Mark Ulano (June 12, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American

production sound mixer A production sound mixer, location sound recordist, location sound engineer, or simply sound mixer is the member of a film crew or television crew responsible for recording all sound recording on set during the filmmaking or television production ...

. He has won an

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and has been nominated for three in the same category. He has been recording sound for film professionally since 1976. His work on ''

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'' won him an Academy Award for Sound Mixing as well as the Cinema Audio Society Award for Best Sound mixing for a Feature Film. He was also Oscar-nominated for ''

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'', '' Inglorious Basterds'', and ''

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''. Most recently, he served as production sound mixer for '' Killers of the Flower Moon'', directed by

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'', ''

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'', '' Kill Bill Vols. I'' & ''2'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Master'', ''

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'' and over one hundred other films. He has had a 29 year collaboration with

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. Ulano has served five terms as president of

IATSE The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada, known as simply the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE or ...

Local 695 (the film sound union) and also served five terms on the executive committee of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Sound Branch. He has sat ten terms as a board member for the Cinema Audio Society and served as president of that organization for two terms. He is also in the final stages of completing a comprehensive text on the work of Production Sound Mixing. He has authored over 50 articles, interviews and reviews related to Production Sound Mixing. He has frequently been a guest speaker at sound symposiums internationally, including

The Directors Guild of America The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of Film director, film and Television director, television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad. Founded as the Screen Dir ...

, the Rycote World Sound Symposium, The Norwegian Bjoksjo Sound Symposium, The Beijing Film Academy, Digital Video Expo, AES and Cinema Audio Society. He has also directed documentaries including ''I Love What I Do'' and ''Julianna: A Portrait''.

Selected filmography

;Won * ''

'' (1997) ;Nominated * ''

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'' (2009) * ''

'' (2019) * ''

'' (2019)

References

External links

* 1954 births Living people American audio engineers Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners Engineers from New York City {{US-audio-engineer-stub https://www.mainemedia.edu/faculty/list/mark-ulano/