Mark Berger (born May 14, 1943) is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound. He holds the Academy Award record for "perfect score" with 4 nominations and 4 wins. He is best known for his work on The Godfather: Part II (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Apocalypse Now (1979).[1] He has worked on more than 170 films since 1973.[2]
Background
Berger studied experimental psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.[3] He took part in the recording of some documentaries for radio about the opposition to Vietnam. Through this work, he got a job in the South focused on the civil rights of workers. He spend nine months in New Orleans making the film. When he returned to Berkeley, he started to realize that his filming experience was more interesting than his studies and he found a job recording sound for a documentary on the programs of the U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID]. He visited 11 countries in the course of 7 days. [2]
Career beginnings
After Berger worked on the documentary The Place for No Story, Walter Murch noticed him. Murch was an editor and sound mixer who had been working with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola.[2] He tried to recruit Berger for Coppola’s new film – The Conversation – but Berger was committed to a trip to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro. When Berger returned and got in touch with Murch he was offered the job of working on The Godfather, Part II. This was his first job in feature film.[2]
Teaching
Berger created, and has been teaching the “Film 140: The Sound of Film” course at UC Berkeley in their undergraduate program since the year 2000. [2]
Family
Berger is married to Berkeley City Council member Susan Wengraf. [2]
Selected filmography
References
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External links
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| 1951–1975 |
- Douglas Shearer (1951)
- London Films Sound Department (1952)
- John P. Livadary (1953)
- Leslie I. Carey (1954)
- Fred Hynes (1955)
- Carlton W. Faulkner (1956)
- George Groves (1957)
- Fred Hynes (1958)
- Franklin Milton (1959)
- Fred Hynes, Gordon E. Sawyer (1960)
- Gordon E. Sawyer, Fred Hynes (1961)
- John Cox (1962)
- Franklin Milton (1963)
- George Groves (1964)
- James Corcoran, Fred Hynes (1965)
- Franklin Milton (1966)
- Samuel Goldwyn Studio (1967)
- Shepperton Studios (1968)
- Jack Solomon, Murray Spivack (1969)
- Douglas Williams, Don Bassman (1970)
- Gordon McCallum, David Hildyard (1971)
- Robert Knudson, David Hildyard (1972)
- Robert Knudson, Chris Newman (1973)
- Ronald Pierce, Melvin Metcalfe Sr. (1974)
- Robert Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery, John Carter (1975)
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| 1976–2000 |
- Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Jim Webb (1976)
- Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball (1977)
- Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight (1978)
- Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nat Boxer (1979)
- Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton (1980)
- Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Roy Charman (1981)
- Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don Digirolamo, Gene Cantamessa (1982)
- Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Randy Thom, David MacMillan (1983)
- Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Todd Boekelheide, Chris Newman (1984)
- Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold, Peter Handford (1985)
- John Wilkinson, Richard Rogers, Charles Grenzbach, Simon Kaye (1986)
- Bill Rowe, Ivan Sharrock (1987)
- Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, Willie D. Burton (1988)
- Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg Rudloff, Elliot Tyson, Russell Williams, II (1989)
- Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton, Gregory H. Watkins, Russell Williams, II (1990)
- Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Lee Orloff (1991)
- Chris Jenkins, Doug Hemphill, Mark Smith, Simon Kaye (1992)
- Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy, Ron Judkins (1993)
- Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer, David MacMillan (1994)
- Rick Dior, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan, David MacMillan (1995)
- Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, Chris Newman (1996)
- Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano (1997)
- Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Ron Judkins (1998)
- John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell, David Lee (1999)
- Bob Beemer, Scott Millan, Ken Weston (2000)
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| 2001–present |
- Michael Minkler, Chris Munro, Myron Nettinga (2001)
- David Lee, Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella (2002)
- Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek, Michael Semanick (2003)
- Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer, Steve Cantamessa (2004)
- Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek (2005)
- Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton, Michael Minkler (2006)
- Kirk Francis, Scott Millan, David Parker (2007)
- Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Ian Tapp (2008)
- Paul N. J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett (2009)
- Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick (2010)
- Tom Fleischman, John Midgley (2011)
- Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Simon Hayes (2012)
- Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro (2013)
- Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley (2014)
- Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo (2015)
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