David MacMillan (sound engineer)

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David MacMillan (* in Northern Ireland ) is a British- Canadian - American engineer who in the course of his work with three Oscars was excellent. Since 1973 he has worked on more than 80 film productions.

Life

MacMillan's family immigrated to Canada from Northern Ireland after he was born . His career began as a sound assistant at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , for which he soon made the sound mix for documentaries. After moving from Toronto to San Francisco , he met Francis Ford Coppola , who never hired a stranger to wire up the production studio of Liebe . When the work could not be completed on time, he set up the most necessary equipment on the floor, where he, Coppola, Walter Murch , Billy Neal and he completed the film within two weeks in time for the 1969 Cannes International Film Festival . After the film was awarded a Golden Palm , they continued working with American Zoetrope . Coppola campaigned for his green card and MacMillan's membership in the union. From 1971 he started his own business. In 1984 he received his first Oscar for the literary film The Stuff That Heroes Are Made Of , three years later he moved to Los Angeles because of work. In 1995 and 1996 further Oscars followed for the action film Speed and for the cinematic implementation of the near-catastrophe of the Apollo 13 moon mission .

MacMillan has worked with Oliver Stone , Ron Howard , Alan Parker , Lawrence Kasdan , Sydney Pollack , Philip Kaufman , Tony Scott , Joel Schumacher , Nora Ephron , Mike Nichols , Kathryn Bigelow , Jan de Bont , Jay Roach and Judd Apatow , among others . He has been teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles for several years . (As of 2014)

Awards

Oscar

British Academy Film Award

Cinema Audio Society Award

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David MacMillan on his career, accessed February 17, 2016. (English)
  2. ↑ CAS Career Achievement Award 2014 for David MacMillan in Variety , accessed on February 27, 2016. (English)
  3. ↑ 56th Academy Awards . Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ 67th Academy Awards . Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  5. ↑ 68th Academy Awards . Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved February 27, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME MacMillan, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian-American sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Northern Ireland