Thomas T. Moulton

Thomas T. Moulton ( born January 1, 1896 in Wausau, Wisconsin, † March 29, 1967 in Fresno, California ) was an American film and sound technicians, the twice Oscar for Best Sound as well as twice the Oscar for technical merit ( Technical Achievement Award ) received.

Biography

Moulton, who was responsible for the Studio Sound Department ( SSD) of United Artists worked, was nominated for his first work as a sound engineer at a film production at the Academy Awards in 1935 for the Academy Award for best sound and indeed for the film The Affairs of Cellini (1934 ). In 1936, a nomination for the Academy Award for The path followed in the Dark (1935 ).

At the Academy Awards in 1938, he not only received his first Academy Award for Best Sound in ... then the hurricane (1937 ), but also for the United Arists SSD came the Oscar for technical merit ( Technical Achievement Award) " for the application of sound film recording method with volume indicators with peak indicators and linear Dezibelskalen ".

Already at the Oscar ceremony in 1939 Moulton received his second Oscar for best sound, this time for my husband, the Cowboy ( 1938).

In 1940 it was another Technical Achievement Award "for the development and application of the delta dB tests in the audio recording in movies " awarded not only with Fred Albin, but it was followed for Gone with the Wind (1939 ) also re- nomination for the Oscar in the category best sound.

At the Academy Awards in 1941 he was nominated three times: first in the category Best Sound for Our Town (1940 ), on the other hand for the Oscar for best visual effects with RT Layton and Ray Binger in The long road to Cardiff (1940 ) and with Paul eagler for best Visual Effects in foreign correspondent ( 1940). After another nomination in 1942 for Best Sound in The Strange domestication of the gangsters bride Sugarpuss (1941 ), he was at the Academy Awards in 1943 for both the best sound in the film The Great Litter ( 1942) as well as with Ray Binger and Jack Cosgrove for the best visual effects in this film.

For The North Star (1943 ) Moulton was nominated for the Academy Awards in 1944 for one of the best sound, on the other hand with Ray Binger and Clarence Slifer for the best visual effects.

Other nominations for the Academy Award for Best Sound followed in 1945 for the man who did not come to the wedding ( Casanova Brown, 1944), in 1946 for mortal sin (1945 ) and most recently at the Oscar ceremony in 1953 with a song in the heart (With a Song in My Heart, 1952).

During his long career, Moulton worked with famous film directors like Gregory La Cava, Sidney Franklin, John Ford, HC Potter, Victor Fleming, Sam Wood, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Lewis Milestone, John M. Stahl and Walter Lang.