Gary Summers

Gary Summers
Occupation	Sound engineer
Years active	1980-present

Gary Summers is an American sound re-recording mixer.

He has done the sound re-recording on a number of 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 Oscar's, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA awards and three C.A.S. Awards.^[1]

Summers lives in Petaluma, California.^[2] He got his start working on The Empire Strikes Back and began a twenty-year stretch working for the Skywalker Sound division of George Lucas's Lucas Digital in Marin County, California.^[2] Summers is current employed by Todd-AO.

Academy Awards

Summers has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for five more:

Wins

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)^[3]
• Jurassic Park (1993)^[4]
• Titanic (1997)^[5]
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)^[6]

Nominated

• Return of the Jedi (1983)^[7]
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)^[8]
• Backdraft (1991)^[3]
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)^[9]
• Avatar (2009)^[9]
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)^[10]

References

1. MixOnline.com
2. The Press Democrat - 1999
3. "The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
4. "The 66th Academy Awards (1994) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
5. "The 70th Academy Awards (1998) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
6. "The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
7. "The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
8. "The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
9. "The 82nd Academy Awards (2010) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
10. "The 84th Academy Awards (2012) Nominees". oscars.org. Retrieved 2012-01-26.

External links

• Gary Summers at the Internet Movie Database