| Ben Burtt | |
|---|---|
 Burtt at the 81st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon | |
| 10 Nominations / 4 Wins | |
| Role | Sound Editor |
| Born | July 12, 1948 |
| Jamesville, New York, USA | |
Ben Burtt is an Academy Award-winning American sound designer who has worked on various films including: the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" film series, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and WALL-E (2008). He is also a film editor and director, screenwriter, and voice actor. He is most notable for creating many of the iconic sound effects heard in the Star Wars film franchise, including the "voice" of R2-D2, the lightsaber hum, the sound of the blaster guns, and the heavy-breathing sound of Darth Vader.
Wins[]
- 55th Academy Awards, 1982
- Best Sound Effects Editing — E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (shared with Charles L. Campbell)
- 62nd Academy Awards, 1989
- Best Sound Effects Editing — Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (shared with Richard Hymns)
Special and Honorary Awards[]
- 50th Academy Awards, 1977
- Special Achievement Award — for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices featured in Star Wars
- 54th Academy Awards, 1981
- Special Achievement Award — for Sound Effects Editing achievement in Raiders of the Lost Ark (shared with Richard L. Anderson)
Nominations[]
- 55th Academy Awards, 1982
- Best Sound Effects Editing — E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (shared with Charles L. Campbell)
- 56th Academy Awards, 1983
- Best Sound — Return of the Jedi (shared with Gary Summers, Randy Thom and Tony Dawe)
- Best Sound Effects Editing — Return of the Jedi
- 61st Academy Awards, 1988
- Best Sound Effects Editing — Willow (shared with Richard Hymns)
- 62nd Academy Awards, 1989
- Best Sound — Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (shared with Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy and Tony Dawe)
- Best Sound Effects Editing — Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (shared with Richard Hymns)
- 69th Academy Awards, 1996
- Best Documentary Short — Special Effects (shared with Susanne Simpson)
- 72nd Academy Awards, 1999
- Best Sound Effects Editing — Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (shared with Tom Bellfort)
- 81st Academy Awards, 2008
- Best Sound Editing — WALL-E (shared with Matthew Wood)
- Best Sound Mixing — WALL-E (shared with Tom Myers and Michael Semanick)