Gethin Creagh

Gethin Creagh is a New Zealand sound engineer and sound engineer .

Life

Creagh trained as a sound engineer at Television New Zealand and began his career on the film staff in 1973 with Australian television. From 1980 he worked as a sound mixer for film, his debut was Peter Collinson's drama The Earthling . This was followed by New Zealand and Australian productions such as BMX-Bandits and Quiet Earth - The Last Experiment . In 1994 he was nominated as sound engineer for Jane Campion's drama Das Piano for the BAFTA Film Award in the category Best Sound . With The Lord of the Rings: The Companions and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers he was involved in the first two films of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy in the early 2000s . In 2002 he was nominated for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, along with Christopher Boyes , Michael Semanick and Hammond Peek, for an Oscar in the Best Sound category, but this year the award went to the war film Black Hawk Down by director Ridley Scott . The Lord of the Rings: The Companions , Moulin Rouge won the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony that same year . Creagh was nominated fourteen times between 1984 and 2010 for the American Film Institute's AFI Award , which he won six times.

Filmography (selection)

• 1981: Gallipoli
• 1983: BMX bandits
• 1985: Quiet Earth - The Last Experiment (The Quiet Earth)
• 1992: Escape from the Ice (Map of the Human Heart)
• 1993: The Piano (The Piano)
• 1994: Betty and Her Sisters (Little Women)
• 1994: Rapa Nui - Rebellion in Paradise (Rapa Nui)
• 1996: The Frighteners
• 1998: Babe: Pig in the City (Babe: Pig in the City)
• 1999: Snow Falling on Cedars (Snow Falling on Cedars)
• 2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
• 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
• 2005: Boogeyman - The Black Man (Boogeyman)
• 2005: With Heart and Hand (The World's Fastest Indian)
• 2007: 30 Days of Night
• 2010: Tomorrow, When the War Began
• 2011: The Groomsmen (A Few Best Men)
• 2014: I, Frankenstein

Awards (selection)

• 2002 : Oscar nomination for Best Sound for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• 1994: BAFTA Film Award nomination in the Best Sound category for Das Piano
• 2002: BAFTA Film Award nomination in the Best Sound category for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Web links

• Gethin Creagh in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} NZ On Screen (English)