Bruce Stambler

Bruce Stambler is an American sound engineer who has won an Oscar for best sound editing, a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Award) for best sound and a Primetime Emmy for outstanding sound editing in a series.

Life

1980s

Stambler his career as a sound engineer and specialist in sound editor began in the film industry in Hollywood at the 1982 comedy film The Most Beautiful House of Pleasure in Texas (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) by Colin Higgins with Burt Reynolds , Dolly Parton and Dom DeLuise in the lead roles. He has worked on the production of over eighty films to date.

In 1983 he was nominated for the first time for the Primetime Emmy for outstanding sound editing in a television series , with Walt Jenevein, Barney Cabral, John Detra, Dennis Diltz, Sam Gemette, Robert Gravenor, Phil Haberman, Jerry Jacobson, Marvin I. Kosberg, Billy Mauch , Anthony Palk, Edward L. Sandlin, Kyle Wright, Sam F. Shaw, William Shenberg and Andrew Torres for the 1982 pilot of the NBC- produced television series Knight Rider, starring David Hasselhoff .

He won the Primetime Emmy in 1985 for outstanding sound editing in a television series with Charles E. Moran, Bruce Bell, Victor B. Lackey, Ian MacGregor-Scott, Carl Mahakian, John Oettinger, Bernard F. Pincus, Warren Smith, Michael D. Wilhoit, Kyle Wright, Paul Wittenberg and Jerry Cohen for the pilot and the first episode of the first season ( Hot Plaster Florida , Brother's Keepers) of the television series Miami Vice, also produced by NBC .

Stambler received another nomination for the Primetime Emmy for outstanding sound editing in a television series in 1986 with Kyle Wright, Bruce Bell, Barney Cabral, Phil Haberman, Mark Hollingsworth, Donlee Jorgensen, Jimmy Ling, Bernard F. Pincus, Vern Shaw, Michael D. Wilhoit , Richard Marx and Laurie Higgins Tobias for the 1985 pilot ( dangerous weapons , Deep Freeze) of the NBC television series The Specialists on the Move (Misfits of Science).

1990s

At the 1993 Academy Awards , Stambler was first nominated for an Academy Award for Best Editing , starring John Leveque for Andrew Davis' directed Alert: Red (Under Siege, 1992) starring Steven Seagal , Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey . In the next Oscar ceremony in 1994 , he was with John Leveque for the damage also directed by Andrew Davis feature film The Fugitive (The Fugitive, 1993) with Harrison Ford as' Dr. Richard Kimble 'as well as Tommy Lee Jones and Sela Ward in other leading roles have been nominated again for the Oscar for best sound editing. Stambler, John Leveque, Becky Sullivan, Scott D. Smith, Donald O. Mitchell, Michael Herbick and Frank A. Montaño also won the 1994 British Academy Film Award for Best Sound for this film .

Stambler and John Leveque received another Oscar nomination for best sound editing in 1995 for Das Kartell (Clear and Present Danger, 1994) by Phillip Noyce with Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe and Anne Archer . At the 1996 Academy Awards , he and John Leveque were again nominated for the Oscar for best sound editing, this time for the comic film Batman Forever (1995) directed by Joel Schumacher , with Val Kilmer as ' Batman ', Tommy Lee Jones as ' Two-Face ' and Jim Carrey as ' Riddler '.

1997 won Stambler finally the Oscar for best sound editing in the action film The Ghost and the Darkness (The Ghost and The Darkness, 1996) by Stephen Hopkins with Val Kilmer in the role of the British soldier, engineer, hunter and author John Henry Patterson and Michael Douglas and John Kani in other roles.

2000s

In 2002, Stambler was nominated twice for the Motion Picture Sound Editors ' Golden Reel Award for the action film The Fast and the Furious (2001) by Rob Cohen with Paul Walker , Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodríguez : On the one hand with Jay Kidneyberg and Becky Sullivan , Mildred Iatrou, Donald L. Warner Jr., Robert Troy, Paul Curtis, William Dotson, Cathie Speakman, Nicholas Vincent Korda and Lee Lemont in the category of best sound editing for dialogue and dubbing in an American feature film, and also with Jay Leberberg , Michael Dressel, Steve Mann, Kim Secrist, Steve Nelson, Howard Neiman, Glenn Hoskinson, Tim Walston, Charles Deenen, Scott Curtis and Dan Yale in the category of best sound editing for effects and noise-making in an American feature film.

Stambler with Michael Dressel, Mike Chock, Harry Cohen, Ken Fischer, Elliott Koretz, Steve Mann, Steve Nelson, Michael Payne, received another nomination for the Golden Reel Award in the category of best sound editing for effects and noise-making in an American film. Kim Secrist, Tim Walston, Richard E. Yawn, Shawn Sykora and Frank A. Fuller Jr. for the action film xXx - Triple X (xXx, 2002) with Vin Diesel, Asia Argento and Marton Csokas, also directed by Rob Cohen .