Ivan Sharrock

Ivan Sharrock (born July 17, 1941 in Cornwall , England ) is a British sound engineer who not only won an Oscar but also the BAFTA Award for best sound .

Life

Sharrock began his career as a sound engineer in 1967 for the television film The Life and Times of John Huston, Esq. and has been involved in around 90 film productions to date.

In 1982, he and Don Sharpe and Bill Rowe received the BAFTA Award for Best Sound in the film The French Lieutenant's Mistress (1981). Another BAFTA nomination followed in 1985 with Gordon K. McCallum , Les Wiggins and Roy Baker for Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984).

At the Academy Awards in 1988 , he and Bill Rowe received the Oscar for best sound in The Last Emperor (1987). For this film he was nominated for another BAFTA Award in 1989 together with Bill Rowe and Les Wiggins.

He received another nomination for this award in 1997 with Mark Berger , Pat Jackson , Walter Murch , Christopher Newman and David Parker . For the film U-571 (2000) he won an Oscar for the best sound again in 2001 with Steve Maslow , Gregg Landaker and Rick Kline, and for the film award of the Guild of Sound Engineers ( Cinema Audio Society ) for the most outstanding achievement in sound engineering (CAS Award) nominated. He received another nomination for the Oscar for best sound with Tom Fleischman and Eugene Gearty at the 2003 Academy Awards for Gangs of New York and was nominated for the 2003 BAFTA Award for best sound with Fleischman, Gearty and Philip Stockton .

In 2004, along with Eddy Joseph , Walter Murch , Mike Prestwood Smith and Matthew Gough, they were nominated for the BAFTA Award for best sound in the film On the Road to Cold Mountain (2003).

Most recently, Sharrock was nominated with Andy Nelson and Anna Behlmer for Blood Diamond (2006) at the 2007 Academy Awards for the Oscar for Best Sound and in 2007 for the CAS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing.

Other well-known films that he worked on as a sound engineer were Shining (1980) and The Da Vinci Code (2003).

Web links

• Ivan Sharrock in the Internet Movie Database (English)