Willie D. Burton

Willie D. Burton (* in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is an American sound engineer. Burton was honored with numerous awards, he won the 1984 BAFTA Award for War Games - War Games. In 2006 he won the category editor at the Satellite Awards for his work on the film Dreamgirls.

With seven films Burton was nominated for the Oscar for best sound, for two of the seven films he received the award: 1989 for Bird and in 2007 for Dreamgirls. He received the other five nominations in 1979 for The Buddy Holly Story, 1981 The trip to hell, 1984 War Games - War Games, 1995 for The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile 2000.

Burton was interested in at school for radio and television technology, in Tuscaloosa, but there were no special electronics offer. So Burton moved to a relative's to Long Beach, where he attended electronics courses at the high school. After that, he was then for several years in the Navy, where he worked with sonar systems. The entry into Hollywood was hard for Burton because there were no colored sound engineer in the relevant trade union before him. 1969 Burton became the first color in the union, the engineer, but retained initially his job in the Navy. As a union member, he received offers and slowly worked his way up from the cable carrier for assistants on set before. As a boom operator, he worked up to the attitude during the 1975 series Gunsmoke. He was also the first time itself responsible for the tone in the series Police Story. In 1975 he was awarded with turn possibility we noch'n thing his first feature film as a sound - Responsible because the director Sidney Poitier trusted him, had his breakthrough Burton a year later with the film Car Wash - The freaky launderette. Since then, Burton worked on over 100 films.