Thomas T. Moulton

Thomas T. Moulton (born January 1, 1896 in Wausau , Wisconsin , † March 29, 1967 in Fresno , California ) was an American film and sound engineer who won the Oscar for best sound and twice the Oscar for technical merits ( Technical Achievement Award ) .

biography

Moulton, who worked for United Artists ' Studio Sound Department (SSD) , was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Sound category for his first job as a sound engineer on a film production at the 1935 Academy Awards for the film The Affairs of Cellini (1934). In 1936 there was an Oscar nomination for Der Weg im Dunkel (1935).

At the Academy Awards in 1938 , he not only received his first Oscar for the best sound in ... then came the storm (1937), but also the Oscar for Technical Achievement Award for the United Artists SSD “for the use of sound film recording processes with volume indicators with peak value indicators and linear decibel scales ”.

At the Academy Awards in 1939 Moulton received his second Oscar for best sound, this time for My Man, the Cowboy (1938).

In 1940 he not only received another Technical Achievement Award "for the development and application of the Delta dB test in sound recordings in films" together with Fred Albin , but he was again nominated for an Oscar for Gone with the Wind (1939) in the best sound category.

He was nominated three times at the Academy Awards in 1941 : On the one hand in the category of best sound for Our Little City (1940), on the other hand for the Oscar for the best visual effects with RT Layton and Ray Binger in The Long Road to Cardiff (1940 ) and with Paul Eagler for the best visual effects in The Foreign Correspondent (1940). After a renewed nomination in 1942 for the best tone in The Strange Taming of the Gangster Bride Sugarpuss (1941), he was at the Academy Awards in 1943 for the best tone in the film The Big Throw (1942) as well as with Ray Binger and Jack Cosgrove for the best visual effects in this film.

For The North Star (1943) Moulton was nominated at the Academy Awards in 1944 on the one hand for the best sound, on the other hand with Ray Binger and Clarence Slifer for the best visual effects.

Other nominations for the Oscar for best sound followed in 1945 for example, a Papa (Casanova Brown, 1944), in 1946 for mortal sin (1945) and most recently at the Oscars in 1953 for With a Song in My Heart (With a Song in My Heart, 1952) .

During his long career, Moulton has worked with well-known film directors such as Gregory La Cava , Sidney Franklin , John Ford , HC Potter , Victor Fleming , Sam Wood , Alfred Hitchcock , Howard Hawks , Lewis Milestone , John M. Stahl and Walter Lang .

Web links

• Thomas T. Moulton in the Internet Movie Database (English)