Simon Hayes

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Simon Hayes is a British sound engineer. Hayes won an Academy Award for Best Sound at the 85th Academy Awards for his work on Les Misérables. He won a BAFTA for Best Sound for the same film. In 2022, the 94th Academy Awards included Hayes as a nominee for Best Sound Mixing for his work on No Time to Die. After starting work as a runner for a commercials production company when he was 16 years old, Simon Hayes moved into the sound department as an assistant and then boom operator before mixing his first feature film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, at the age of 27. Hayes was the production sound mixer for the 2012 epic period musical film Les Misérables, for which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him the Oscar for Best Sound Mixing at the 85th Academy Awards, alongside Andy Nelson and Mark Paterson. The director, Tom Hooper, required all singing in the film to be recorded live, which was widely deemed to be impracticable. Hayes and his team undertook complex recording, editing, and mixing processes to achieve Hooper's aim. They captured recordings of the actors amidst loud film sets, edited the vocals, then overdubbed the orchestration. Description above from the Wikipedia article Simon Hayes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Gender
male
Place of Birth
London, England, UK

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DepartmentJobMovie / TV ShowGenresReleaseRating
SoundProduction Sound MixerNo Time to Die74% · 6,531
Aladdin71% · 10,231
Life64% · 7,524
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them73% · 19,068
The Legend of Tarzan59% · 6,294
Kingsman: The Secret Service76% · 17,090
Guardians of the Galaxy79% · 28,557
Kick-Ass 264% · 6,276
Prometheus66% · 12,558
X-Men: First Class73% · 12,977
Kick-Ass71% · 11,845
Green Zone65% · 2,232
The Bank Job68% · 2,408
28 Weeks Later66% · 4,548
Sound MixerSnatch78% · 9,324
Sound RecordistShaun of the Dead75% · 8,718
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