Bob Beemer

Robert Joseph Beemer, (AKA Bob Beemer; Bobby Beemerino) is an American sound mixer who won four Oscars.

Biography

Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955, at Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California. Graduating from Loyola High School, Los Angeles in 1973, he studied Communication Arts and English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, earning a bachelors degree in 1977 with a double major in those two fields. Always fascinated by sound, he became an expert in remixing for movies. His first professionally recorded sound was on Roots (1977). Beemer was nominated for several Academy Awards, and as of 2007, has won Academy Awards for four films: Speed (1994), Gladiator (2000), Ray (2004), and Dreamgirls (2006).

Filmography

An incomplete list of Beemer's more famous movies:

• The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
• The Passion of the Christ (2004)
• Road to Perdition (2002)
• American Beauty (1999)
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
• Independence Day (1996)
• Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995)
• Cliffhanger (1993)
• Sommersby (1993)
• Lord of the Flies (1990)
• The Abyss (1989)

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