Biography

From the San Fernando Valley, Steve entered the entertainment industry in late 1969 as a roadie with a local group called the Strawberry Alarm Clock that hit it big with their national hit "Incense and Peppermint." From there he went into the recording industry learning and becoming a recording engineer, working with dozens of groups including Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons and A Taste of Honey. With these two groups Steve was awarded a gold record, a platinum record and a platinum album for "Oh What A Night (December 1963)" and "Boogie Oogie Oogie."

By late 1978 opportunity knocked once more and Steve entered the film business and immediately became immersed with work on such films as The Last Waltz (1978), 10 (1979), Hair (1979), More American Graffiti (1979), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981).

Steve was awarded the first of three Academy Awards in 1981 for Best Sound for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and again in 1982 for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). 1984 saw another nomination for Dune (1984). Another Academy Award was given in 1995 for Speed (1994), which also gave him his first British Academy Award. 1996 I was again nominated for the film Waterworld (1995), 1997 nominated for Twister (1996) and in 2001 nominated for U-571 (2000).

Later films worked on include The Town (2010), The Conjuring (2013) and The Great Gatsby (2013).
- IMDb mini biography by: Jwelch5742

Sony Studios in Culver City, California

(1994-May 2004) Universal Studios Sound-Mixing Stage 6 in Universal City, California.

(January 2011-present) Warner Bros. Sound Re-Recording Stage 6 in Burbank, California.

He contributed with the sound department of six films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Ordinary People (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Children of a Lesser God (1986), Broadcast News (1987), Ghost (1990) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Of those, Ordinary People (1980) is a winner in the category.