Sound

Gary Summers

Gary Summers

Citizenship
United States
Occupations
audio engineer, engineer

Biography

Gary Summers is an American sound rerecording mixer.

He has done the sound re-recording on a number of blockbuster motion pictures, including Avatar, Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Saving Private Ryan, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Jurassic Park. Summers has won four Oscars, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA awards, and three C.A.S. Awards.

He got his start working on The Empire Strikes Back and began a twenty-year stretch working for the Skywalker Sound division of George Lucas's Lucas Digital in Marin County, California. Summers formed Summers Sound Services, Inc. in 2002 and is currently self-employed.

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Awards

  • Emmy Award
  • Academy Award for Best Sound1992 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • Academy Award for Best Sound1994 Jurassic Park
  • Academy Award for Best Sound1998 Titanic
  • Academy Award for Best Sound1999 Saving Private Ryan

Nominations

  • Academy Award for Best Sound1984 Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
  • Academy Award for Best Sound1990 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • Academy Award for Best Sound1992 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • Academy Award for Best Sound1992 Backdraft
  • Academy Award for Best Sound1994 Jurassic Park
  • Academy Award for Best Sound1998 Titanic
  • Academy Award for Best Sound1999 Saving Private Ryan
  • Academy Award for Best Sound2010 Avatar
  • Academy Award for Best Sound2010 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
  • Academy Award for Best Sound2012 Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  • Academy Award for Best Sound2017 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
  • Academy Award for Best Sound2023 Avatar: The Way of Water

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Filmography

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