John O. Aalberg

John O. Aalberg ( born April 3, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois; † August 30, 1984 in Los Angeles County, California ) was an American film and sound engineer, who not only was several times nominated for an Oscar, but also numerous other Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded.

Biography

Aalberg began in the mid 1930s his work as a film and sound engineer at Studio Sound Department ( SSD) of RKO Pictures in the film industry in Hollywood and was involved for the first time in 1933 Christopher Strong by Dorothy Arzner in the creation of a film.

At the Academy Awards in 1937, he was nominated for the first time for an Oscar for the best sound in the film That Girl from Paris ( 1936). After another Oscar nomination for Best Sound in 1938 Hitting a New High ( 1937), he received at the Oscar ceremony in 1939 a so-called Oscar for technical merit ( Technical Achievement Award) " for the application of compressions for variable environmental record in the production of films ".

After another Oscar nomination for Best Sound 1940 in The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939), he received at the Oscar ceremony in 1941 two nominations: First for the best sound for Miss Kitty (1940 ) and together with Vernon L. Walker for the Oscar for best visual effects for Swiss Family Robinson ( 1940).

Further nominations for Best Sound Aalberg received in 1942 for Citizen Kane (1941 ), 1947 Is not life beautiful? (1946 ), 1952 Three women conquer New York ( Two Tickts to Broadway, 1951) as well as at the Academy Awards in 1955 for A Night with Susanne (Susan Slept Here, 1954).

In 1978 he received the John A. Bonner Medal " in recognition of outstanding achievement and appreciation in the maintenance of high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ." In 1982, he received another honorary Oscar namely the Gordon E. Sawyer Award.