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Gordon E Sawyer

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Occupation
  
Sound engineer

Years active
  
1930 – 1968

Name
  
Gordon Sawyer


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Born
  
August 27, 1905 (
1905-08-27
)
Santa Barbara, California, United States

Died
  
May 15, 1980(1980-05-15) (aged 74) Santa Barbara, California, United States

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Gordon E. Sawyer (27 August 1905 – 15 May 1980) was sound director at Samuel Goldwyn Productions. He won 3 Oscars for Best Sound and was nominated a further 13 times.

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Selected filmography

Sawyer won three Academy Awards and was nominated for 13 more:

Won
  • The Bishop's Wife (1947)
  • The Alamo (1960)
  • West Side Story (1961)
    • Nominated
  • Wonder Man (1944)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  • Our Very Own (1950)
  • I Want You (1951)
  • Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
  • Friendly Persuasion (1956)
  • Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
  • I Want to Live! (1958)
  • Porgy and Bess (1959)
  • The Apartment (1960)
  • The Loudest Whisper (1961)
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
  • Hawaii (1966)

    • Legacy

    The Gordon E. Sawyer award was instituted at the Academy Awards in 1981 *Gordon E. Sawyer Award

    References

    Gordon E. Sawyer Wikipedia
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