Mike Le Mare

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Mike Le Mare (born October 31, 1938 in the USA ) is an American sound engineer .

Life

Le Mare began his career in the early 1960s and made his feature film debut in 1960 with Federico Fellini's classic film The Sweet Life . With Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up in 1966 he was involved in another classic of the 1960s. In 1983 he received two Oscar nominations for Das Boot , in the categories Best Sound and Best Sound Editing . However, both awards went to Steven Spielberg's E.T. - The alien .

Le Mare worked for a long time with the director John Frankenheimer . Between 1989 and 2002 he worked on ten of his films, starting with Dead Bang . Other joint films include, among others, In Love with Peril , Ronin and Wild Christmas . He retired from the film business in 2006, his last work being the coming-of-age film Whirlygirl by Jim Wilson .

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Individual evidence

  1. Oscars 1983 (English)