Skip Lievsay

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Skip Lievsay
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Lievsay in 2009
Occupation(s) Supervising sound editor,
Re-recording mixer
Years active1981 present

Skip Lievsay is an American supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer and sound designer for film and television, Lievsay has worked with filmmakers and directors including the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman.

In January 2007, he received two Oscar nominations—for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing—for his work on Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men . [1] In 2011, he was nominated in the same categories for the film True Grit . [2]

In 2014, he won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for Gravity ; he was also nominated in the same category for the films Inside Llewyn Davis and Roma . [3]

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References

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  2. "The 83rd Academy Awards (2011) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
  3. "Nominees for the 86th Oscars". oscars.org. Retrieved 2014-01-16.