Roger Savage

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Roger Savage is a sound engineer and sound engineer .

Life

Savage began his career at Olympic Studios in London , where he worked as a sound engineer on recordings for artists such as Dusty Springfield , Petula Clark , The Yardbirds , The Hollies and The Rolling Stones . In 1964 he moved to Australia , where he continued his career and worked with The Easybeats , among others . From the late 1960s he worked for Armstrong Studios in Melbourne and recorded the first albums of John Farnham , among others . In the heyday of Australian film, fueled by the success of Mad Max , Savage was involved in many blockbusters. He worked on all three parts of the Mad Max trilogy, Crocodile Dundee - A crocodile to kiss and Strictly Ballroom - They dance against all the rules . His later Australian films include A Pig Called Babe and the sequel Piggy Babe in the Big City . He has also been involved in a number of Chinese films, including House of Flying Daggers , The Curse of the Golden Flower, and Red Cliff .

Between 1993 and 2005 he was nominated five times for the BAFTA Film Award in the Best Sound category and was able to win the award for Shine - Der Weg ins Licht and Moulin Rouge . 2002 he was responsible for the Moulin Rouge for the Oscar in the category Best Sound nominated. Savage received numerous other awards, for example he was nominated 20 times for the AFI Award between 1979 and 2009 , of which he won the award ten times. He also received the 1984 Byron Kennedy Award from the AACTA. He was nominated three times for the Golden Reel Award and won the 2005 award for House of Flying Daggers . For Red Cliff he was nominated for the Satellite Award in the category Best Sound Editing in 2009.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Oscar

BAFTA Film Award

  • 1993: BAFTA Film Award nomination in the Best Sound category for Strictly Ballroom
  • 1997: BAFTA Film Award for Best Sound for Shine
  • 1998: BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Sound for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
  • 2002: BAFTA Film Award in the Best Sound category for Moulin Rouge
  • 2005: BAFTA Film Award nomination in the Best Sound category for House of Flying Daggers

Satellite Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Roger Savage's rock and pop recordings , Australian Broadcasting Corporation (English)
  2. BAFTA Awards 1997 (English)
  3. BAFTA Awards 2002 (English)
  4. Oscars 2002 (English)