Benjamin Burtt, Jr.

Birth Name:Benjamin Pickering Burtt Jr.
Nickname:Ben Burtt Jr.
Alt Names: Ben Burt
B. P. Burtt, Jr.
Ben Burtt
Ben Burtt, jr.
Born:July 12, 1948
Birth Place:Jamesville, New York
Age Today:77 years and 310 days
Height:5’ 10” (1.78 m)
More Info:Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Academy Award Nominations (Winner marker =  winner  ):
1977
Winner markerSpecial Achievement Award. To Benjamin Burtt, Jr. for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices featured in Star Wars.
1981
Winner markerSpecial Achievement Award (Sound Effects Editing). Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; Paramount. Ben Burtt and Richard L. Anderson.
1982
Winner markerSound Effects Editing. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Charles L. Campbell and Ben Burtt.
1983
Sound. Return of the Jedi, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom and Tony Dawe.
1983
Sound Effects Editing. Return of the Jedi, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Ben Burtt.
1988
Sound Effects Editing. Willow, Lucasfilm Production in association with Imagine Entertainment; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns.
1989
Sound. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; Paramount. Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy and Tony Dawe.
1989
Winner markerSound Effects Editing. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; Paramount. Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns.
1996
Documentary (Short Subject). Special Effects, NOVA/WGBH Boston Production. Susanne Simpson and Ben Burtt.
1999
Sound Effects Editing. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century Fox. Ben Burtt and Tom Bellfort.
2008
Sound Editing. WALL-E, Pixar Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney. Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood.
2008
Sound Mixing. WALL-E, Pixar Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney. Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt.

12 Nominations