Robert Knudson
Robert " Buzz " Irving Knudson ( born September 29, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, † January 21, 2006 in Columbia, South Carolina) was an American film and sound engineer, who is also the both the Oscar for best sound as British Academy Film Award in the same category won several times.
Biography
Knudson played some time as a pitcher in baseball leagues and learned during this time his wife Jean Knudson, with whom he was married for almost 55 years from 1951 until his death. In 1960 he was recording engineer for the independent Filmtonbearbeitungsfirma Todd - AO and got there in 1982 as President of the Company on before he was after 1990 until his retirement in 2003 Vice - Chairman of the Board and an adviser to Todd - AO.
After Tom Jones 1963 - the first time participated Between the bed and the gallows at the creation of a movie, and began his career in the film industry in Hollywood in the early 1970s.
At the Academy Awards in 1973, he received along with David Hildyard first time an Oscar for Best Sound as well as a Stella Award ( later British Academy Film Award) for Best Sound in Cabaret ( 1972), with the price also went to Arthur Piantadosi. In the next Oscar ceremony in 1974, he shared with Christopher Newman his second Oscar for Best Sound for the film The Exorcist (1973 ) and together with Newman, Jean -Louis Ducarme, Fred J. Brown, Bob Fine, Ross Taylor, Ron Nagle Doc Siegel, Gonzalo Gavira and Hal Landaker an additional nomination for the British film Award for best Sound.
For the film A Star Is Born ( 1976) he received with Dan Wallin, Robert J. Glass and Tom Overton both a nomination for an Academy Award in 1977 as well as 1978 R. Glass, Marvin I. Kosberg, T. Overton, Josef von Stroheim and D. Wallin for the BAFTA Award. At the Academy Awards in 1978, he was nominated two times: first with R. Glass, Richard Tyler, and Jean -Louis Ducarme for Breathless with fear (1977) and next to it along with R. Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene S. Cantamessa for Close Encounters of the third Kind (1977). For this he was with G. S. Cantamessa, D. MacDougall, R. Glass, Stephen Katz, Frank E. Warner, Richard Oswald, David M. Horton, Sam Gemette, Gary S. Gerlich, Chester Slomka and Neil Burrow also again in 1979 for the BAFTA Award for Best tone nominated. Other nominations for the Academy Award for Best Sound followed in 1979 with R. Glass, D. MacDougall and Jack Solomon for Hooper ( Hooper, 1979) and in 1980, together with R. Glass, D. MacDougall and GS Cantamessa for 1941 - Which way leads to Hollywood (1980).
For E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982 ) he received in 1983 not only together with R. Glass, Don Digirolamo and GS Cantamessa his third Oscar for best sound, but again with Charles L. Campbell, Glass, Digirolamo and Cantamessa an additional nomination for the BAFTA Award in this category. Also for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound and was nominated along with James E. Webb, R. Glass and D. Digirolamo for the tone in Flashdance. For Empire of the Sun (1987 ) he was in 1988 with D. Digirolamo, John S. Boyd and Tony Dawe for an Oscar, as well as with T. Dawe, CL Campbell, Louis L. Edemann nominated for another BAFTA Award for Best Sound. His last nomination for an Oscar for best sound he got together with J. Boyd, D. Digirolamo and T. Dawe at the Oscar ceremony in 1989.
For his life's work he was awarded in 2000 by the Guild of sound engineer ( Cinema Audio Society ( CAS) ) than other film award the Career Achievement Award.
During his career Knudson, who also edited the sound in Scarface (1983 ) worked with film directors such as Bob Fosse, William Friedkin, Frank Pierson, Steven Spielberg, Adrian Lyne, Hal Needham and Robert Zemeckis.