Wylie Stateman

Wylie Stateman
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]

Academy Awards
BAFTA Awards
  • 2004: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Best Sound) – Nominated
  • 2002: Shrek (Best Sound) – Nominated
  • 2001: The Perfect Storm (Best Sound) – Nominated
  • 1993: JFK (Best Sound) – Won
Motion Picture Sound Editors - Golden Reel Award
  • 2010: Inglorious Basterds (Best Sound Editing – Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement) – Won[5]
  • 2009: Wanted (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2007: World Trade Center (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2007: World Trade Center (Best Sound Editing – Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement) – Nominated
  • 2006: Memoirs of a Geisha (Best Sound Editing – Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement) – Won
  • 2006: Memoirs of a Geisha (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2005: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2005: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Best Sound Editing – Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement) – Nominated
  • 2005: Troy (Best Sound Editing in Foreign Features) – Nominated
  • 2004: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2003: We Were Soldiers (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2002: Shrek (Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature Film, Domestic and Foreign) – Nominated
  • 2001: The Perfect Storm (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2000: For Love of the Game (Best Sound Editing – Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement) – Nominated
  • 1990: Born on the Fourth of July (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects) – Won
Emmy Awards
  • 1985: Space (Outstanding Film Sound Editing for a Limited Series or a Special) – Nominated
Satellite Awards
  • 2004: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Best Sound) – Nominated

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. ^ [1] New York Times, 31 July 1998
  2. ^ Stateman mixes wide mix, David John Farinella, Variety Magazine, 12 January 2010
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h [2] IMDB
  4. ^ "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. 
  5. ^ MPSE Announces Winners of 2010 Golden Reel Awards, Staff Report, Mix Magazine, 22 February 2010
  6. ^ [3] The Hollywood Edge: the EFX-Music Package, Staff Report, Mix magazine, 1 December 2002
  7. ^ [4] Ascent Media Group Announces Staff Changes, Mix Editors, Mix Magazine, 6 December 2005

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