Nicolas Becker is a French

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and

sound engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a sound recording, recording or a Concert, live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization (audio), equalization, Dynamic range ...

. He won an

Academy Award The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence ...

in the category

Best Sound The following is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various films, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Bes ...

for the film ''

Sound of Metal ''Sound of Metal'' is a 2019 American drama film directed and co-written by Darius Marder. It stars Riz Ahmed as a metal drummer who loses his hearing, and also features Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff, and Mathieu Amalric. ''Soun ...

''.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (2020, co-won with

Jaime Baksht Jaime Baksht is a Mexican sound engineer. Life and work Baksht has worked as sound re-recording mixer in films such as La primera noche (1998), Herod's Law (1999), Sangre (2005), Batalla en el cielo (2005), En el hoyo (2006), Pan's Labyrint ...

, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh) * ''

Dahomey The Kingdom of Dahomey () was a West African List of kingdoms in Africa throughout history, kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in ...

'' (2024, sound with Corneille Houssou and Cyril Holtz)

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* Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) French audio engineers French composers Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners Best Sound BAFTA Award winners 20th-century French engineers 21st-century French engineers 21st-century French composers {{France-audio-engineer-stub