John Aalberg

John O. Aalberg (born April 3, 1897 in Chicago , Illinois , † August 30, 1984 in Los Angeles County , California ) was an American film and sound engineer who was not only nominated several times for an Oscar , but also numerous other awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

Life

Aalberg began working as a film and sound engineer at the Studio Sound Department (SSD) of RKO Pictures in the Hollywood film industry in the mid- 1930s and was involved in the creation of a film for Christopher Strong by Dorothy Arzner for the first time in 1933 .

At the Academy Awards in 1937 he was first nominated for an Oscar for best sound in the film That Girl from Paris (1936). After another Oscar nomination for the best sound in 1938 in Hitting a New High (1937), he received a so-called Oscar for technical merits ( Technical Achievement Award ) at the 1939 Academy Awards for the use of compressions for variable environmental recordings in the production of Film".

After another Oscar nomination for the best tone in 1940 in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), he received two nominations at the Academy Awards in 1941 : One for best tone for Miss Kitty (1940) and together with Vernon L. Walker for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for The Isle of the Lost (1940).

Aalberg received further nominations for best sound in 1942 for Citizen Kane (1941), 1947 Isn't life beautiful? (1946), 1952 for Three Women Conquer New York (Two Tickets to Broadway, 1951) and at the 1955 Academy Awards for One Night with Susanne (Susan Slept Here, 1954).

In 1978 he received the John A. Bonner Medal "in recognition of outstanding achievements and appreciation in maintaining the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". In 1982 he received another honorary Oscar , namely the Gordon E. Sawyer Award .

Web links

• John Aalberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)