Nathan Boxer

Nathan Boxer (born June 22, 1925 in Wawarsing , New York , † December 3, 2009 in Rosendale , New York) was an American sound engineer .

Life

Boxer began his career in 1955 as an uncredited sound assistant on Stanley Kubrick's film noir The Tiger of New York . From the mid-1960s he worked as a sound engineer and was involved in numerous film projects in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Godfather - Part II and Cotton Club . For Francis Ford Coppola's thriller The Dialogue , he and Art Rochester , Michael Evje and Walter Murch received the BAFTA Film Award in the category Best Sound in 1975 . In 1980 he received the Oscar in the Best Sound category for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now together with Walter Murch, Mark Berger and Richard Beggs . For this he was nominated again for the BAFTA Film Award, but could not win the award. He ended his film career in the late 1980s.

Boxer was a professor of film at Hamilton College . He died in 2009 at the age of 84.

Filmography (selection)

• 1955: The Tiger of New York (Killer's Kiss)
• 1969: Never Love a Stranger (The Rain People)
• 1970: No song for my father (I Never Sang for My Father)
• 1974: Dialogue (The Conversation)
• 1974: The Godfather - Part II (The Godfather Part II)
• 1979: Apocalypse Now
• 1982: Still of the Night (Still of the Night)
• 1984: Cotton Club (The Cotton Club)
• 1985: DARYL - The Extraordinary (DARYL)
• 1986: A gift is still too expensive (The Money Pit)

Awards

• 1980 : Oscar for Best Sound for Apocalypse Now
• 1975: BAFTA Film Award in the Best Sound category for Der Dialog
• 1980: BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Sound for Apocalypse Now

Web links

• Nathan Boxer in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kirkland College ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)