Ethan Van der Ryn
Ethan Van der Ryn ( born October 21, 1962 in Alameda, California) is an American sound engineer.
Life
Van der Ryn studied until 1986 at the San Francisco State University, which he left with a bachelor's degree. In the last year of his studies, he worked as a helper with the cable film The Nutcracker by Carroll Ballard. After completing his studies, Van der Ryn specialist for the sound equipment and began to work at Lucasfilm. In the following 14 years he worked first assistant sound editor, including the films Cadillac Man and Avalon (both 1990). His first film as Toneffekttechniker 1991 Terminator 2; other movies like Titanic and Saving Private Ryan followed.
Van der Ryn the directors Michael Bay and Peter Jackson was involved as a sound engineer on most films. Six times he worked with sound engineer Mike Hopkins, where Van der Ryn for the external sound effects and Hopkins was responsible for the sound recordings of the dialogues. His first big success was Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, for its sound editor 2003, he won an Oscar. Van der Ryn won for his work King Kong 2005 another Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. He was also nominated in 2008 and 2012 for Transformers or Transformers 3 and 2013 for Argo for an Oscar in the category Best Sound Editing.
Van der Ryn lives with his wife and two children in Malibu.