Richard Hymns

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Richard "Twig" John Hymns (born July 18, 1947 ) is an American sound engineer who won three Oscar for best sound editing and other film awards and was nominated for numerous film awards.

Life

Twig Hymns began his career as a sound engineer in the Hollywood film industry in 1980 for the film The Island and has worked on the production of nearly seventy films to date.

Hymns was first nominated in 1989 together with Ben Burtt for the Oscar for best sound editing in the fantasy film Willow (1988) by director Ron Howard with Val Kilmer , Joanne Whalley and Warwick Davis in the lead roles .

At the 1990 Academy Awards , he and Burtt won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989) by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford , Sean Connery and Denholm Elliott . In 1990 he received his first nomination for the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Film Award) for best sound for this film together with Tony Dawe , Ben Burtt , Gary Summers and Shawn Murphy .

He, Randy Thom, Jon Huck and David Parker received another nomination for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Sound in 1991 for Wild at Heart - The Story of Sailor and Lula (1990) by David Lynch with Nicolas Cage , Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe .

He received a second Oscar nomination for best sound editing in 1992 with Gary Rydstrom for Backdraft - Men Who Go Through Fire (1991) by Ron Howard with Kurt Russell , William Baldwin and Robert De Niro . In 1992 he was also the first time for the Golden Reel Award of Motion Picture Sound Editors nominated, with Gary Rydstrom, Ken Fischer, Gloria S. Borders, Teresa Eckton, Robert Shoup and Tim Holland for Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (1991) James Cameron with Arnold Schwarzenegger , Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong .

In 1994 he and Rydstrom won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing in Jurassic Park (1993) from Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Attenborough , Sam Neill and Laura Dern . He, Rydstrom, Ron Judkins, Gary Summers and Shawn Murphy were also nominated for the 1994 BAFTA Film Award for Best Sound in This Film.

Hymns and Rydstrom won another Oscar for best sound editing at the 1999 Academy Awards for Steven Spielberg's 1998 war film Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks , Tom Sizemore and Edward Burns . For this film, he, Rydstrom, Ron Judkins, Gary Summers and Andy Nelson also received the 1999 BAFTA Film Award for Best Sound. In addition, he, Rydstrom and their staff also won the Golden Reel Award for the best sound editing in dialogue and the Golden Reel Award for the best sound editing in sound effects.

For the thriller Fight Club (1999) by David Fincher with Edward Norton , Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter , he and Ren Klyce were again nominated for an Oscar in 2000 for best sound editing. He, Ren Klyce and their staff were also nominated for the Golden Reel Award for the best sound editing in the sound effects in this film.

In 2002, Hymns, Rydstrom and their collaborators for AI - Artificial Intelligence (2001) from Steven Spielberg with Haley Joel Osment , Frances O'Connor and Jude Law received nominations for the Golden Reel Awards for the best sound editing for the dialogues and sound effects.

Together with Gary Rydstrom, an Oscar nomination followed in 2003 for best sound editing in the science fiction film thriller Minority Report (2002) by Steven Spielberg with Tom Cruise , Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton in the leading roles. In addition, he, Rydstrom and the staff for this film were nominated for the Golden Reel Award for the best sound editing in the dialogues and sound effects in this film. In addition, he and Rydstrom received nominations for the OFCS Award and the Golden Satellite Award for Best Sound for this film .

2003 received together with Ren Klyce another nomination for the Golden Reel Award for the best sound editing in the sound effects in Panic Room (2002) by David Fincher with Jodie Foster , Kristen Stewart and Forest Whitaker .

In 2006 he, Ewa Sztompke and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle were nominated for the Golden Reel Award for the best sound editing in the dialogues in the film Munich (2005), also directed by Steven Spielberg, with Eric Bana , Geoffrey Rush and Daniel Craig .

Hymns received his final Golden Reel Award nomination for best sound editing in sound effects in 2009 with Ben Burtt and Luke Dunn Gielmuda for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) by Steven Spielberg with Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and Karen Allen .

At the 2012 Academy Awards , he was again nominated with Rydstrom for the Oscar in the category of best sound editing for the film Companions (2011), also directed by Steven Spielberg, with Jeremy Irvine , Peter Mullan and Emily Watson . In addition, he, Rydstrom and Stuart Wilson, Tom Johnson and Andy Nelson have been nominated for the BAFTA Film Award and the Golden Satellite Award for the best sound in this film.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1990 : Oscar for the best sound editing
  • 1994 : Oscar for the best sound editing
  • 1999 : Oscar for the best sound editing
  • 1999: BAFTA Film Award for the best sound
  • 1999: Golden Reel Award for the best sound editing in the dialogues
  • 1999: Golden Reel Award for the best sound editing in sound effects

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personal data
SURNAME Hymns, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hymns, Richard John (full name); Hymns, Twig (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1947