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Years active
  
1980–present

Name
  
Wylie Stateman

Role
  
Sound Editor


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Occupation
  
Supervising Sound Editor Sound Designer Entrepreneur

Awards
  
BAFTA Award for Best Sound

Nominations
  
Academy Award for Best Sound Editing

Similar
  
Andy Nelson, Michael Minkler, Mark P Stoeckinger, Lon Bender, Anna Behlmer

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Wylie Stateman is an American supervising sound editor, sound designer, and post production media entrepreneur. Stateman has worked on over 150 sound projects and has been nominated for multiple industry awards, including 8 Academy Awards, 6 BAFTA Awards and 17 Motion Picture Sound Editor Awards. He also has received a Science Technology award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Contents

Stateman was the co-founder of post production sound services company Soundelux where he served in an executive management capacity for over 30 years. He then co-founded Twenty Four Seven Sound, a post production sound services company based in Topanga, CA, where he is currently based.

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Early career

Stateman was introduced to the world of feature films in 1980, working as a sound editor on Coal Miner's Daughter. Over the next five years, his name appeared on such films as Das Boot, TRON, and Footloose.

Noteworthy Collaborators

Stateman regularly works with some of the most prominent film directors in the industry, including:

Oliver Stone — Snowden, Savages, The Untold History of the United State, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, W., World Trade Center, Alexander, Any Given Sunday, Nixon, Natural Born Killers, Heaven & Earth, JFK, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July and Talk Radio.

Quentin Tarantino — Hateful 8, Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds, Grindhouse: Death Proof, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2

John Hughes — Dennis the Menace, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Curly Sue, Dutch, Only the Lonely, Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, Uncle Buck, She’s Having a Baby, Planes, Trans & Automobiles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Rob Marshall — Nine and Memoirs of a Geisha

Cameron Crowe — Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire

Producer Credits

Stateman is credited as executive producer on the 2000 release ‘’True Rights’’ and the 1999 film The Dogwalker.

Awards and nominations

Wylie Stateman has been nominated for 8 Academy Awards, 6 BAFTA Awards (1 win), 17 Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards (3 wins), an Emmy Award and a Satellite Award.

Entrepreneur

In addition to his film work, Stateman has been an active entrepreneur with a handful of sound related businesses. Along with partner Lon Bender, Stateman has hand in starting Liberty Livewire Audio, Signet Soundelux Studios, Vine Street Studios, Soundelux Media Labs, Modern Music and a leading sound effects library known as The Hollywood Edge.

A 2005 article in Mix magazine reported that Stateman was serving as the executive vice president of the Creative Sound Services group and as a supervising sound editor at Ascent Media Group.

Stateman, Bender and Hugh Waddell created VocalStream — a company posed to produce and distribute audio content read by professional voice talents and sent out via client-branded players, in 2007.

In 2008, Stateman and Bender launched Store-Stream, an Internet company created for end users where they can store their media libraries, create unique media players and send them out to friends or clients.

References

Wylie Stateman Wikipedia