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Richard Portman
In 1981, Richard formed his own independent sound design company, Portomatic Sound Effects, Inc. in 1982, he was hired by Walt Disney Productions to supervise sound re-recording on their 360-degree film presentations for the International Pavilion in EPCOT, and remained with them through 1987. From 1989 to 1994, he was on the staff of Todd A-O, traveling between their California and New York facilities, the only mixer at that time on their staff to do so. In 1978 Richard won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film The Deer Hunter and he has won the British Academy Award for Best Sound on Robert Altman's Nashville . He has received eleven Academy Award nominations for sound work in feature films, including The Godfather, Young Frankenstein, Coal Miner's Daughter and On Golden Pond. Richard Portman links: |