Wylie Stateman
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Wylie Stateman is an American-born supervising sound editor
Supervising Sound Editor
The supervising sound editor, or sound supervisor, is a creative role, working with the Director, Picture Editor and Producer, and is the person responsible for overseeing most aspects of post-production audio on a film or television show. This person coordinates sound editors, sound designers,...

. Stateman’s been nominated for multiple industry awards, including five Academy Awards
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

, four BAFTA Awards and 15 Motion Picture Sound Editor Awards
Motion Picture Sound Editors
Founded in 1953, Motion Picture Sound Editors is an honorary society of motion picture sound editors. The society's goals are to educate others about and increase the recognition of the sound editors, show the artistic merit of the soundtracks, and improve the professional relationship of its...

. Stateman is the co-founder of post production sound services company Soundelux
Soundelux
Soundelux is an audio post production company based in Hollywood, California. Founded by Lon Bender and Wylie Stateman in 1982, Soundelux is currently a member of the CSS Studios, LLC consortium of sound companies....

 

Early career

Stateman was introduced to the world of feature films in 1980, working as a sound editor on A Coal Miner’s Daughter. Over the next five years, his name appeared on such films as Das Boot, TRON, and Footloose.

Noteworthy Collaborators

Stateman regularly works with some of the most prominent film directors in the industry, including:

Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...

 — W., World Trade Center, Alexander, Any Given Sunday, Nixon, Natural Born Killers, Heaven & Earth, JFK, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July and Talk Radio.

Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

 — Inglorious Basterds, Grindhouse: Death Proof, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2

John Hughes — Dennis the Menace, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Curly Sue, Dutch, Only the Lonely, Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, Uncle Buck, She’s Having a Baby, Planes, Trans & Automobiles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture winner Chicago.-Life and career:Marshall was...

 — Nine and Memoirs of a Geisha

Cameron Crowe
Cameron Crowe
Cameron Bruce Crowe is an American screenwriter and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes....

 — Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire

Producer Credits

Stateman is credited as executive producer on the 2000 release ‘’True Rights’’ and the 1999 film The Dogwalker.

Awards and nominations

Wylie Stateman has been nominated for 5 Academy Awards, 4 BAFTA Awards (1 win), 15 Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards (3 wins), an Emmy Award and a Satellite Award.


Academy Awards
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

  • 2010: Inglorious Basterds (Best Sound Editing) – Nominated
  • 2009: Wanted (Best Sound Editing) – Nominated
  • 2006: Memoirs of a Geisha
    Memoirs of a Geisha (film)
    Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment and by Douglas Wick's Red Wagon Productions. It was directed by Rob Marshall. It was released in the United States on December 9, 2005 by...

     (Best Sound Editing) – Nominated
  • 1994: Cliffhanger
    Cliffhanger (film)
    Cliffhanger is a 1993 American action film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone and John Lithgow. Stallone plays a mountain climber, who becomes embroiled in a failed heist set in a U.S. Treasury plane flying through the Rocky Mountains...

     (Best Sound Effects Editing) – Nominated
  • 1990: Born on the Fourth of July
    Born on the Fourth of July (film)
    Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American film adaptation of the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Oliver Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also...

     (Best Sound) – Nominated


BAFTA Awards
  • 2004: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Best Sound) – Nominated
  • 2002: Shrek (Best Sound) – Nominated
  • 2001: The Perfect Storm (Best Sound) – Nominated
  • 1993: JFK (Best Sound) – Won


Motion Picture Sound Editors - Golden Reel Award
Motion Picture Sound Editors
Founded in 1953, Motion Picture Sound Editors is an honorary society of motion picture sound editors. The society's goals are to educate others about and increase the recognition of the sound editors, show the artistic merit of the soundtracks, and improve the professional relationship of its...

  • 2010: Inglorious Basterds (Best Sound Editing – Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement) – Won
  • 2009: Wanted (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2007: World Trade Center (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2007: World Trade Center (Best Sound Editing – Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement) – Nominated
  • 2006: Memoirs of a Geisha (Best Sound Editing – Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement) – Won
  • 2006: Memoirs of a Geisha (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2005: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2005: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Best Sound Editing – Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement) – Nominated
  • 2005: Troy (Best Sound Editing in Foreign Features) – Nominated
  • 2004: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2003: We Were Soldiers (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2002: Shrek (Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature Film, Domestic and Foreign) – Nominated
  • 2001: The Perfect Storm (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley) – Nominated
  • 2000: For Love of the Game (Best Sound Editing – Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement) – Nominated
  • 1990: Born on the Fourth of July (Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects) – Won


Emmy Awards
  • 1985: Space (Outstanding Film Sound Editing for a Limited Series or a Special) – Nominated


Satellite Awards
Satellite Awards
The Satellite Awards are an annual award given by the International Press Academy. The awards were originally known as the Golden Satellite Awards.- Film :*Best Actor – Drama*Best Actor – Musical or Comedy*Best Actress – Drama...

  • 2004: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Best Sound) – Nominated

Entrepreneur

In addition to his film work, Stateman has been an active entrepreneur with a handful of sound related businesses. Along with partner Lon Bender, Stateman has hand in starting Liberty Livewire Audio, Signet Soundelux Studios, Vine Street Studios, Soundelux Media Labs, Modern Music and a leading sound effects library known as The Hollywood Edge.

A 2005 article in Mix magazine reported that Stateman was serving as the executive vice president of the Creative Sound Services group and as a supervising sound editor at Ascent Media Group.

Stateman, Bender and Hugh Waddell created VocalStream — a company posed to produce and distribute audio content read by professional voice talents and sent out via client-branded players, in 2007.

In 2008, Stateman and Bender launched Store-Stream, an Internet company created for end users where they can store their media libraries, create unique media players and send them out to friends or clients.

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