Bob Beemer

{{For|the former American football player|Bob Beemer (American football)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|2|8}}

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| occupation = Sound engineer

| yearsactive = 1989 – present

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Robert Joseph "Bob" Beemer (born February 8, 1955) is an American sound mixer who has won four Oscars.

Biography

Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Hollywood, California. Graduating from Loyola High School, Los Angeles in 1973, he studied Communication Arts and English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, earning a bachelor's degree in 1977 with a double major in those two fields. Always fascinated by sound, he became an expert in remixing for movies. His first professionally recorded sound was on Roots (1977).

Beemer has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another three:

;Won

Speed (1994){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1995 |title=The 67th Academy Awards (1995) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-23|work=oscars.org}}
Gladiator (2000){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2001 |title=The 73rd Academy Awards (2001) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-19|work=oscars.org}}
Ray (2004){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2005 |title=The 77th Academy Awards (2005) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-20|work=oscars.org}}
Dreamgirls (2006){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2007 |title=The 79th Academy Awards (2007) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-20|work=oscars.org}}

;Nominated

Cliffhanger (1993){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1994 |title=The 66th Academy Awards (1994) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-22|work=oscars.org}}
Independence Day (1996){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1997 |title=The 69th Academy Awards (1997) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-23|work=oscars.org}}
Road to Perdition (2002){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2003 |title=The 75th Academy Awards (2003) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-20|work=oscars.org}}

{{IMDb name|0066446}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927185005/http://www.lmu.edu/Page34159.aspx Bob Beemer's profile at LMU website]

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