Gary Summers
{{short description|American sound re-recording mixer}}
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Gary Summers is an American re-recording mixer.
He has done the sound re-recording on many blockbuster motion pictures including Avatar, Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Saving Private Ryan, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Jurassic Park. Summers has won four Academy Awards, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA awards and three C.A.S. Awards.{{cite web|url=http://mixonline.com/news/headline/toddao-hires-garysummers-112906/|title=Article Categories - Mixonline|website=mixonline.com|access-date=2010-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604141703/http://mixonline.com/news/headline/toddao-hires-garysummers-112906/|archive-date=2011-06-04|url-status=dead}}
He got his start working on The Empire Strikes Back and began twenty years working for the Skywalker Sound division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in Marin County, California.{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=0EAFEE4668ECE8A2&p_docnum=1&s_dlid=DL0110012910284413157&s_ecproduct=SUB-FREE&s_ecprodtype=INSTANT&s_siteloc=&s_referrer=&s_subterm=Subscription%20until:%2012/14/2015%2011:59%20PM&s_docsbal=%20&s_subexpires=12/14/2015%2011:59%20PM&s_docstart=&s_docsleft=&s_docsread=|title=The Press Democrat - 1999}} Summers formed Summers Sound Services, Inc. in 2002 and is currently self-employed.
Academy Awards
Summers has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for eight more:
;Wins
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992 |title=The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-22|work=oscars.org}}
- Jurassic Park (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}}
- Titanic (1997){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1998 |title=The 70th Academy Awards (1998) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-19|work=oscars.org}}
- Saving Private Ryan (1998){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1999 |title=The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-19|work=oscars.org}}
;Nominated
- Return of the Jedi (1983){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1984 |title=The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-09|work=oscars.org}}
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1990 |title=The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-17|work=oscars.org}}
- Backdraft (1991)
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2010 |title=The 82nd Academy Awards (2010) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-22|work=oscars.org}}
- Avatar (2009)
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2012 |title=The 84th Academy Awards (2012) Nominees |access-date=2012-01-26|work=oscars.org}}
- 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016){{Cite web|url=http://oscar.go.com/nominees|title = Oscar Nominations 2021: The Complete List | 93rd Academy Awards}}
- Avatar: The Way of Water (2022){{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023|title = Oscar Nominations 2023: The Complete List | 95th Academy Awards}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0838707}}
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Category:American audio engineers
Category:Production sound mixers
Category:Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners
Category:Best Sound BAFTA Award winners
Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners
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