Years active 1982-present Name Andy Koyama | Role Sound Design | |
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Born April 18, 1962 (age 61) ( 1962-04-18 ) Toronto, Ontario, Canada Occupation Re-recording sound mixer Nominations Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing Similar People Beau Borders, Peter Berg, Patrick Robinson, Akiva Goldsman, Sarah Aubrey | ||
Andy Koyama (born April 18, 1962 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian re-recording sound mixer.
Life
Koyama grew up in Toronto and attended the University of Toronto, with a major in Engineering Physics.
After college he worked as a musician and recording engineer. He then worked for 12 years at the Deluxe sound facility in Toronto, where he was responsible for mixing film and television projects. He moved to Los Angeles and worked at Universal Studios sound department, Sony Pictures Entertainment sound department and Todd-AO before joing the Formosa Group.
Koyama and his fellow sound mixers David Brownlow and Beau Borders are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound for the 2013 film Lone Survivor.
Koyama was nominated for 2 CAS awards in 2013, Best sound mixing for an animated feature film "Walking With Dinosaurs", and Best sound mixing for live action feature film "Lone Survivor".
Koyama won a MPSE Golden Reel award for best sound editing for a feature film direct to video "LOVE" in 2011.