Bob Beemer

{{short description|American sound mixer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{For|the former American football player|Bob Beemer (American football)}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Bob Beemer | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|2|8}} | birth_place = Hollywood, California United States | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Sound engineer | years_active = 1989 – present }}

'''Robert Joseph Beemer''' (born February 8, 1955) is an American sound mixer who has won four Oscars.

==Biography== Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center 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 bachelor's 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).

==Academy Awards== Beemer has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another three:

;Won * ''Speed'' (1994)<ref name="Oscars1995">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1995 |title=The 67th Academy Awards (1995) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-23|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Gladiator'' (2000)<ref name="Oscars2001">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2001 |title=The 73rd Academy Awards (2001) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-19|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Ray'' (2004)<ref name="Oscars2005">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2005 |title=The 77th Academy Awards (2005) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-20|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Dreamgirls'' (2006)<ref name="Oscars2007">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2007 |title=The 79th Academy Awards (2007) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-20|work=oscars.org}}</ref>

;Nominated * ''Cliffhanger'' (1993)<ref name="Oscars1994">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1994 |title=The 66th Academy Awards (1994) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-22|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Independence Day'' (1996)<ref name="Oscars1997">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1997 |title=The 69th Academy Awards (1997) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-23|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Road to Perdition'' (2002)<ref name="Oscars2003">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2003 |title=The 75th Academy Awards (2003) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-20|work=oscars.org}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|2}}

==External links== * {{IMDb name|0066446}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110927185005/http://www.lmu.edu/Page34159.aspx Bob Beemer's profile at LMU website]

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