Biography

Sound department of many Coen brothers films

As of 2026, he has contributed with 14 films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: GoodFellas (1990), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), A Serious Man (2009), True Grit (2010), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), Gravity (2013), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Lady Bird (2017), Roma (2018), Little Women (2019), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) and Marty Supreme (2025). Of those, The Silence of the Lambs (1991), No Country for Old Men (2007) and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) are winners in the category.

The essence of sound design is you can't record the sound. You have to take a lot of sounds and put them together. You can't just go somewhere with a shotgun and a silencer.