Edmund H. Hansen

Edmund H. Hansen ( born November 13, 1894 in Springfield, Illinois, † October 10, 1962 in Orange, California ) was an American film and sound engineer, who received an Academy Award twice.

Biography

Hansen began in 1928 with the film In Old Arizona by Irving Cummings as a sound engineer in the film industry in Hollywood in the Studio Sound Department of the Fox Film Corporation, today 20th Century Fox.

At the Academy Awards in 1935, he was first nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound in The White Parade ( 1934). Other nominees in this category, followed in 1936 for music at midnight ( Thanks a Million, 1935), 1937 Mississippi Melody (1936 ), in 1938 for In Old Chicago (1937 ), 1939 for Suez ( 1938) as well as at the Academy Awards 1940 night over India ( 1939).

For this film, he received 1940 his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects and either together with Fred Sersen.

At the Academy Awards in 1941 he was again nominated for two Oscars and indeed the one for the best sound in The Grapes of Wrath (1940 ), again on the other with Fred Sersen for Best Visual Effects in The Blue Bird ( 1940). The following year, 1942, he was again nominated twice: on the one hand, for the best sound in Green Was My Valley (1941 ), on the other hand, again with Fred Sersen for Best Visual Effects in A Yank in the RAF ( 1941). Other nominations for the Academy Award for Best Sound followed in 1943 for This Above All and in 1944 for The Song of Bernadette ( 1943).

At the Academy Awards in 1945 he won his second Oscar, this time in the category Best Sound in Wilson (1944 ), the film adaptation of the life story of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.

In addition to Cummings, he worked with numerous other well-known film directors like Roy Del Ruth, John Cromwell, Henry King, Allan Dwan, Clarence Brown, John Ford, Walter Lang, Anatole Litvak and Raoul Walsh.