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Christopher Boyes

Boyes at the 78th Academy Awards
15 Nominations / 4 Wins
Role Sound
Born 1972
UK
 

Christopher Boyes is an Academy Award-winning American sound designer, mixer and editor of Lucasfilm's Skywalker Sound. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another nine. He has worked on over 70 films since 1991 including Iron Man, King Kong, Avatar and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and the rest of the LOTR trilogy. In addition to feature film work, he has done extensive field recording all around the world. Mr. Boyes has also created special sound EFX for multiple applications like high-end commercials and radio tags for European radio stations. Mr. Boyes also designed applications for audio outboard gear such as reverb processing devices.

Wins[]

70th Academy Awards, 1997
Best Sound Effects EditingTitanic (shared with Tom Bellfort)
74th Academy Awards, 2001
Best Sound EditingPearl Harbor (shared with George Watters II)
76th Academy Awards, 2003
Best Sound MixingThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (shared with Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek)
78th Academy Awards, 2005
Best Sound MixingKing Kong (shared with Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek)

Nominations[]

70th Academy Awards, 1997
Best Sound Effects EditingTitanic (shared with Tom Bellfort)
74th Academy Awards, 2001
Best SoundThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (shared with Michael Semanick, Gethin Creagh and Hammond Peek)
Best Sound EditingPearl Harbor (shared with George Watters II)
75th Academy Awards, 2002
Best SoundThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (shared with Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek)
76th Academy Awards, 2003
Best Sound EditingPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (shared with George Watters II)
Best Sound MixingThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (shared with Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek)
Best Sound MixingPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (shared with David Parker, David Campbell and Lee Orloff)
78th Academy Awards, 2005
Best Sound MixingKing Kong (shared with Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek)
79th Academy Awards, 2006
Best Sound EditingPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (shared with George Watters II)
Best Sound MixingPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (shared with Paul Massey and Lee Orloff)
81st Academy Awards, 2008
Best Sound EditingIron Man (shared with Frank Eulner)
82nd Academy Awards, 2009
Best Sound EditingAvatar (shared with Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
Best Sound MixingAvatar (shared with Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson)
86th Academy Awards, 2013
Best Sound MixingThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (shared with Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson)
95th Academy Awards, 2022
Best SoundAvatar: Way of Water (shared with Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Gary Summers, and Michael Hedges)

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