Wylie Stateman
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Wylie Stateman
| Wylie Stateman | |
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| Occupation | Supervising Sound Editor Sound Designer Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1980–present |
Wylie Stateman is an American-born supervising sound editor. Stateman’s been nominated for multiple industry awards, including five Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and 15 Motion Picture Sound Editor Awards. Stateman is the co-founder of post production sound services company Soundelux [1]
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Early career
Stateman was introduced to the world of feature films in 1980, working as a sound editor on A Coal Miner’s Daughter.[2] Over the next five years, his name appeared on such films as Das Boot, TRON, and Footloose.[3]
Noteworthy Collaborators
Stateman regularly works with some of the most prominent film directors in the industry, including:
Oliver Stone — W., World Trade Center, Alexander, Any Given Sunday, Nixon, Natural Born Killers, Heaven & Earth, JFK, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July and Talk Radio.[3]
Quentin Tarantino — Inglorious Basterds, Grindhouse: Death Proof, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2[3]
John Hughes — Dennis the Menace, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Curly Sue, Dutch, Only the Lonely, Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, Uncle Buck, She’s Having a Baby, Planes, Trans & Automobiles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.[3]
Rob Marshall — Nine and Memoirs of a Geisha[3]
Cameron Crowe — Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire[3]
Producer Credits
Stateman is credited as executive producer on the 2000 release ‘’True Rights’’ and the 1999 film The Dogwalker.[3]
Awards and nominations
Wylie Stateman has been nominated for 5 Academy Awards, 4 BAFTA Awards (1 win), 15 Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards (3 wins), an Emmy Award and a Satellite Award.[3]
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Entrepreneur
In addition to his film work, Stateman has been an active entrepreneur with a handful of sound related businesses. Along with partner Lon Bender, Stateman has hand in starting Liberty Livewire Audio, Signet Soundelux Studios, Vine Street Studios, Soundelux Media Labs, Modern Music and a leading sound effects library known as The Hollywood Edge.[6]
A 2005 article in Mix magazine reported that Stateman was serving as the executive vice president of the Creative Sound Services group and as a supervising sound editor at Ascent Media Group.[7]
Stateman, Bender and Hugh Waddell created VocalStream — a company posed to produce and distribute audio content read by professional voice talents and sent out via client-branded players, in 2007.
In 2008, Stateman and Bender launched Store-Stream, an Internet company created for end users where they can store their media libraries, create unique media players and send them out to friends or clients.
References
- ^ [1] New York Times, 31 July 1998
- ^ Stateman mixes wide mix, David John Farinella, Variety Magazine, 12 January 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g h [2] IMDB
- ^ "The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/62nd-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ MPSE Announces Winners of 2010 Golden Reel Awards, Staff Report, Mix Magazine, 22 February 2010
- ^ [3] The Hollywood Edge: the EFX-Music Package, Staff Report, Mix magazine, 1 December 2002
- ^ [4] Ascent Media Group Announces Staff Changes, Mix Editors, Mix Magazine, 6 December 2005
External links
- Wylie Stateman at the Internet Movie Database
- Soundelux webpage
- CSS Studios Webpage
- Variety magazine Stateman mixes wide mix
- VocalStream Webpage
- Store-Stream Webpage
Additional Articles & Interviews
- Variety magazine Sound editing vs. sound mixing
- Variety magazine Using surround sound proves tricky
- Variety magazine Sound effects anchor big films
- Variety magazine Stylized sound enhances action
- Variety magazine story about Liberty Livewire
- Mix magazine Rob Marshall's Nine
- Below the Line website Contender - Sound Editing, Wylie Stateman, 'Wanted,' 8 February 2009
- Millimeter magazine Sonic Stone by Blair Jackson 1 December 2004
- Editors Guild magazine Basterd Sounds by Debra Kaufman
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