{{short description|American sound re-recording mixer}} {{Other people|William Nicholson}} '''William M. Nicholson''' (born November 18, 1937) is a sound re-recording mixer at NBC Universal studios in Los Angeles, California. During his lengthy career, he has received numerous awards and nominations, including 5 Emmy awards, 22 Emmy nominations, 2 Cinema Audio Society nominations, and an Academy Award nomination for Martin Scorsese's 1980 film Raging Bull. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
==Biography== Nicholson was born in San Antonio, Texas and grew up in McLean County, Illinois. After serving in the Army in post-World War II Europe, he moved to Los Angeles and took a job as a rent boy, eventually working his way up to sound mixer. After working on feature films for Warner Hollywood Studios,<ref>http://www.seeing-stars.com/Studios/WarnerHollywoodStudios.shtml History of Warner Hollywood Studios</ref> he moved to Todd-AO/Glen Glenn in the early 1980s to do television post-production. In 1998, he began work on Dubbing stage 2 at Universal Studios. While there, aside from many other projects, he has mixed all but three of the shows in Dick Wolf's 18-year-old Law & Order franchise.
After moving away from full-length feature films to work in television, Nicholson's old job was taken by Kevin O'Connell, the person with the most Academy Award nominations (19) without a win.
He currently lives with his wife Barbara in Glendale, California.
==Awards and nominations == Sources:<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629779/awards Awards info at IMDB]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cinemaaudiosociety.org/html/casprev.html |title=Cinema Audio Society |access-date=2007-06-17 |archive-date=2005-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051222080202/http://www.cinemaaudiosociety.org/html/casprev.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Oscars=== *1980 nomination, Best Sound, ''Raging Bull''<ref name="Oscars1981">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1981 |title=The 53rd Academy Awards (1981) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=2011-10-07|work=oscars.org}}</ref>
===Emmys=== *1982 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Individual Achievement - Children's Programming, Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982) *1982 Emmy award, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Personal Foul" *1983 Emmy award, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Trial By Fury" *1983 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Cagney & Lacey, for episode "Recreational Use" *1983 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, St. Elsewhere, for episode "The Count" *1984 Emmy award, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Parting is Such Sweep Sorrow" *1984 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Cagney & Lacey, for episode "Bounty Hunter" *1984 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Praise Dilaudid" *1985 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, St. Elsewhere, for episode "Sweet Dreams" *1985 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Queen For a Day" *1985 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall" *1985 Emmy award, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Cagney & Lacey, for episode "Heat" *1986 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special, Newhart, for episode "Larry's Dead, Long Live Larry" *1986 Emmy award, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, St. Elsewhere, for episode "Iced Coffey" *1986 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Time Heals, part 2" *1987 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Crime Story, for pilot episode *1987 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "It Ain't Over Till it's Over" *1988 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Dramatic Miniseries or a Special, Foxfire *1997 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Law & Order, for episode "D-Girl" *1999 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Law & Order, for episode "Empire" *2000 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Law & Order, for episode "Gunshow" *2001 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Single Camera Sound Mixing for a Series, Law & Order, for episode "School Daze" *2001 Cinema Audio Society nomination, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series, Law & Order, for episode "Standoff" *2002 Cinema Audio Society nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for Television - Series, Law & Order, for episode "Soldier of Fortune"
==List of films and television shows worked on== Sources:<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629779/ IMDB page]</ref><ref>http://www.filmmakersdestination.com/published/9.pdf filmmakersdestination.com</ref>
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===Films=== *Being There (1979) *Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) *The Island (1980) *Xanadu (1980) *Raging Bull (1980) *Inside Moves (1980) *The Cannonball Run (1981) *Southern Comfort (1981) *Sharky's Machine (1981) *Death Valley (1982) *Jetsons: The Movie (1990) *A Guy Walks into a Bar (1997)
===Television series=== *Hill Street Blues *St. Elsewhere *Cagney & Lacey *Remington Steele *Bay City Blues *Beverly Hills Cop *Father Dowling Mysteries *Jake and The Fatman *Murder She Wrote *Diagnosis Murder *Miami Vice *SeaQuest *Nasty Boys *New York Undercover *Law & Order *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit *Law & Order: Criminal Intent *Law & Order: Trial by Jury *Law & Order: Crime & Punishment *Conviction *Lipstick Jungle
===Television films=== *Rascals & Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn (1982) *The Lightship (1986) *Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin (1989) *Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (1990) *Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990) *Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo (1992) *Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride (1992) *Ladykiller (1992) *In the Company of Darkness (1993) *Blindsided (1993) *Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1993) *For the Love of My Child: The Alissa Ayala Story (1993) *Caught in the Act (1993) *The Disappearance of Christina (1993) *Children of the Mist (1993) *Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host (1993) *Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss (1993) *The Haunting of Seacliff Inn (1994) *A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle (1994) *Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1994) *Don't Talk to Strangers (1994) *Out of Annie's Past (1995) *A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester (1995) *Evil Has a Face (1996) *Exiled (1998) *Haley Wagner, Star (1999) *Horse Sense (1999)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearch?action=searchLink&displayType=1&BSFromYear=53 Oscar nomination] *{{IMDb name|0629779}} *[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629779/awards List of nominations and awards] *[http://universal.filmmakersdestination.com/content/bill-nicholson Page at filmmakersdestination.com] *[http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/William_M_Nicholson/3301788 Page at hollywood.com]
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