Gary Rydstrom
Gary Rydstrom ( born 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American sound engineer and animation director.
Rydstrom attended the USC School of Cinema. Although he wanted to be a screenwriter or director originally, he soon developed a fascination for the post-production phase with movies. He started his career in 1983 at Skywalker Sound, after his university professor had offered him the job. There he learned under Ben Burtt.
He was involved in the following years in various successful films; such as in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Spaceballs (1987). In the 1990s and early 2000s, he was one of the most important American sound engineer; he was responsible for the sound in over fifty productions. At the Academy Awards in 1992 he was nominated four times; Terminator 2 - Judgment Day and Backdraft - men who pass through the fire ever in the categories " Best Sound" and "Best sound editor ", where he eventually for Terminator 2 - won two trophies day of reckoning. He received two more Oscars in 1994 for the sound in Jurassic Park.
His fifth Academy Award winning Rydstrom 1998 Titanic and the following year two more for Saving Private Ryan. He was nominated four additional times as a sound engineer - in 2000 for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 2002 monster for the AG, 2003 Minority Report and 2004 for Finding Nemo - but won no Oscar.
After a twenty year career as a sound engineer, he decided to focus on an activity other than filmmaker. The animation studio Pixar, which he had since his first film, Luxo Jr. several times worked as a sound engineer in 1986, he realized the five-minute computer animated film Lifted on the Alien Stu. This film was nominated for the Academy Awards in 2007 as " Best Animated Short Film " and ran in 2007 in the cinema as a supporting film to Pixar's Ratatouille.
After Lifted offered for Rydstrom the opportunity to make a movie for Pixar.