Daniel J. Bloomberg
{{Short description|American audio engineer}}
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| name = Daniel J. Bloomberg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1905|7|4}}
| birth_place = Massachusetts, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|1984|8|14|1905|7|4}}
| death_place = Ventura, California, United States
| othername =
| occupation = Sound engineer
| yearsactive = 1934 – 1952
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Daniel J. Bloomberg (July 4, 1905 – August 14, 1984) was an Academy Award-winning audio engineer. Bloomberg's first Hollywood credit was in 1934, his last his Oscar-nominated work on John Ford’s The Quiet Man 18 years later. In the intervening time, he worked on several films in the Dick Tracy and Zorro series.
Although his work was mainly confined to B pictures, Bloomberg did enjoy the distinction of winning five technical awards from the Academy, as well as eight Academy Award nominations. He also won an Honorary Award in 1945 for designing and building a musical scoring auditorium with state-of-the-art acoustics.
Bloomberg was married to award-winning British actress and beauty queen Eugenie Prescott Bloomberg{{Cite web |url=http://www.elizabethprescott.com/bio.htm |title=From the Voice Studio of Elizabeth Prescott: Bio |access-date=2012-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229031819/http://www.elizabethprescott.com/bio.htm |archive-date=2011-12-29 |url-status=dead }} (born: 1909, Cheshire, England, UK) whose film credits include The Rising Generation (1928), The Flying Squad (1929) and Diggers (1931).[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0696102/ IMDb: Eugenie Prescott]
Selected filmography
Bloomberg was nominated for eight Academy Awards:
- Flying Tigers (1942) - Two categories (Best Sound and Best Effects){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1943 |title=The 15th Academy Awards (1943) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-13|work=oscars.org}}
- In Old Oklahoma (1943){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944 |title=The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-14|work=oscars.org}}
- Brazil (1944){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945 |title=The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-15|work=oscars.org}}
- Flame of Barbary Coast (1945){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1946 |title=The 18th Academy Awards (1946) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-16|work=oscars.org}}
- Moonrise (1948){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1949 |title=The 21st Academy Awards (1949) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-18|work=oscars.org}}
- Sands of Iwo Jima (1949){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1950 |title=The 22nd Academy Awards (1950) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-18|work=oscars.org}}
- The Quiet Man (1952){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1953 |title=The 25th Academy Awards (1953) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-20|work=oscars.org}}
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Category:Academy Honorary Award recipients
Category:American audio engineers
Category:Engineers from Massachusetts
Category:20th-century American engineers
Category:Academy Award for Technical Achievement winners
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