American production sound mixer (born 1958)
Peter Kurland
Born Peter Franklin Kurland
Occupation Sound engineer Years active 1984 – present Spouse Shannon Dee Wood (2 children)
Peter Franklin Kurland (born 1958) is an American production sound mixer .[ 1]
Kurland has done boom operation work along with sound mixing on many films, such as Walk the Line The Ladykillers Intolerable Cruelty Men in Black Wild Wild West O Brother, Where Art Thou? O Brother, Where Art Thou? , a BAFTA award and a CAS award for Walk the Line , and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for Walk the Line .[ 2]
In 2008, he won the CAS award for No Country for Old Men [ 3] True Grit [ 4]
Kurland is a frequent collaborator with the Coen Brothers , working on every Coen Brothers ' film for the past 25 years.
Kurland and his wife, Shannon Wood, are co-owners of the Darkhorse Theater , a performing arts venue in Nashville .
In 2014, he was nominated for the CAS award, the BAFTA award and the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for Inside Llewyn Davis [ 5]
He resigned his membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) on 23 March 2022 citing changes to the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards Ceremony where 8 Categories including Best Sound were not presented live but rather during the commercial breaks .[ 6]
Kurland is the son of violinist and musical arranger Sheldon Kurland . He attended Peabody Demonstration School (now University School of Nashville ) in Nashville, Tennessee . He is a graduate of Antioch College , where he was once the fire chief. He is married to Shannon Dee Wood, with whom he has two children. Wood was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate in 2000 , when Bill Frist won re-election. His sons, Julian and Ben, are the founders of BillFixers .
1968–1980
Winston Ryder (1968) Don Challis and Simon Kaye (1969)Don Hall , David Dockendorf and William Edmondson (1970)Vittorio Trentino and Giuseppe Muratori (1971) David Hildyard , Robert Knudson and Arthur Piantadosi (1972)Les Wiggins , Gordon McCallum and Keith Grant (1973)Art Rochester , Nat Boxer , Michael Evje and Walter Murch (1974)William A. Sawyer, James Webb , Chris McLaughlin and Richard Portman (1975) Les Wiggins , Clive Winter and Ken Barker (1976)Peter Horrocks, Gerry Humphreys , Simon Kaye , Robin O'Donoghue and Les Wiggins (1977) Sam Shaw , Robert Rutledge , Gordon Davidson, Gene Corso, Derek Ball , Don MacDougall , Bob Minkler , Ray West , Michael Minkler , Les Fresholtz , Richard Portman and Ben Burtt (1978)Derrick Leather, Jim Shields and Bill Rowe (1979) Christopher Newman , Les Wiggins and Michael J. Kohut (1980) 1981–2000
Don Sharpe , Ivan Sharrock and Bill Rowe (1981)James Guthrie , Eddy Joseph , Clive Winter, Graham V. Hartstone and Nicolas Le Messurier (1982)Willie D. Burton , Michael J. Kohut and William Manger (1983)Ian Fuller, Clive Winter and Bill Rowe (1984) John Nutt, Christopher Newman and Mark Berger (1985) Tom McCarthy Jr. , Peter Handford and Chris Jenkins (1986)Jonathan Bates , Simon Kaye and Gerry Humphreys (1987)Charles L. Campbell , Louis Edemann , Robert Knudson and Tony Dawe (1988)Bill Phillips , Danny Michael , Robert J. Litt , Elliot Tyson and Rick Kline (1989)J. Paul Huntsman , Stephan von Hase, Chris Jenkins , Gary Alexander and Doug Hemphill (1990)Lee Orloff , Tom Johnson , Gary Rydstrom and Gary Summers (1991)Tod A. Maitland , Wylie Stateman , Michael D. Wilhoit , Michael Minkler and Gregg Landaker (1992)John Leveque , Bruce Stambler , Becky Sullivan , Scott D. Smith , Donald O. Mitchell , Michael Herbick and Frank A. Montaño (1993)Stephen Hunter Flick , Gregg Landaker , Steve Maslow , Bob Beemer and David MacMillan (1994)Per Hallberg , Lon Bender , Brian Simmons , Andy Nelson , Scott Millan and Anna Behlmer (1995)Jim Greenhorn, Toivo Lember, Livia Ruzic, Roger Savage and Gareth Vanderhope (1996) Terry Rodman, Roland N. Thai, Kirk Francis , Andy Nelson , Anna Behlmer and John Leveque (1997) Gary Rydstrom , Ron Judkins , Gary Summers , Andy Nelson and Richard Hymns (1998)David Lee , John T. Reitz , Gregg Rudloff , David E. Campbell and Dane Davis (1999)Jeff Wexler , Doug Hemphill , Rick Kline , Paul Massey and Michael D. Wilhoit (2000) 2001–present
Andy Nelson , Anna Behlmer , Roger Savage , Guntis Sics , Gareth Vanderhope and Antony Gray (2001)Michael Minkler , Dominick Tavella , David Lee and Maurice Schell (2002)Richard King , Doug Hemphill , Paul Massey and Art Rochester (2003)Karen Baker Landers , Per Hallberg , Steve Cantamessa , Scott Millan , Greg Orloff and Bob Beemer (2004)Paul Massey , Doug Hemphill , Peter Kurland and Donald Sylvester (2005)Chris Munro , Eddy Joseph , Mike Prestwood Smith , Martin Cantwell and Mark Taylor (2006)Kirk Francis , Scott Millan , Dave Parker , Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg (2007)Glenn Freemantle , Resul Pookutty , Richard Pryke , Tom Sayers and Ian Tapp (2008)Ray Beckett and Paul N. J. Ottosson (2009)Richard King , Lora Hirschberg , Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick (2010)Philip Stockton , Eugene Gearty , Tom Fleischman and John Midgley (2011)Simon Hayes , Andy Nelson , Mark Paterson , Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole and John Warhurst (2012)Glenn Freemantle , Skip Lievsay , Christopher Benstead , Niv Adiri and Chris Munro (2013)Thomas Curley , Ben Wilkins and Craig Mann (2014)Lon Bender , Chris Duesterdiek , Martin Hernández , Frank A. Montaño , Jon Taylor and Randy Thom (2015)Claude La Haye , Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Sylvain Bellemare (2016)Alex Gibson , Richard King , Gregg Landaker , Gary Rizzo and Mark Weingarten (2017)John Casali , Tim Cavagin , Nina Hartstone , Paul Massey and John Warhurst (2018)Scott Millan , Oliver Tarney , Rachael Tate , Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson (2019)Jaime Baksht , Nicolas Becker , Phillip Bladh , Carlos Cortés and Michelle Couttolenc (2020)Ron Bartlett , Theo Green , Doug Hemphill , Mark Mangini and Mac Ruth (2021)Lars Ginzel , Frank Kruse , Viktor Prášil and Markus Stemler (2022)Johnnie Burn and Tarn Willers (2023)
