Skip Lievsay

Skip Lievsay

John Skip Lievsay (born 1952 or 1953 ) is an American sound engineer and sound designer .

life and career

Lievsay began his career in 1979 with the film The House of Living Corpses , then still in the credits as John Lievsay. More than 140 other productions followed as a sound editor, sound designer and sound mixer.

Lievsay actually wanted to become an architect, but the recession of the 1970s discouraged him. Instead, his knowledge of stage construction gave him a job as a girl for everything in low-budget film productions, where he worked, among other things, as an assistant editor . He also worked on short films for Saturday Night Live . During his career he worked extensively with the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee. Together with others he runs the recording studio C5, Inc. in New York.

In 2007 he was nominated twice for an Oscar , and again in 2011. It wasn't until 2014 that he received an Oscar in the Best Sound category for the film Gravity .

Filmography (selection)

• 1985: The time after midnight (After Hours)
• 1988: Bright Lights, Big City (Bright Lights, Big City)
• 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (The Silence of the Lambs)
• 1995: The Indian in the Cupboard (The Indian in the Cupboard)
• 1997: Men in Black
• 1999: Wild Wild West
• 2002: Men in Black II
• 2006: Game on probation (Gridiron Gang)
• 2007: I Am Legend
• 2008: Operation Valkyrie (Valkyrie)
• 2011: Water for Elephants (Water for Elephants)
• 2013: Gravity

Web links

• Skip Lievsay in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ New York Magazine, Jan. 30, 1995.
2. ↑ Vincent LoBrutto: Sound-On-Film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound , Westport, CT 1994, pp. 255–268, p. 255.
3. ↑ Awards  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Film-Zeit.de  
4. ↑ Oscars 2014 on Oscars.org