Edmund H. Hansen (November 13, 1894 – October 10, 1962) was an American

sound 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, reproductio ...

. He won two

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; one for Best Sound Recording and the other Best Visual Effects. He was nominated for another 12 films across the two categories.

Filmography

Best Sound Recording

;Won * '' Wilson'' (1944) ;Nominated * ''

The White Parade ''The White Parade'' is a 1934 film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Loretta Young and John Boles. It was written by Rian James, Jesse Lasky Jr., Sonya Levien and Ernest Pascal, from the novel by Rian James. Dedicated to "the memory of ...

'' (1934) * ''

Thanks a Million ''Thanks a Million'' is a 1935 musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox and directed by Roy Del Ruth. It stars Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak and Fred Allen, and features Patsy Kelly, David Rubinoff and Paul Whiteman and his band with si ...

'' (1935) * '' Banjo on My Knee'' (1936) * ''

In Old Chicago ''In Old Chicago'' is a 1938 American disaster musical drama film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys". The film is a fictionalized account about the G ...

'' (1937) * ''

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'' (1938) * ''

The Rains Came ''The Rains Came'' is a 1939 20th Century Fox film based on an American novel by Louis Bromfield (published in June 1937 by Harper & Brothers). The film was directed by Clarence Brown and stars Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda ...

'' (1940) * ''

The Grapes of Wrath ''The Grapes of Wrath'' is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Priz ...

'' (1940) * ''

How Green Was My Valley ''How Green Was My Valley'' is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn, narrated by Huw Morgan, the main character, about his Welsh family and the mining community in which they live. The author had claimed that he based the book on his own persona ...

'' (1941) * '' This Above All'' (1942) * '' The Song of Bernadette'' (1943)

Best Visual Effects

;Won * ''

'' (1940) ;Nominated * '' The Blue Bird'' (1940) * '' A Yank in the R.A.F.'' (1941)

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* 1894 births 1962 deaths American audio engineers Special effects people People from Springfield, Illinois Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners Best Visual Effects Academy Award winners Engineers from Illinois 20th-century American engineers {{US-audio-engineer-stub