Elliot Tyson (born November 20, 1952) is an American
sound engineer. He won an
Academy Award for
Best Sound
This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow List of film awards, film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards.
Best Actor/Best Actress
*See Best Actor#Film awa ...
and has been nominated for three more in the same category. He has worked on more than 160 films since 1979.
Selected filmography
Tyson won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another three:
;Won
* ''
Glory'' (1989)
;Nominated
* ''
Mississippi Burning
''Mississippi Burning'' is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker that is loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi. It stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI ...
'' (1988)
* ''
The Shawshank Redemption'' (1994)
* ''
The Green Mile'' (1999)
References
External links
*
1952 births
Living people
American audio engineers
Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners
Best Sound BAFTA Award winners
Engineers from California
People from Santa Monica, California
{{US-audio-engineer-stub