Peter Kurland

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Peter Franklin Kurland is a production sound mixer ^[1].

Peter Kurland was born in 1958 and has done boom operation work along with sound mixing on many movies, such as Walk the Line, The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty, Men in Black, Wild Wild West, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?. He won two Grammy's for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a BAFTA award and a CAS award for Walk the Line, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Sound for Walk the Line. IN 2008 he won the CAS award for "No Country for Old Men" was nominated^[2] for the Academy Award for Sound as well as the BAFTA award.

Has worked on every Coen Brothers' film for the past 25 years.

[edit] Personal life

He attended Peabody Demonstration (Now University School of Nashville) School in Nashville, Tennessee. He was once the fire chief at Antioch College. He has two children, Julian David Kurland, who currently has a broken thumb, and Benjamin Franklin Kurland, by his wife, Shannon Dee Wood. She ran for a Tennessee Senate seat in 2000 against Bill Frist.