{{short description|American sound re-recording mixer}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Gary Summers | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Sound engineer | years_active = 1980–present }} '''Gary Summers''' is an American re-recording mixer.
He has done the sound re-recording on many blockbuster motion pictures including ''Avatar'', ''Titanic'', ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', ''Saving Private Ryan'', ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' and ''Jurassic Park''. Summers has won four Academy Awards, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA awards and three C.A.S. Awards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mixonline.com/news/headline/toddao-hires-garysummers-112906/|title=Article Categories - Mixonline|website=mixonline.com|access-date=2010-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604141703/http://mixonline.com/news/headline/toddao-hires-garysummers-112906/|archive-date=2011-06-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He got his start working on The Empire Strikes Back and began twenty years working for the Skywalker Sound division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in Marin County, California.<ref name="The Press Democrat - 1999">{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=0EAFEE4668ECE8A2&p_docnum=1&s_dlid=DL0110012910284413157&s_ecproduct=SUB-FREE&s_ecprodtype=INSTANT&s_siteloc=&s_referrer=&s_subterm=Subscription%20until:%2012/14/2015%2011:59%20PM&s_docsbal=%20&s_subexpires=12/14/2015%2011:59%20PM&s_docstart=&s_docsleft=&s_docsread=|title=The Press Democrat - 1999}}</ref> Summers formed Summers Sound Services, Inc. in 2002 and is currently self-employed.
==Academy Awards== Summers has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for eight more:
;Wins * ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991)<ref name="Oscars1992">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992 |title=The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-22|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Jurassic Park'' (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> * ''Titanic'' (1997)<ref name="Oscars1998">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1998 |title=The 70th Academy Awards (1998) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-19|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Saving Private Ryan'' (1998)<ref name="Oscars1999">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1999 |title=The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-19|work=oscars.org}}</ref>
;Nominated * ''Return of the Jedi'' (1983)<ref name="Oscars1984">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1984 |title=The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-09|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (1989)<ref name="Oscars1990">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1990 |title=The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-10-17|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Backdraft'' (1991)<ref name="Oscars1992" /> * ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' (2009)<ref name="Oscars2010">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2010 |title=The 82nd Academy Awards (2010) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-22|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''Avatar'' (2009)<ref name="Oscars2010" /> * ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' (2011)<ref name="Oscars2012">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2012 |title=The 84th Academy Awards (2012) Nominees |access-date=2012-01-26|work=oscars.org}}</ref> * ''13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi'' (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://oscar.go.com/nominees|title = Oscar Nominations 2021: The Complete List | 93rd Academy Awards}}</ref> * ''Avatar: The Way of Water'' (2022)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023|title = Oscar Nominations 2023: The Complete List | 95th Academy Awards| date=19 March 2024 }}</ref>
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