Occupation Sound engineer Education Antioch College Role Production Sound Mixer | Name Peter Kurland Years active 1984 – present | |
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Full Name Peter Franklin Kurland Spouse(s) Shannon Dee Wood (2 children) Awards BAFTA Award for Best Sound Nominations Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, Satellite Award for Best Sound Similar People Greg Orloff, Skip Lievsay, T Bone Burnett, Doug Hemphill, Mary Zophres | ||
Peter Franklin Kurland (born 1958) is an American production sound mixer.
Kurland has done boom operation work along with sound mixing on many films, such as Walk the Line, The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty, Men in Black, Wild Wild West, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?. He won two Grammy's for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a BAFTA award and a CAS award for Walk the Line, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound for Walk the Line.
In 2008, he won the CAS award for No Country for Old Men was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound as well as the BAFTA award. In 2011, he was nominated again for the Best Sound Oscar, this time for the film True Grit.
Kurland is a frequent collaborator with the Coen Brothers, working on every Coen Brothers' film for the past 25 years.
Kurland and his wife, Shannon Wood, are co-owners of the Darkhorse Theater, a performing arts venue in Nashville.
In 2014, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound for Inside Llewyn Davis.
Personal life
Kurland is the son of Sheldon Kurland. He attended Peabody Demonstration School (now University School of Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a graduate of Antioch College, where he was once the fire chief. He is married to Shannon Dee Wood, with whom he has two children. Wood was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate in 2000, when Bill Frist won re-election. His sons, Julian and Ben, are the founders of BillFixers.