Gary Summers
American sound re-recording mixer
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Gary Summers is an American re-recording mixer.
Gary Summers | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Sound engineer |
| Years active | 1980–present |
He has done the sound re-recording on many 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 Academy Awards, 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 twenty years working for the Skywalker Sound division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm 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:
- Wins
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)[3]
- Jurassic Park (1993)[4]
- Titanic (1997)[5]
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)[6]
- Nominated
- Return of the Jedi (1983)[7]
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)[8]
- Backdraft (1991)[3]
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)[9]
- Avatar (2009)[9]
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)[10]
- 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)[11]
- Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)[12]
