Michael Minkler was born on 14 May 1952 and is an American motion picture sound re-recording mixer.
15 Facts About Michael Minkler
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Michael Minkler has received Academy Awards for his work on Dreamgirls, Chicago and Black Hawk Down.
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Michael Minkler is the Managing Director of Moving Pictures Media Group, a company that specializes in film development, packaging projects for production funding acquisition.
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Michael Minkler continued to work with Piantadosi and Fresholtz on another 35 films, and considers them his mentors.
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Michael Minkler came to Hollywood to work on the Vitaphone project at Warner Bros.
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Darrell Michael Minkler built a company then called Radio Recorders for music recording with such pop classic performers as Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Tommy Dorsey.
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Don Michael Minkler's re-recording career includes such films as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
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In 1984, Michael Minkler struck out as an independent, working at a number of facilities, until 1990 when he helped design and staff Skywalker Sound's Lantana facility in Santa Monica.
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Michael Minkler continued to mix there after the facility was acquired by Todd-AO.
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Michael Minkler has always been considered an innovator of technology and technique.
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On Inglourious Basterds, Michael Minkler utilized a new technology developed by Penteo Surround that enables stereo music mixes to be converted and spread across a 5.1 surround sound field.
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Michael Minkler has been nominated for 12 Academy Awards, six BAFTA Awards, eight Cinema Audio Society Awards, one Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards, seven Emmy Award and four Satellite Awards.
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In 2006, Michael Minkler received the Cinema Audio Society's Career Achievement Award at the 42nd annual CAS Awards Banquet.
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Michael Minkler was the president of the Cinema Audio Society in 1981.
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Michael Minkler apologized to O'Connell within a few weeks of making his original remarks in an open letter, and by calling and speaking to him personally, as referenced in the letter.