Rob Young

Rob Young (* in Sussex , New Brunswick ) is a Canadian sound engineer .

Life

Young began his career in the mid-1970s, initially working as a sound assistant on the boom . He made his debut in 1975 with the thriller Escape into fear by Daniel Mann . From the late 1970s he worked as a sound engineer. His main focus was film, but he was also active in television productions, including 26 episodes of the television series The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn .

In 1993 he was nominated for Merciless, together with Les Fresholtz , Vern Poore and Rick Alexander for an Oscar in the Best Sound category, but this year the award went to Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans . For Clint Eastwood - Western he was in the same year for the BAFTA Film Award in the category Best Sound nominated. In 1998 he was nominated a second time for the BAFTA Film Award, this time for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet . At this award ceremony, too, he went empty-handed, as he did before when he was nominated for the Genie Award in 1983.

1976: The Island of the Monsters (The Food of the Gods)
1979: Bear Island in Hell of the Arctic (Bear Island)
1982: Rambo (First Blood)
1985: Rambo II - The Mission (Rambo: First Blood Part II)
1987: Roxanne
1988: Accused (The Accused)
1990: The Russia House (The Russia House)
1992: Merciless (Unforgiven)
1995: Jumanji
1996: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet)
2000: Mission to Mars
2003: X-Men 2
2004: Riddick: The Chronicles of Riddick
2006: Night at the Museum (Night at the Museum)
2010: Percy Jackson - Thieves in Olympus (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief)

1993 : Oscar nomination for Best Tone for Merciless
1993: BAFTA Film Award nomination in the category Best Sound for Merciless
1998: BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Sound for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet