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Randy Thom

{{Short description|American sound designer, supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer}}

{{Infobox person

| birth_name = David Randall Thom

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|8|21}}

| birth_place = Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.

| occupation = Sound Design

| years_active = 1971–present

}}

David Randall Thom (born August 21, 1951{{cite web|url=http://www.bardradio.com/randy_thom.html|title=Bay Area Radio Drama|access-date=March 8, 2019|archive-date=April 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421012355/http://www.bardradio.com/randy_thom.html|url-status=dead}}) is an American sound designer and the director of sound design at Skywalker Sound.

Career

Thom started his film career with a phone call to Walter Murch, who invited him to visit a re-mix of American Graffiti. Thom introduced himself to Murch, Ben Burtt, and Mark Berger, and said he had been working for a radio station in Berkeley, and wanted to work in film sound.[http://soundworkscollection.com/casawards2010 2010 CAS Career Achievement Speech] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414111242/http://soundworkscollection.com/casawards2010 |date=2010-04-14 }}

Filmography

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scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1979

! scope="row" | Apocalypse Now

| Post-production sound effects recordist

|

1983

! scope="row" | Koyaanisqatsi

| Sound effects recordist

|

1983

! scope="row" | Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

| Production sound mixer, re-recording mixer

|

1983

! scope="row" | Never Cry Wolf

| Sound mixer - Saul Zaentz

|

1983

! scope="row" | The Right Stuff

| Sound re-recording mixer, sound effects recordist (uncredited) - Saul Zaentz

|

1984

! scope="row" | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

| Re-recording mixer

|

1985

! scope="row" | Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer (uncredited)

|

1985

! scope="row" | Latino

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer

|

1987

! scope="row" | Spaceballs

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer

|

1987

! scope="row" | Gardens of Stone

| Re-recording mixer

|

1988

! scope="row" | Colors

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer

|

1988

! scope="row" | Tucker: The Man and His Dream

| Re-recording mixer

|

1989

! scope="row" | Romero

| Sound re-recording mixer

|

1989

! scope="row" | Always

| Re-recording mixer, foley artist

|

1990

! scope="row" | Wild at Heart

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer

|

1990

! scope="row" | Loom

| Sound design consultant: Audio Book Cassette

|

1991

! scope="row" | Backdraft

| Re-recording mixer

|

1991

! scope="row" | A Brief History of Time

| Sound effects, re-recording mixer

|

1994

! scope="row" | Miracle on 34th Street

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

1994

! scope="row" | Forrest Gump

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

1995

! scope="row" | Jumanji

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

1995

! scope="row" | Species

| Re-recording mixer

|

1996

! scope="row" | The Frighteners

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

1996

! scope="row" | Mars Attacks!

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

1996

! scope="row" | Chain Reaction

| Sound designer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

1997

! scope="row" | FairyTale: A True Story

| Additional sound designer

|

1997

! scope="row" | Contact

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

1998

! scope="row" | Stepmom

| Re-recording mixer

|

1999

! scope="row" | Arlington Road

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer

|

1999

! scope="row" | Snow Falling on Cedars

| Re-recording mixer

|

1999

! scope="row" | The Iron Giant

| Sound designer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

1999

! scope="row" | Bicentennial Man

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer

|

2000

! scope="row" | Reindeer Games

| Sound designer

|

2000

! scope="row" | What Lies Beneath

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2000

! scope="row" | Cast Away

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2001

! scope="row" | Osmosis Jones

| Sound designer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2001

! scope="row" | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2002

! scope="row" | Windtalkers

| Supervising sound editor (uncredited), re-recording mixer

|

2002

! scope="row" | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

| Sound designer, supervising sound editor

|

2003

! scope="row" | Darkness Falls

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer

|

2003

! scope="row" | Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2004

! scope="row" | Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

| Sound designer

|

2004

! scope="row" | Shrek 2

| Sound designer

|

2004

! scope="row" | The Polar Express

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2004

! scope="row" | The Incredibles

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2005

! scope="row" | War of the Worlds

| Additional sound designer, additional supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2005

