Mary H. Ellis is an 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 ...

. She has been nominated twice for an

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 ...

(for '' First Man'' in 2019 and ''

Baby Driver ''Baby Driver'' is a 2017 action crime film written and directed by Edgar Wright. It stars Ansel Elgort as a getaway driver seeking freedom from a life of crime with his girlfriend Debora (Lily James). Kevin Spacey, Eiza González, Jon Ber ...

'' in 2018). Both films also received nominations for the

BAFTA Award for Best Sound The BAFTA Award for Best Sound is a film award that is presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to sound designers, sound editors, sound engineers, and sound mixers. It has been presented at the annual British Acad ...

. Mary is the second female production mixer to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Life/Education

Ellis studied at the University of Alabama with a degree in Film and Television. Ellis is from Atlanta. She said of working on ''Baby Driver'', “Being an Atlanta local, I grew up in this industry with most of the crew on this show, so there is a lot of respectful assistance.”

Career

Her first big break was working on ''

Fried Green Tomatoes ''Fried Green Tomatoes'' is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Jon Avnet and based on Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel '' Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe''. Written by Flagg and Carol Sobieski, and starring Kathy Bates, J ...

.''

Awards

She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie for her work ''Warm Springs'' in 2005. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on ''Andersonville'' in 1996. Mary has also been nominated for four

Cinema Audio Society Awards The Cinema Audio Society Awards are an annual awards ceremony given by the Cinema Audio Society that honor outstanding achievements in sound mixing. These awards have been presented by the Cinema Audio Society since 1994. The competition is open ...

. Ellis was named to the Cinema Audio Society Board of Directors in 2019.

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* Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Women audio engineers Production sound mixers American audio engineers {{US-audio-engineer-stub