Randy Thom

Sound designer

Biography
Randy was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, US in 1951. He started his career in radio
and music recording before attempting to work as film sound designer. Randy was
hired on Apocalypse Now (1979) as a sound effects recordist. Since then, he has
worked in a wide variety of creative capacities within the sound department in over
seventy five films.
Thom was the production sound mixer for all the footage shot in the US.
Since 1983, Thom has been on staff as a sound designer and mixer at Lucasfilm's
Skywalker Sound facility. He is part of a small group of sound designers that are
following in Walter Murch and Ben Burtt's footsteps in the continuing work of
turning motion picture sound into an art form and not simply a series of technical
processes.
His work on a film often begins before the film has started shooting, and becomes
an important part of the storytelling and emotional effect of the film.
Through his career Thom has worked with top Hollywood talents such as: Walter
Murch, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Brad Bird, Tim
Burton, Chris Columbus, Mel Brooks and the Farrelly Brothers.
Thom has received two Academy Awards for sound, also he has fourteen Oscar
nominations.

Awards & Nominations

Academy Award Nomination for Best Sound

Mixing Ratatouille

Academy Award for Best Sound The Right Stuff

Academy Award for Best Sound Editing The

Incredibles

Academy Award Nomination for Best SoundThe Polar Express, The Incredibles, Castaway, Contact,
Forest Gump, Backdraft, Wild at heart, Return of the
Jedi, Never Cry Wolf

Academy Award Nomination for Best Sound

Editing The Polar Express, Forest Gump

Recent work
The Revenant (2015) - Supervising Sound Editor
Crimson Peak (2015) - Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) - Sound Re-Recording Mixer,
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer
After Earth (2013) - Sound Designer
Flight (2012) -Sound Designer
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) -Sound Re-Recording Mixer,
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lighting Thief (2010) Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Bibliography
http://designingsound.org/2009/06/junes-featured-randy
-thom/
http://www.skysound.com/people/randy-thom/
http://www.bardradio.com/randy_thom.html
https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42267-randy-thom