Gary Rydstrom
Gary R. Rydstrom (* 1959 in Chicago , Illinois , United States ) is an American sound engineer and animation director.
Life
Rydstrom attended the USC School of Cinema. Although he originally wanted to become a screenwriter or director, he soon developed a fascination for the post-production phase of films. He started his career at Skywalker Sound in 1983 after his university professor offered him the job. There he learned under Ben Burtt .
He was involved in various successful films in the following years; like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Spaceballs (1987). In the 1990s and early 2000s, he was one of the most important US sound engineers; he was responsible for the sound of over fifty productions. At the Academy Awards in 1992 he was nominated four times; for Terminator 2 - Reckoning Day and Backdraft - Men who walk through the fire in the categories “ best sound ” and “ best sound editing ”, where he finally won two of the trophies for Terminator 2 - reckoning day . He received two more Oscars in 1994 for the sound at Jurassic Park .
Rydstrom won his fifth Academy Award in 1998 for Titanic and two more the following year for Saving Private Ryan . He was nominated four more times as a sound engineer - 2000 for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace , 2002 for Die Monster AG , 2003 for Minority Report and 2004 for Finding Nemo - but never won another Oscar.
After a career of more than twenty years as a sound engineer, he decided to focus on something else as a filmmaker. With the animation studio Pixar , with whom he had worked several times as a sound engineer since its first film Die kleine Lampe in 1986, he realized the five-minute computer animation film Lifted about the Alien Stu . This film was nominated for “ best animated short film ” at the 2007 Academy Awards and was shown in 2007 as a supporting film for Pixars Ratatouille .
After Lifted , Rydstrom had the opportunity to make a movie for Pixar. In 2015 the film Strange Magic was made .
Filmography (selection)
| 1984 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | |
| 1986 | Spaceballs | |
| 1986 | The little lamp | volume |
| 1992 | Terminator 2 - Day of Reckoning | Sound; sound editing (each Oscar) |
| 1992 | Backdraft - men who go through fire | Sound; sound editing (each Oscar nomination) |
| 1994 | Jurassic Park | Sound (two Oscars) |
| 1997 | Titanic | Sound (Oscar) |
| 2000 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | Sound (Oscar nomination) |
| 2002 | the monster Inc | Sound (Oscar nomination) |
| 2003 | Minority Report | Sound (Oscar nomination) |
| 2004 | Find Nemo | Sound (Oscar nomination) |
| 2007 | Lifted | Director |
| 2015 | Strange Magic | Director |
| 2019 | Ad Astra - To the Stars (Ad Astra) | volume |
Web links
- Gary Rydstrom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Rydstrom (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Taylor Jessen: 2007 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: Three Fords, a Vespa and a Kit Bike ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Animation World Magazine , February 22, 2007.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rydstrom, Gary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rydstrom, Gary R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sound engineer and animation director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |