joseph
2009 Emmy Award Sound Mixing - Comedy or DramaWon Entourage Dennis Kirk, Bill Jackson, Tom Stasinis
2009 Emmy Award Sound Editing - SeriesNominated CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Mace Matiosian, Ruth Adelman, Jivan Tahmizian,
David Van Slyke, Joseph Sabella, James Bailey.
2009 Academy Award Best Sound Editing Nominated Wanted Wylie Stateman
2008 Emmy Award Sound Editing, Miniseries or MovieWon John Adams Alex Gibson
2008 Emmy Award Sound Mixing, Miniseries or MovieWon John Adams Marc Fishman and Tony Lamberti
2008 Emmy Award Sound Mixing, Miniseries or MovieNominated John Adams Michael Minkler and Bob Beemer
2008 Emmy Award Sound Editing - SeriesNominated CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Mace Matiosian, Ruth Adelman, Jivan Tahmizian,
David Van Slyke, Chad Hughes, Joseph Sabella,
Zane Bruce.
2008 Emmy Award Sound Mixing, NonfictionNominated The War Dominick Tavella
2008 Emmy Award Sound Mixing - Comedy or DramaNominated Entourage Dennis Kirk and Bill Jackson
2008 Academy Award Best Sound Mixing Won The Bourne Ultimatum Scott Millan and David Parker
2008 Academy Award Best Sound Editing Won The Bourne Ultimatum Karen M. Baker, Per Hallberg
2008 BAFTA Award Best Sound Won The Bourne Ultimatum Karen M. Baker, Per Hallberg, Kirk Francis,
Scott Millan, David Parker

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References

  1. ↑ The Hollywood Reporter
  2. ↑ Palank, Jacqueline (22 May 2014). "Soundelux Enters Bankruptcy, Seeks Cash". The Wall Street Journal .
  3. ↑ Frazer, Bryant (22 May 2014). "Todd-Soundelux Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection, Shuttering Hollywood and Santa Monica Locations". Studio Daily.
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