Donald O. Mitchell

Donald O. Mitchell (born before 1973) is an American sound engineer who once received an Oscar for best sound .

Life

Mitchell began his career as a sound engineer in the Hollywood film industry in 1973 during the Trials and has been involved in the production of nearly 120 films.

For the time of the exams , he and Larry Jost were nominated for the Oscar for the best sound for the first time at the 1974 Academy Awards. This was followed by numerous other nominations for the Oscar in this category: 1977 with Douglas O. Williams , Richard Tyler and Harold M. Etherington for Trans-America-Express (1976), 1981 with Bill Nicholson , David J. Kimball and Les Lazarowitz for Wie a wild bull (1980) and 1984 with Rick Kline , Kevin O'Connell and James R. Alexander for Time of Tenderness (1983).

At the 1986 Academy Awards , he was nominated twice for the Oscar for best sound: on the one hand with Kline, O'Connell and David M. Ronne for Silverado (1985), on the other hand with Michael Minkler , Gerry Humphreys and Christopher Newman for A Chorus Line (1985). Other Oscar nominations followed in 1987 with O'Connell, Kline and William B. Kaplan for Top Gun (1986) and in 1990 with O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Keith A. Wester for Black Rain .

He also received the Oscar for Best Sound at the 1990 Academy Awards, starring Gregg Rudloff , Elliot Tyson and Russell Williams II for Glory (1989).

He received other Oscar nominations in this category in 1991 with Charles M. Wilborn , Rick Kline and Kevin O'Connell for Days of Thunder (1990) and in 1993 with Frank A. Montaño , Rick Hart and Scott D. Smith for Red Alert ( 1992).

For Auf der Flucht (1993) he was nominated for an Oscar in 1994 with Michael Herbick , Frank A. Montaño and Scott D. Smith, but also won with John Leveque, Bruce Stambler, Becky Sullivan, Scott D. Smith, Michael Herbick and Frank A. Montaño 1994 award for the best sound of the British Academy of film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and with Herbick, Montaño and Smith the price of the guild of sound engineer (Cinema Audio Society), the CAS award.

He received two nominations for Das Kartell (1994): firstly in 1995 with Herbick, Montaño and Art Rochester for an Oscar, secondly with these also for the CAS Award for outstanding performance in sound.

Most recently, Mitchell with Frank A. Montaño, Michael Herbick and Petur Hliddal was nominated for the Oscar for best sound at the 1996 Academy Awards, namely for Batman Forever (1995).

Web links

• Donald O. Mitchell in the Internet Movie Database (English)