Robert Knudson

Robert "Buzz" Irving Knudson (born September 29, 1925 in Los Angeles , California , † January 21, 2006 in Columbia , South Carolina ) was an American film and sound engineer who won both the Oscar for best sound and the Won British Academy Film Award in the same category several times.

biography

Knudson played as a pitcher in baseball leagues for some time and during this time met his wife Jean Knudson, with whom he was married for almost 55 years from 1951 until his death. In 1960 he became a recording engineer at the independent film sound editing company Todd-AO , where he was promoted to President of the company in 1982, before he was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and advisor to Todd-AO from 1990 until his retirement in 2003.

After he worked on the creation of a film for the first time at Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows in 1963 , his real career in the Hollywood film industry began in the early 1970s .

At the 1973 Academy Awards , he and David Hildyard received an Oscar for the first time for best sound and a Stella Award (later British Academy Film Award ) for best sound in Cabaret (1972), the award also going to Arthur Piantadosi . At the following Academy Awards in 1974 he received his second Oscar for best tone for the film The Exorcist (1973) together with Christopher Newman and together with Newman, Jean-Louis Ducarme , Fred J. Brown , Bob Fine , Ross Taylor , Ron Nagle , Doc Siegel , Gonzalo Gavira and Hal Landaker received an additional nomination for the British Film Award for Best Sound.

For the film A Star Is Born (1976), he was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 with Dan Wallin , Robert J. Glass and Tom Overton and in 1978 with R. Glass, Marvin I. Kosberg , T. Overton, Josef von Stroheim and D. Wallin for the BAFTA Award. At the 1978 Academy Awards he was nominated twice: First with R. Glass, Richard Tyler and Jean-Louis Ducarme for Breathless Before Fear (1977) and next with R. Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene S. Cantamessa for Uncanny Encounters third kind (1977). For this he worked with GS Cantamessa, D. MacDougall, R. Glass, Stephen Katz , Frank E. Warner , Richard Oswald , David M. Horton , Sam Gemette , Gary S. Gerlich , Chester Slomka and Neil Burrow again in 1979 for the BAFTA Award nominated for best sound. Further nominations for the Oscar for the best sound followed in 1979 with R. Glass, D. MacDougall and Jack Solomon for Um Kopf und Kragen (Hooper, 1979) and in 1980 together with R. Glass, D. MacDougall and GS Cantamessa for 1941 - Wo Please go to Hollywood (1980).

For ET - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) he received in 1983 not only with R. Glass, Don Digirolamo and GS Cantamessa his third Oscar for best sound, but again with Charles L. Campbell , Glass, Digirolamo and Cantamessa an additional nomination for the BAFTA Award in this category. He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for the best sound together with James E. Webb , R. Glass and D. Digirolamo for the sound in Flashdance . For Das Reich der Sonne (1987) he was nominated for an Oscar in 1988 with D. Digirolamo, John S. Boyd and Tony Dawe , and with T. Dawe, CL Campbell and Louis L. Edemann for another BAFTA award for best sound . He received his final nomination for an Academy Award for Best Sound with J. Boyd, D. Digirolamo and T. Dawe at the 1989 Academy Awards .

For his life's work, he received the Career Achievement Award as a further film prize from the Gilde der Tondechniker ( Cinema Audio Society (CAS)) in 2000 .

During his career, Knudson, who also edited the sound in Scarface (1983), worked with film directors such as Bob Fosse , William Friedkin , Frank Pierson , Steven Spielberg , Adrian Lyne , Hal Needham and Robert Zemeckis .

Web links

• Robert Knudson in the Internet Movie Database (English)