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Tampa, Florida, USA

Richard King

Biography:

Richard King is an American film sound designer and editor who has worked on over 70 films. A native of Tampa, Florida, he graduated from the University of South Florida with a BFA in painting and film. He has won Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing for the films Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Dark Knight(2008), Inception (2010), Dunkirk (2017) and the Academy Award for  Best Sound for Dune: Part Two (2024). He was also nominated for War of the Worlds (2005),  Interstellar (2014), Oppenheimer (2023), and Maestro (2023). He has won BAFTA awards for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Inception (2010), Dunkirk (2017), and Dune: Part Two (2024). He has won eight MPSE awards for Best Sound Editing & Design and the MPSE Career Achievement Award (2016).

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Known For

Acting

2019

2012

1953

The Oscars as Self

Sound

2024

Dune: Part Two as Supervising Sound Editor
Juror #2 as Sound Editor

2023

Maestro as Sound Designer
Maestro as Supervising Sound Editor
Oppenheimer as Sound Designer

2022

The Sea Beast as Supervising Sound Editor
The Sea Beast as Sound Designer

2021

The Harder They Fall as Supervising Sound Editor
The Harder They Fall as Sound Designer
King Richard as Supervising Sound Editor
King Richard as Sound Designer

2020

Tenet as Supervising Sound Editor
Tenet as Sound Designer

2019

Dark Phoenix as Supervising Sound Editor

2017

Dunkirk as Supervising Sound Editor

2016

The 5th Wave as Sound Re-Recording Mixer
The 5th Wave as Supervising Sound Editor
Stealing Cars as Sound Editor
Suicide Squad as Supervising Sound Editor
Suicide Squad as Sound Designer

2014

Interstellar as Supervising Sound Editor
Mr. Peabody & Sherman as Sound Designer
Mr. Peabody & Sherman as Supervising Sound Editor

2012

The Dark Knight Rises as Supervising Sound Editor
The Dark Knight Rises as Sound Designer
Rise of the Guardians as Sound Designer
Rise of the Guardians as Supervising Sound Editor
Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos as Supervising Sound Editor

2011

Arthur as Sound Designer
In Time as Supervising Sound Editor
Puss in Boots as Sound Designer
Puss in Boots as Supervising Sound Editor
Thor as Sound Designer
Thor as Supervising Sound Editor

2010

The Way Back as Sound Designer
The Way Back as Supervising Sound Editor
Brooklyn's Finest as Sound Effects Editor
Inception as Sound Designer

2009

Land of the Lost as Supervising Sound Editor
Land of the Lost as Sound Designer

2008

The Dark Knight as Supervising Sound Editor
The Dark Knight as Sound Designer
Fool's Gold as Sound Designer
Fool's Gold as Supervising Sound Editor

2006

The Prestige as Sound Designer
The Prestige as Supervising Sound Editor
Firewall as Sound Designer

2005

War of the Worlds as Sound Designer
War of the Worlds as Supervising Sound Editor

2004

Walking Tall as Sound Designer
Walking Tall as Supervising Sound Editor

2002

S1m0ne as Sound Designer
S1m0ne as Supervising Sound Editor
Signs as Sound Designer
Signs as Supervising Sound Editor
Bloody Sunday as Sound Re-Recording Mixer

2000

Unbreakable as Sound Designer

1999

Magnolia as Sound Designer
Magnolia as Supervising Sound Editor

1998

Why Do Fools Fall In Love as Sound Designer
The Gingerbread Man as Sound Designer
In God's Hands as Supervising Sound Editor

1997

Gattaca as Supervising Sound Editor
The Jackal as Supervising Sound Editor

1996

That Thing You Do! as Supervising Sound Editor
The People vs. Larry Flynt as Sound Effects Editor
Hard Eight as Sound Designer

1995

Waterworld as Sound Effects Editor
Money Train as Sound Effects Editor

1994

Wolf as Sound Editor
The Shadow as Sound Effects Editor
Blue Sky as Sound Effects Editor

1993

My Life as Supervising Sound Editor
Malice as Sound Editor

1991

Doc Hollywood as Supervising Sound Editor
Sleeping with the Enemy as Sound Effects Editor
Mortal Thoughts as Supervising Sound Editor

1990

Love at Large as Supervising Sound Editor
Captain America as Supervising Sound Editor
Blue Steel as Supervising Sound Editor

1988

A Time of Destiny as Supervising Sound Editor
Far North as Supervising Sound Editor
I, Alison... as Sound

1987

Ishtar as Assistant Sound Editor

1986

Murphy's Law as Sound Effects Editor
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold as Supervising Sound Editor
The Delta Force as Sound Effects Editor
P.O.W. The Escape as Sound Effects Editor

1984

The Rosebud Beach Hotel as Supervising Sound Editor

1982

Moonlighting as ADR Mixer

1981

Quartet as Sound Re-Recording Mixer

1980

Exchange and Divide as Sound Re-Recording Mixer

1973

Simply Metric as Sound

Crew

2015

Quay as Thanks