Mike Hopkins (sound editor)

Mike Hopkins
Born	Michael Alexander Hopkins (1959-08-12)12 August 1959 Greytown, Wellington, New Zealand
Died	30 December 2012(2012-12-30) (aged 53) near Greytown, Wellington, New Zealand
Occupation	Sound editor
Awards	Academy Award for Best Sound Editing (2002 & 2005)

Michael Alexander "Mike" Hopkins (12 August 1959 – 30 December 2012) was a New Zealand sound editor. Hopkins and American Ethan Van der Ryn shared two Academy Awards for best sound editing on the films The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and King Kong. The pair were also nominated for their work on the 2007 film Transformers.

Hopkins died on 30 December 2012 after the raft he was in capsized in a flash flood on the Waiohine River, near his hometown of Greytown.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "Wairarapa Police name Waiohine River victim". New Zealand Police. 2012-12-31. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
↑ "Oscar winner drowns in rafting accident". Television New Zealand. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
↑ "Oscar-winning sound editor drowns". Fairfax Media (via Stuff.co.nz). 31 December 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.

Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
Sound Effects 1963–1967	Walter Elliott (1963) Norman Wanstall (1964) Treg Brown (1965) Gordon Daniel (1966) John Poyner (1967)
Sound Effects Editing 1982–1999	Ben Burtt and Charles L. Campbell (1982) Jay Boekelheide (1983) Special Achievement Academy Award (1984) Charles L. Campbell and Robert Rutledge (1985) Don Sharpe (1986) Special Achievement Academy Award (1987) Charles L. Campbell and Louis Edemann (1988) Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns (1989) Cecelia Hall and George Watters II (1990) Gloria Borders and Gary Rydstrom (1991) Tom McCarthy and David E. Stone (1992) Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom (1993) Stephen Hunter Flick (1994) Lon Bender and Per Hallberg (1995) Bruce Stambler (1996) Tom Bellfort and Christopher Boyes (1997) Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom (1998) Dane Davis (1999)
Sound Editing 2000–present	Jon Johnson (2000) Christopher Boyes and George Watters II (2001) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn (2002) Richard King (2003) Michael Silvers and Randy Thom (2004) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn (2005) Bub Asman and Alan Robert Murray (2006) Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers (2007) Richard King (2008) Paul N. J. Ottosson (2009) Richard King (2010) Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton (2011) Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers / Paul N. J. Ottosson (2012) Glenn Freemantle (2013) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman (2014) Mark Mangini and David White (2015) Sylvain Bellemare (2016)

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