Carlton W. Faulkner

Carlton Wilson Faulkner ( born June 7, 1904 in Bay Hundred, Maryland, † January 28, 1967 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American sound engineer who won an Oscar for Best Sound and beyond an Oscar for technical merit as well as Academy Award of Merit was given.

Life

Faulkner began in the 1940s, his work as a sound engineer in the studio division of 20th Century Fox and was " for the reverse bias method, including a double bias method for light valve and galvanometer records " at the Oscar ceremony in 1947 with an Oscar for technical merits ( Academy Technical Achievement Award). At the Academy Awards in 1954, he received together with Henri Chretien, Earl Sponable, Sol Halperin, Lorin Grignon, Herbert Gragg and Fred Waller an Academy Award of Merit " for the design, development and manufacture of the equipment, the process and the technology of the CinemaScope process ".

At the Academy Awards in 1956, he was first nominated for the Oscar for best sound, and indeed for Splendored Thing ( Original title: Love Is a Many- Splendored Thing, 1955) by Henry King with William Holden, Jennifer Jones and Torin Thatcher in the lead roles.

In the next Oscar ceremony in 1957, he won the Oscar for best sound for the directed by Walter Lang musical film The King and I (1956 ) with Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner and Rita Moreno.

Another nomination for the Academy Award for Best Sound Faulkner was awarded in 1959 for the early anti-war film The Young Lions (1958 ) by director Edward Dmytryk with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin. One last Oscar nomination in this category, he also received at the Academy Awards in 1960 for Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 ) based on the novel by Jules Verne, Henry Levin with James Mason, Pat Boone and Arlene Dahl staged in the lead roles. In addition, he was nominated together with LB Abbott and James B. Gordon for the Oscar for best visual effects in this film.

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Filmography (selection)

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