George Groves (sound engineer)

George R. Groves ( born December 13, 1901 in St Helens, Merseyside, England, † September 4, 1976 in North Hollywood, California ) was a British- American engineer, who won the Oscar for best sound twice.

Biography

Groves, who emigrated to the USA in 1923, started in the mid 1920s as a sound engineer for film productions in Hollywood, was the first time with Don Juan - involved in The Great Lovers (1926 ) by Alan Crosland at making a movie, he was also a film crew at the first sound film The Jazz singer (1927 ) by Alan Crosland.

In the 1930s he worked for the First National Studio Sound Department and was the first time at the Oscar ceremony in November 1930 nominated for The Song of the Flame ( 1930) by A. Crosland for an Oscar in the category Best Sound.

In 1958 he was awarded the Oscar for best sound for the first time and indeed for Sayonara ( 1957) by Joshua Logan.

After that, he was nominated three more times for an Oscar in the category Best Sound: First, at the Academy Awards in 1960 for Nun's Story (1959 ) by Fred Zinnemann, 1961 for Sunrise at Campobello (1960 ) by Vincent J. Donehue, and at the Academy Awards 1963 for Music Man (1962 ) by Morton DaCosta.

For the sound in My Fair Lady ( 1964) by George Cukor in 1965 followed the presentation of his second Oscar.

After Groves still further twice was nominated for the Academy Award for best sound on the one hand at the Academy Awards in 1966 for The Great Race around the world ( 1965) by Blake Edwards, on the other hand in 1967 for Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966 ) by Mike Nichols.

Other films in which he worked as a sound engineer, were panic in New York ( 1953) by Eugene Lourie and Woodstock ( 1970) by Michael Wadleigh.