Greg P. Russell

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Greg P. Russell is an American sound engineer who has been nominated 16 times for an Oscar for best sound and numerous other awards, but has only won one Daytime Emmy Award .

Life

Russell began his career as a sound engineer in the Hollywood film industry in 1970 with the concert film Woodstock and has been involved in the production of nearly 200 films to date. In 1989 he won his only film award to date , the Daytime Emmy Award with Jeffrey J. Haboush for outstanding sound in the film Muppet Babies (1984) produced by Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS ).

At the 1990 Academy Awards , he was first nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound, starring Donald O. Mitchell , Kevin O'Connell and Keith A. Wester for Black Rain (1989). For The Rock - Rock of Decision (1996) he not only received his second Oscar nomination with O'Connell and Wester in 1997 , but was also nominated with this for the Prize of the Guild of Sound Technicians (Cinema Audio Society), the CAS Award. He received his next Oscar nomination for best tone with O'Connell and Art Rochester at the 1998 Academy Awards for Con Air (1997).

At the 1999 Academy Awards he was nominated twice: on the one hand with Kevin O'Connell and Pud Cusack for The Mask of Zorro (1998), on the other hand with O'Connell and Keith A. Wester for Armageddon - The Last Judgment (1998). With O'Connell and Cusack and Wester, he was again nominated for the CAS Award for best sound for both films. In 2001 he was O'Connell and Lee Orloff for an Oscar for sound in The Patriot (2000) and again with the other two for the CAS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound.

The next Academy Award nomination for Best Sound followed in 2002 with Peter J. Devin and Kevin O'Connell for Pearl Harbor (2001). This film was also nominated for the CAS Award. At the 2003 Academy Awards , he, O'Connell and Ed Novick were nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound in Spider-Man (2002). This was also followed by a nomination for the CAS Award for outstanding performance in sound in a film. He was also nominated several times for the film Spider-Man 2 (2004): first with Kevin O'Connell, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Joseph Geisinger for the Oscar 2005 , second with O'Connell, Haboush and Paul NJ Ottoson for the British Academy Film Award of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), third with O'Connell, Haboush and Geisinger for the CAS Award 2005 and fourth with O'Connell, Haboush, Ottoson, Geisinger and Susan Dudeck for the best sound editing at the Satellite Awards 2004 .

He received another Oscar nomination with O'Connell and Rick Kline and John Pritchett at the 2006 Academy Awards for The Geisha (2005). For this film, too, he and the three other sound engineers were nominated for the CAS Award. He received another 2006 Satellite Awards nomination for The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code (2006) along with O'Connell and Anthony J. Ciccolini III . In 2007 he was nominated with O'Connell and Fernando Cámara for another Oscar for best sound, this time for Apocalypto (2006).

For Transformers (2007) he was nominated with Kevin O'Connell and Peter J. Devlin not only for an Oscar in 2008 for the best sound, but with the two also for the CAS Award for Outstanding Services in Sound. For the follow-up film Transformers - Die Rache (2009) he was again nominated several times: On the one hand with Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson for the Oscar for the best sound in 2010 , on the other hand with them for another CAS award and finally for the prize for the best sound editing at the Satellite Awards 2009 with Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl, Patterson and Summers.

At the 2011 Academy Awards , he was nominated for another Academy Award for Best Sound, starring Jeffrey J. Haboush, William Sarokin and Scott Millan for Salt (2010). In 2012 he received his 15th nomination for the film Transformers 3 (with Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin). Another nomination followed for James Bond 007: Skyfall . At the 2017 Academy Awards, he was initially nominated for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi ; due to a rule violation, however, his nomination was withdrawn.

Web links

• Greg P. Russell in the Internet Movie Database (English)