Lee Orloff

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Lee Orloff (born before 1984) is an American sound engineer who has won an Oscar , a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Satellite Award for best sound.

Life

1980s and 1990s

Orloff began his career as a sound engineer in the Hollywood film industry in 1984 with the thriller Blood Simple - A Murderous Night (Original title: Blood Simple) by Ethan and Joel Coen with John Getz , Frances McDormand and Dan Hedaya . In the course of his career, which continues to this day, he has worked in the production of 70 films and television series .

At the 1990 Academy Awards , he was first nominated for the Oscar for Best Sound , along with Don J. Bassman , Kevin F. Cleary and Richard Overton , for the science fiction film Abyss (The Abyss, 1989) by James Cameron with Ed Harris , Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michael Biehn .

In 1992 he won the Academy Award for Best Sound with Tom Johnson , Gary Rydstrom and Gary Summers for the science fiction film Terminator 2 - Judgment Day, 1991 with Arnold Schwarzenegger, also directed by James Cameron , Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong . For this film, he also won the British Academy Film Award for Best Sound with Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom and Gary Summers .

Orloff received another Oscar nomination for best sound, along with Chris Carpenter , Doug Hemphill and Bill W. Benton. The 1994 Academy Awards for Walter Hill's Indian and cavalry film Geronimo - Eine Legende (1993) with Jason Patric , Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall .

In 1995, together with Michael Minkler and Bob Beemer, he was also nominated for the first time for the Cinema Audio Society Prize (CAS Award) for outstanding performance in sound mixing, namely for True Lies (True Lies, 1994) by James Cameron with Arnold Schwarzenegger , Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold .

In 1996, Chris Jenkins, Ron Bartlett and Mark Smith received another CAS Award nomination for outstanding sound engineering for the crime film Heat (1995) directed by Michael Mann with Al Pacino , Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer .

At the 2000 Academy Awards he was again nominated for Best Sound, this time with Andy Nelson and Doug Hemphill for Michael Mann's thriller Insider (The Insider, 1999) starring Russell Crowe , Al Pacino and Christopher Plummer .

2000s

2001 came along with Kevin O'Connell and Greg P. Russell a nomination for the Oscar for best sound for the war film The Patriot (The Patriot, 2000) with the leading actors Mel Gibson , Heath Ledger and Joely Richardson . For this film, he, Kevin O'Connell and Greg P. Russell were also nominated for a 2001 CAS Award for Outstanding Sound Engineering Achievement.

Along with Christopher Boyes , David Parker and David E. Campbell was Orloff in 2004 for an Oscar for best sound in the pirate movie Pirates of the Caribbean (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003) by Gore Verbinski with Johnny Depp , Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush nominated. Together with Christopher Boyes, George Watters II, David Parker and David E. Campbell, he was also nominated for the BAFTA Film Award for best sound. He was also nominated with Christopher Boyes, David Parker and David E. Campbell for this film in 2004 for the CAS Award for Outstanding Sound Engineering Achievement.

In 2005 he was again nominated for the BAFTA Film Award for best sound, this time with Elliott Koretz, Michael Minkler and Myron Nettinga for the Michael Mann-directed thriller Collateral (2004) with Tom Cruise , Jamie Foxx and Jada Pinkett Smith . In addition, he won the Golden Satellite Award for the best sound for this film together with Elliott Koretz, Michael Minkler and Myron Nettinga.

His last Oscar nomination for Best Sound received Orloff together with Paul Massey and Christopher Boyes Oscars in 2007 for the staged also by Gore Verbinski sequel Pirates of the Caribbean - Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006), in which Keira Knightley played a leading role alongside Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom . For this film he was also nominated again for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Sound at the British Academy Film Awards 2007 with Christopher Boyes, George Watters II and Paul Massey. In addition, he and Paul Massey and Christopher Boyes received a 2007 CAS Award nomination for the film for outstanding sound engineering.

The Satellite Awards 2007 he was with Christopher Boyes, Paul Massey and George Watters II for the re-created and directed by Gore Verbinski pirate movie Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007) with Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Tom Hollander nominated for the Golden Satellite Award for Best Sound.

2011 Orloff was with Alan Meyerson, Christopher Boyes and Paul Massey for the time from Rob Marshall with Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush directed film Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 2011) for nominated the CAS Award for outstanding sound engineering performance.

In addition to his work as a sound engineer, he is also involved in numerous film institutions and is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), member of the board of the Cinema Audio Society (CAS), member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA) as well as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and its executive committee of the audio engineering department.

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personal data
SURNAME Orloff, Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1984