Christopher Boyes is 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, reproduction, ...

. He has won four

Academy Awards The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

and has been nominated for another ten. He has worked on more than 100 films since 1991.

Academy Awards

Boyes has won four

and has been nominated for another nine: ;Wins * ''

Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, Unite ...

'' ( Best Sound Effects Editing) (1997) * ''

Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It was often visited by the Naval fleet of the United States, before it was acquired from the Hawaiian Kingdom by the U.S. with the signing of the ...

'' ( Best Sound Editing) (2001) * '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (

Best Sound Mixing The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Awards, Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most phonaesthetics, euphonic Audio mixing (film and television), sound mixing, recording, sound design, and Sound editor (filmmaking), sound edit ...

) (2003) * ''

King Kong King Kong is a fictional giant monster resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933. He has been dubbed The Eighth Wonder of the World, a phrase commonly used within the franchise. His first appearance was in the novelizat ...

'' (

) (2005) ;Nominations * '' The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' ( Best Sound) (2001) * '' The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' ( Best Sound) (2002) * '' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'' (

and Best Sound Editing) (2003) * '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' (

and Best Sound Editing) (2006) * ''

Iron Man Iron Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was co-created by writer and editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. The charact ...

'' ( Best Sound Editing) (2008) * ''

Avatar Avatar (, ; ), is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means "descent". It signifies the material appearance or incarnation of a powerful deity, goddess or spirit on Earth. The relative verb to "alight, to make one's appeara ...

'' (

and Best Sound Editing) (2009) * '' The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'' (

) (2013)

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American audio engineers Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners Best Sound Editing Academy Award winners San Francisco State University alumni {{US-audio-engineer-stub