Gordon E. Sawyer
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Gordon E. Sawyer | |
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Born | Santa Barbara, California, United States |
August 27, 1905
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Santa Barbara, California, United States |
Occupation | Sound engineer |
Years active | 1930 – 1968 |
Gordon E. Sawyer (27 August 1905 – 15 May 1980) was sound director at Samuel Goldwyn Productions.[1] He won 3 Oscars for Best Sound and was nominated a further 13 times.
Selected filmography
Sawyer won three Academy Awards and was nominated for 13 more:
- Won
- The Bishop's Wife (1947)[2]
- The Alamo (1960)[3]
- West Side Story (1961)[4]
- Nominated
- Wonder Man (1944)[5]
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)[6]
- Our Very Own (1950)[7]
- I Want You (1951)[8]
- Hans Christian Andersen (1952)[9]
- Friendly Persuasion (1956)[10]
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)[11]
- I Want to Live! (1958)[12]
- Porgy and Bess (1959)[13]
- The Apartment (1960)[3]
- The Loudest Whisper (1961)[4]
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)[14]
- Hawaii (1966)[15]
Legacy
The Gordon E. Sawyer award was instituted at the Academy Awards in 1981 *Gordon E. Sawyer Award
References
- ↑ Sound-On-Film by Vincent LoBrutto (1994)
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