Leslie I. Carey

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| name = Leslie I. Carey

| birth_name = Leslie Irwin Carey

| birth_date = {{birth date|1895|8|3}}

| birth_place = Innisfail, Alberta, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|1984|6|17|1895|8|3}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States

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| occupation = Sound engineer

| yearsactive = 1947 – 1960

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Sound recordist Leslie I. Carey (August 3, 1895 – June 17, 1984) first hit Hollywood in 1938, where he embarked on the first of over 300 films. Some of these were A Double Life in 1947, The Naked City and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in 1948, Winchester '73 in 1950, Creature from the Black Lagoon and Magnificent Obsession in 1954, Man Without a Star and This Island Earth in 1955, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) and Operation Petticoat (1959). Also in the late 1950s, he worked extensively on the "Peter Gunn" TV series. Nominated six times for the Academy Awards, he won an Oscar in 1954 for The Glenn Miller Story.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1955 |title=The 27th Academy Awards (1955) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-20|work=oscars.org}}

Awards

Carey was nominated for six Academy Awards and won one:

Once More, My Darling (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}}
Louisa (1950){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1951 |title=The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-19|work=oscars.org}}
Bright Victory (1951){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1952 |title=The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-20|work=oscars.org}}
The Mississippi Gambler (1953){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954 |title=The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-20|work=oscars.org}}
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1959 |title=The 31st Academy Awards (1959) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-21|work=oscars.org}}