Ai-Ling Lee is a Singaporean sound editor, re-recording mixer and

audio engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduc ...

working in Los Angeles, California. Her works on films, '' Bruce Almighty'' (2003), '' Spider-Man 2'' (2004), '' Mr. & Mrs. Smith'' (2005), '' The Twilight Saga: New Moon'' (2009), '' Tangled'' (2010), '' Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' (2011), '' 300: Rise of an Empire'' (2014), '' X-Men: Days of Future Past'' (2014), '' Wild'' (2014), '' The Maze Runner'' (2014–15), '' Deadpool'' (2016), and critically acclaimed musical-drama ''

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'', for which she received two

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nominations ( Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing). With her nomination for the

Academy Award for Best Sound Editing The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing. The award used to go to the studio sound departments until a rule change in 1969 said it should be awarde ...

, she and her sound editing partner for the film Mildred Iatrou Morgan became the first female team to be nominated in the category.

Selected filmography

* '' First Man'' (2018) * ''

'' (2016) * '' Deadpool'' (2016) * '' Wild'' (2014) * '' X-Men: Days of Future Past'' (2014) * ''

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'' (2014) * '' Man of Steel'' (2013) * ''

Snow White and the Huntsman ''Snow White & the Huntsman'' is a 2012 American fantasy film, fantasy action film, action-adventure film, adventure film based on the German fairy tale "Snow White" compiled by the Brothers Grimm. Produced by Roth/Kirschenbaum Films, Roth Films ...

'' (2012) * '' Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' (2011) * ''

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'' (2011) * '' The Twilight Saga: New Moon'' (2009) * ''

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'' (2009) * '' Terminator Salvation'' (2009) * ''

Watchmen ''Watchmen'' is a comic book Limited series (comics), limited series by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins (comics), John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 and 19 ...

'' (2009) * '' Live Free or Die Hard'' (2007) * '' Mr. & Mrs. Smith'' (2005) * '' Spider-Man 2'' (2004) * '' Bruce Almighty'' (2003) * '' The Scorpion King'' (2002) * '' Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'' (2001) * '' The Waterboy'' (1998)

Awards

* Nominated:

Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing. The award used to go to the studio sound departments until a rule change in 1969 said it should be award ...

* Nominated: BAFTA Award for Best Sound * Won: Cinema Audio Society Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Live Action * Nominated: Satellite Award for Best Sound

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Ai-Ling Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Women sound editors Sound editors Re-recording mixers Women audio engineers Sound designers