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Occupation
  
Sound engineer

Years active
  
1935-1987


Name
  
Arthur Piantadosi

Role
  
Sound engineer


Born
  
August 4, 1916 (
1916-08-04
)
Brooklyn, New York

Died
  
February 23, 1994, Newport Beach, California, United States

Awards
  
BAFTA Award for Best Sound, Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

Similar People
  
Michael Minkler, M J Frankovich, Alan J Pakula, Paddy Chayefsky, Sydney Pollack

Arthur Piantadosi (November 4, 1916 – February 23, 1994) was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the Robert Redford film All the President's Men and was nominated for six more in the same category. He won a BAFTA Award in 1973 for Best Sound for the 1972 film Cabaret.

He worked as a music mixer for Warner Brothers, 20th Century-Fox, Columbia Pictures, Republic Pictures, and Universal Studios. During World War II, he worked for the Office of Strategic Services in John Ford's department.

Selected filmography

Piantadosi won an Academy Award and was nominated for another six:

Won
  • All the President's Men (1976)
  • Nominated
  • Marooned (1969)
  • Butterflies Are Free (1972)
  • Bite the Bullet (1975)
  • The Electric Horseman (1979)
  • Altered States (1980)
  • Tootsie (1982)
  • References

    Arthur Piantadosi Wikipedia


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