Hammond Peek

Hammond Peek is an American sound engineer who won the Oscar for best sound among other twice.

Biography

Peek began in 1981 as an engineer in the documentary short film Man of the Trees and has since been involved in more than twenty other film productions.

For The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship (2001) he was nominated for the Academy Awards in 2002 along with Christopher Boyes Michael Semanick and Gethin Creagh for the Oscar for best sound. Further nominations for this movie took place in 2002 with David Farmer, Christopher Boyes, Gethin Creagh, Michael Semanick, Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound, 2002, Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick and Gethin Creagh for the price guild of sound engineer ( Cinema audio Society Award ) for outstanding achievements in film sound. Back in 2001, won Creagh, Boyes and Semanick for this movie the Golden Satellite Award for best sound editing.

For The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) he received further nominations namely 2003 Boyes, Semanick and Michael Hedges for an Oscar in 2003 with Ethan Van der Ryn, David Farmer, Mike Hopkins, Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick and Michael hedges for the BAFTA Award, 2003 Boyes, Semanick and hedges for the CAS Award and in 2002 for a Golden Satellite Award for best sound editing.

In 2004 he finally won the first Oscar for Best Sound and indeed with Boyes, Semanick and hedges for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003). He was also for this 2004 together with Ethan Van der Ryn, Mike Hopkins, David Farmer, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges and Michael Semanick for another BAFTA Award and in 2004 with Boyes, hedges and Semanick for another CAS Award for outstanding achievement in sound equipment nominated in a film.

His second Oscar for best sound he received at the Academy Awards in 2006 along with Boyes, Semanick and hedges of King Kong ( 2005). At the same time followed for this 2006 film was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Sound with Christopher Boyes, Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn and 2006 Boyes, Semanick and hedges for the CAS Award for outstanding achievement in sound mixing with movies.