{{Short description|American sound designer}} {{Infobox person | name = Skip Lievsay | image = Skip Lievsay in 2009.jpg | caption = Lievsay in 2009 | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | othername = | occupation = Supervising sound editor,<br>Re-recording mixer | yearsactive = 1981 – present }} '''Skip Lievsay''' is an American supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer and sound designer for film and television, Lievsay has worked with filmmakers and directors including Alfonso Cuarón, the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman.
In January 2008, he received two Oscar nominations—for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing—for his work on Joel and Ethan Coen's ''No Country for Old Men''.<ref name="Oscars2008">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/80th-winners.html |title=The 80th Academy Awards (2008) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-22|work=oscars.org}}</ref> In 2011, he was nominated in the same categories for the film ''True Grit''.<ref name="Oscars2011">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/83rd-winners.html |title=The 83rd Academy Awards (2011) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-11-23|work=oscars.org}}</ref>
In 2014, he won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for ''Gravity''; he was also nominated in the same category for the film ''Inside Llewyn Davis'' that same year, and was also nominated for that same category and for Best Sound Editing for ''Roma'' in 2019.<ref name="Oscars2014">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/86/nominees.html |title=Nominees for the 86th Oscars |access-date=2014-01-16 |work=oscars.org}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb name}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080220043948/http://mixonline.com/post/features/30-skip-lievsay/ Mix Magazine Online-Skip Lievsay: Bringing A Musician's Ear To Film Sound]
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