William B. Kaplan

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William "Bill" B. Kaplan (* before 1972) is an American sound engineer , actor and cameraman who was nominated seven times for an Oscar for best sound.

Life

1970s, 1980s and 1990s

Kaplan began his career as a sound engineer in the Hollywood film industry in 1972 in the film drama Prison Girls by Tom De Simone with Jacqueline Giroux , Annik Borel and Tracy Handfuss and has worked on the production of nearly ninety films to date. In a few film productions he also appeared as an actor in supporting roles or worked as a cameraman.

At the Oscar ceremony in 1986 Kaplan was the first time for the Oscar for Best Sound nominated, along with Bill Varney , B. Tennyson Sebastian II and Robert Thirlwell for science fiction - film comedy Back to the Future (Back to the Future, 1985) by Robert Zemeckis with Michael J. Fox , Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson in the lead roles.

In the next Oscar ceremony in 1987 he was, Donald O. Mitchell , Kevin O'Connell and Rick Kline for the Oscar for best sound in the action film Top Gun - Lost Command (Top Gun, 1986) by Tony Scott with Tom Cruise , Kelly McGillis and Anthony Edwards .

In 1995 , Kaplan and Randy Thom , Tom Johnson and Dennis S. Sands were nominated for the Oscar for Best Sound in Forrest Gump (1994), a literary adaptation of the novel by Winston Groom starring Tom Hanks , Robin Wright and Gary, directed by Robert Zemeckis Sinise in the lead roles. At the same time, Kaplan, Randy Thom, Tom Johnson and Dennis S. Sands won the 1995 CAS Award for outstanding services in sound from the Cinema Audio Society for this film.

He received the next Oscar nomination for best sound in 1996 with Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline and Gregory H. Watkins for the feature film Crimson Tide (Crimson Tide, 1995) by Tony Scott with Denzel Washington , Gene Hackman and George Dzundza . Kaplan was also nominated for the CAS Award for Outstanding Services in Sound for Crimson Tide, with Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline and Gregory H. Watkins .

At the 1998 Academy Awards , Kaplan and Randy Thom, Tom Johnson and Dennis S. Sands were nominated for an Oscar nomination for sound in the Robert Zemeckis-directed science fiction drame Contact (1997) starring Jodie Foster , Matthew McConaughey and James Woods . For this film he also received another nomination for the CAS Award for outstanding services to sound with Randy Thom, Tom Johnson and Dennis S. Sands.

2000s

He, Randy Thom, Tom Johnson and Dennis S. Sands received another Oscar nomination for Best Sound in 2001 for the feature film Cast Away, which was also directed by Robert Zemeckis and in which Tom Hanks , Helen Hunt and Chris Noth played the leading roles. Kaplan was also nominated for Cast Away in 2001 with Randy Thom, Tom Johnson and Dennis S. Sands for another CAS Award for outstanding services to sound.

Most recently, Kaplan with Randy Thom, Tom Johnson and Dennis S. Sands was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound at the 2005 Academy Awards for the computer-animated children's film Der Polarexpress (The Polarexpress, 2004), which was again directed by Rober Zemeckis , and in which Tom Hanks also worked as a previously real person and as a voice actor in the English-language original.

In 2008, he and Sally Boldt and Lisa Jaime won the Motion Picture Sound Editors' Golden Reel Award for Best Sound in a Music Film for Adam Shankman's Hairspray (2007), starring Nikki Blonsky , John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer . At the same time he was in 2008 with Gerard McCann and Jonathan Karp for the Golden Reel Award for the best sound in the western film drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 2007) by Andrew Dominik with Brad Pitt , Casey Affleck and Zooey Deschanel nominated.

In 2010, Kaplan won the International Press Academy's Satellite Award for best sound editing in the thriller Unstoppable - Out of Control (2010) by Tony Scott and starring Denzel Washington, Chris, together with Mark P. Stoeckinger, Kevin O'Connell and Beau Borders Pine and Rosario Dawson .

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personal data
SURNAME Kaplan, William B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaplan, Bill (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sound engineer, actor, and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH before 1972