! scope="row" | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

| Sound designer, supervising sound editor

|

2006

! scope="row" | Ice Age: The Meltdown

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2006

! scope="row" | Over the Hedge

| Re-recording mixer

|

2006

! scope="row" | Monster House

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2006

! scope="row" | Eragon

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2007

! scope="row" | Ratatouille

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2007

! scope="row" | The Simpsons Movie

| Sound designer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2007

! scope="row" | Bee Movie

| Sound designer

|

2007

! scope="row" | Enchanted

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2007

! scope="row" | Beowulf

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2008

! scope="row" | Standard Operating Procedure

| Sound designer (uncredited), supervising sound editor

|

2008

! scope="row" | Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2008

! scope="row" | Bolt

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2008

! scope="row" | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

| Sound designer

|

2009

! scope="row" | Coraline

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2009

! scope="row" | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2009

! scope="row" | A Christmas Carol

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2010

! scope="row" | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2010

! scope="row" | How to Train Your Dragon

| Voice of Toothless, sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2010

! scope="row" | Despicable Me

| Sound designer consultant, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2010

! scope="row" | The Last Airbender

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2011

! scope="row" | Mars Needs Moms

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer

|

2011

! scope="row" | Rio

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2012

! scope="row" | The Lorax

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2012

! scope="row" | Ice Age: Continental Drift

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor, additional voices

|

2012

! scope="row" | Flight

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2013

! scope="row" | The Croods

| Voice of Sandy Crood, sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor, ADR group

|

2013

! scope="row" | Epic

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2013

! scope="row" | Free Birds

| Sound designer, Re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2014

! scope="row" | Rio 2

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2014

! scope="row" | How to Train Your Dragon 2

| Voice of Toothless, sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2015

! scope="row" | Home

| Sound designer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2015

! scope="row" | The Peanuts Movie

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor, additional voices: Snoopy vocals

|

2015

! scope="row" | Crimson Peak

| Sound designer, supervising sound editor

|

2015

! scope="row" | The Walk

| Sound designer, supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer

|

2016

! scope="row" | Pete's Dragon

| Additional supervising sound designer

|

2017

! scope="row" | Despicable Me 3

| Re-recording mixer, sound designer consultant

|

2017

! scope="row" | Ferdinand

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor

|

2019

! scope="row" | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

| Voices of Toothless and Light Fury, sound designer

|

2019

! scope="row" | Spies in Disguise

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2019

! scope="row" | Abominable

| Special thanks

|

2020

! scope="row" | The Croods: A New Age

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer (uncredited), supervising sound editor (uncredited), ADR group

|

2020

! scope="row" | The Witches

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer

|

2021

! scope="row" | Vivo

| Sound designer, re-recording mixer, additional voices

|

2022

! scope="row" | Wendell & Wild

| Sound designer

|

2023

! scope="row" | The Super Mario Bros. Movie{{cite web | url=https://www.asoundeffect.com/super-mario-bros-movie-sound-design/ | title=Randy Thom & Jamey Scott: Honoring Iconic Game Audio for 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' | date=19 April 2023 }}

| Sound designer, supervising sound editor (uncredited)

|

2024

! scope="row" | The Wild Robot

| Voice of the RECOs, supervising sound designer

|

Awards

=[[Academy Awards]]=

==Nominations==

  • 2025 - Best Sound, The Wild Robot{{cite web |title=The 97th Academy Awards |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2025 |access-date=23 January 2025}}
  • 2016 – Best Sound Mixing, The Revenant{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2016|title=88th Academy Awards|access-date=January 14, 2016}}
  • 2008 – Best Sound, Ratatouille{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2008 |title=The 80th Academy Awards (2008) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-22|work=oscars.org}}
  • 2008 – Best Sound Editing, Ratatouille
  • 2005 – Best Sound Editing, The Polar Express
  • 2005 – Best Sound Mixing, The Polar Express
  • 2005 – Best Sound Mixing, The Incredibles
  • 2001 – Best Sound Mixing, Cast Away{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/73rd-winners.html |title=The 73rd Academy Awards (2001) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-19 |work=oscars.org |archive-date=2013-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929060803/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/73rd-winners.html |url-status=dead }}
  • 1998 – Best Sound Mixing, Contact{{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}}
  • 1995 – Best Sound Effects Editing, Forrest Gump{{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}}
  • 1995 – Best Sound, Forrest Gump
  • 1992 – Best Sound, Backdraft{{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}}
  • 1984 – Best Sound, Never Cry Wolf
  • 1984 – Best Sound, Return of the Jedi

=[[British Academy Film Awards]] (BAFTA)=

=[[César Awards|French Academy Awards]] (César)=

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [http://www.skysound.com/people/randy-thom/ Randy Thom] at Skywalker Sound
  • {{IMDb name|858378}}
  • https://randythomblog.wordpress.com/ (Randy Thom's blog)

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