American production sound mixer (born 1958)
Peter Kurland
Born Peter Franklin Kurland
1958 (age 65–66)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 , and
O Brother, Where Art Thou? . He won two Grammy's for 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 , which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
[3] as well as the BAFTA award. In 2011, he won the CAS award and was nominated for the BAFTA, and the Best Sound Oscar, this time for the film
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]
Personal life
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 .
References
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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 Ginzsel,
Frank Kruse ,
Viktor Prášil and
Markus Stemler (2022)
Johnnie Burn and
Tarn Willers (2023)