Hammond Peek

Hammond Peek is a sound engineer from New Zealand who has received two Oscar awards for best sound .

Life

Peek began working as a sound engineer for the documentary short film Man of the Trees in 1981 and has since been involved in more than twenty other film productions.

For The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) he was nominated for the Oscar for Best Sound at the 2002 Academy Awards, along with Christopher Boyes , Michael Semanick and Gethin Creagh . Further nominations for this film were made in 2002 with David Farmer, Christopher Boyes, Gethin Creagh, Michael Semanick, Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins for the BAFTA Award for best sound , in 2002 with Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick and Gethin Creagh for the prize Guild of Sound Technicians ( Cinema Audio Society Award) for outstanding services in film sound technology. In 2001, Creagh, Boyes and Semanick won the Golden Satellite Award for best sound editing for this film .

For The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) he received further nominations, namely 2003 with Boyes, Semanick and Michael Hedges for the Oscar, in 2003 with Ethan Van der Ryn, David Farmer, Mike Hopkins, Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick and Michael Hedges for the BAFTA Award, 2003 with Boyes, Semanick and Hedges for the CAS Award and in 2002 for the Golden Satellite Award for the best sound editing.

In 2004 he won the Oscar for best tone for the first time with Boyes, Semanick and Hedges for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). At the same time he was there in 2004 together with Ethan Van der Ryn, Mike Hopkins, David Farmer, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges and Michael Semanick for another BAFTA Award and in 2004 with Boyes, Hedges and Semanick for another CAS Award for outstanding services in the Sound engineering nominated for a film.

He received his second Oscar for best sound at the 2006 Academy Awards along with Boyes, Semanick and Hedges for King Kong (2005). This film was also nominated in 2006 for the BAFTA Award for best sound with Christopher Boyes, Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn and in 2006 with Boyes, Semanick and Hedges for the CAS Award for outstanding merits in sound mixing in movies.

Web links

• Hammond Peek in the Internet Movie Database (English)