Nathan Levinson
American sound engineer
Nathan Levinson | |
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Born | (1888-07-15)July 15, 1888 New York City, New York, United States |
Died | October 18, 1952(1952-10-18) (aged 64) Toluca Lake, California, United States |
Occupation | Sound engineer |
Years active | 1927-1951 |
Nathan Levinson (July 15, 1888 – October 18, 1952) was an American sound engineer. He won an Oscar in the category Sound Recording for the film Yankee Doodle Dandy[1] and was nominated for 16 more in the same category. He was also nominated seven times in the category Best Special Effects.
The Oscar statue that Levinson won for Yankee Doodle Dandy was sold for nearly $90,000 at an auction in Dallas in July 2011.[2]
Selected filmography
Levinson won an Academy Award and was nominated for 16 more in the category Best Sound. He was also nominated seven times for Best Special Effects:
- Won
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)[1]
- Nominated (Best Sound)
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)[3]
- 42nd Street (1933)[3]
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)[3]
- Flirtation Walk (1934)[4]
- Captain Blood (1935)[5]
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)[6]
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937)[7]
- Four Daughters (1938)[8]
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)[9]
- The Sea Hawk (1940)[10]
- Sergeant York (1941)[11]
- This Is the Army (1943)[12]
- Hollywood Canteen (1944)[13]
- Rhapsody in Blue (1945)[14]
- Johnny Belinda (1948)[15]
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)[16]
- Nominated (Best Special Effects)
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)[9]
- The Sea Hawk (1940)[10]
- The Sea Wolf (1941)[11]
- Desperate Journey (1942)[1]
- Air Force (1943)[12]
- The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)[13]
- A Stolen Life (1946)
References
- ^ a b c "The 15th Academy Awards (1943) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ Richter, Marice. "Oscar statue from 1940s fetches $89,625 in Dallas auction". Yahoo News. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ a b c "The 6th Academy Awards (1934) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ "The 7th Academy Awards (1935) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ "The 8th Academy Awards (1935) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ "The 9th Academy Awards (1936) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
- ^ "The 10th Academy Awards (1938) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
- ^ "The 11th Academy Awards (1939) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
- ^ a b "The 12th Academy Awards (1940) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
- ^ a b "The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
- ^ a b "The 14th Academy Awards (1942) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
- ^ a b "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
- ^ a b "The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
- ^ "The 18th Academy Awards (1946) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
- ^ "The 21st Academy Awards (1949) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
- ^ "The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 20, 2011.
External links
- Nathan Levinson at IMDb
- Nathan Levinson at Find a Grave
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Academy Honorary Award
- Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928)
- Walt Disney (1932)
- Shirley Temple (1934)
- D. W. Griffith (1935)
- The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936)
- Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937)
- J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney / Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst / Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey / Harry Warner (1938)
- Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad Nagel)/ Technicolor SA (1939)
- Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1940)
- Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company / Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
- Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
- George Pal (1943)
- Bob Hope / Margaret O'Brien (1944)
- Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner (1945)
- Harold Russell / Laurence Olivier / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)
- James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
- Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948)
- Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949)
- Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950)
- Gene Kelly / Rashomon (1951)
- Merian C. Cooper / Bob Hope / Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952)
- 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)
- Bausch & Lomb Optical Company / Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver / Greta Garbo / Jon Whiteley / Vincent Winter / Gate of Hell (1954)
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
- Eddie Cantor (1956)
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson / Charles Brackett / B. B. Kahane (1957)
- Maurice Chevalier (1958)
- Buster Keaton / Lee de Forest (1959)
- Gary Cooper / Stan Laurel / Hayley Mills (1960)
- William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler / Jerome Robbins (1961)
- William J. Tuttle (1964)
- Bob Hope (1965)
- Yakima Canutt / Y. Frank Freeman (1966)
- Arthur Freed (1967)
- John Chambers / Onna White (1968)
- Cary Grant (1969)
- Lillian Gish / Orson Welles (1970)
- Charlie Chaplin (1971)
- Charles S. Boren / Edward G. Robinson (1972)
- Henri Langlois / Groucho Marx (1973)
- Howard Hawks / Jean Renoir (1974)
- Mary Pickford (1975)
- Margaret Booth (1977)
- Walter Lantz / Laurence Olivier / King Vidor / Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (1978)
- Hal Elias / Alec Guinness (1979)
- Henry Fonda (1980)
- Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
- Mickey Rooney (1982)
- Hal Roach (1983)
- James Stewart / National Endowment for the Arts (1984)
- Paul Newman / Alex North (1985)
- Ralph Bellamy (1986)
- Eastman Kodak Company / National Film Board of Canada (1988)
- Akira Kurosawa (1989)
- Sophia Loren / Myrna Loy (1990)
- Satyajit Ray (1991)
- Federico Fellini (1992)
- Deborah Kerr (1993)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1994)
- Kirk Douglas / Chuck Jones (1995)
- Michael Kidd (1996)
- Stanley Donen (1997)
- Elia Kazan (1998)
- Andrzej Wajda (1999)
- Jack Cardiff / Ernest Lehman (2000)
- Sidney Poitier / Robert Redford (2001)
- Peter O'Toole (2002)
- Blake Edwards (2003)
- Sidney Lumet (2004)
- Robert Altman (2005)
- Ennio Morricone (2006)
- Robert F. Boyle (2007)
- Lauren Bacall / Roger Corman / Gordon Willis (2009)
- Kevin Brownlow / Jean-Luc Godard / Eli Wallach (2010)
- James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011)
- D. A. Pennebaker / Hal Needham / George Stevens Jr. (2012)
- Angela Lansbury / Steve Martin / Piero Tosi (2013)
- Jean-Claude Carrière / Hayao Miyazaki / Maureen O'Hara (2014)
- Spike Lee / Gena Rowlands (2015)
- Jackie Chan / Lynn Stalmaster / Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman (2016)
- Charles Burnett / Owen Roizman / Donald Sutherland / Agnès Varda (2017)
- Marvin Levy / Lalo Schifrin / Cicely Tyson (2018)
- David Lynch / Wes Studi / Lina Wertmüller (2019)
- Samuel L. Jackson / Elaine May / Liv Ullmann (2021)
- Euzhan Palcy / Diane Warren / Peter Weir (2022)
- Angela Bassett / Mel Brooks / Carol Littleton (2023)
- Quincy Jones / Juliet Taylor (2024)