John P. Livadary

John P. Livadary
John P. Livadary
Born	May 20, 1896; Istanbul, Turkey
Died	April 7, 1987 (aged 90); Newport Beach, California, United States
Occupation	Sound engineer
Years active	1929-1960

John Paul Livadary (born 20 May 1896, Istanbul, Turkey, died 7 April 1987, Newport Beach, California, USA ) was a sound designer.

He started work in 1928 at Columbia Pictures and won the Academy Award for Best Sound three times, in a career that spanned 30 years. The first Oscar was for One Night of Love (1934),^[1] the second for The Jolson Story (1946)^[2] and the third for From Here to Eternity (1953).^[3]^[4]

Filmography

Broadway Scandals (1929)
The Song of Love (1929)
Flight (1929)
Acquitted (1929)
The Broadway Hoofer (1929)
Wall Street (1929)
Around the Corner (1930)
Soldiers and Women (1930)
Hell's Island (1930)
Ladies Must Play (1930)
Shadow Ranch (1930)
Hurricane (1930)
Men Without Law (1930)
Dirigible (1931)
Love Me Forever (1935)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Too Many Husbands (1940)
The Brave Bulls (1951)
The Law vs. Billy the Kid (1954)
Pushover (1954)
Human Desire (1954)
The Black Dakotas (1954)
Three Hours to Kill (1954)
Cannibal Attack (1954)
Phffft! (1954)
The Violent Men (1955)
Masterson of Kansas (1955)
The Bamboo Prison (1955)
Ten Wanted Men (1955)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
Women's Prison (1955)
Pirates of Tripoli (1955)
Wyoming Renegades (1955)
Three for the Show (1955)
Cell 2455, Death Row (1955)
Seminole Uprising (1955)

Tight Spot (1955)
5 Against the House (1955)
Bring Your Smile Along (1955)
The Man from Laramie (1955)
My Sister Eileen (1955)
Count Three and Pray (1955)
Queen Bee (1955)
A Lawless Street (1955)
Picnic (1955)
The Last Frontier (1956)
Battle Stations (1956)
Hot Blood (1956)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Jubal (1956)
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
He Laughed Last (1956)
Storm Center (1956)
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Reprisal! (1956)
You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
Full of Life (1957)
Nightfall (1957)
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)
The Garment Jungle (1957)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Jeanne Eagels (1957)
The Brothers Rico (1957)
Decision at Sundown (1957)
Operation Mad Ball (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
Going Steady (1958)
Cowboy (1958)
Screaming Mimi (1958)
The Case Against Brooklyn (1958)

The Lineup (1958)
Life Begins at 17 (1958)
Gunman's Walk (1958)
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
Ghost of the China Sea (1958)
Apache Territory (1958)
Me and the Colonel (1958)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Tarawa Beachhead (1958)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Bell, Book and Candle (1959)
Senior Prom (1959)
Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Gunmen from Laredo (1959)
Forbidden Island (1959)
Juke Box Rhythm (1959)
Gidget (1959)
Hey Boy! Hey Girl! (1959)
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)
Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959)
The Crimson Kimono (1959)
The Tingler (1959)
They Came to Cordura (1959)
Battle of the Coral Sea (1959)
The Last Angry Man (1959)
The Flying Fontaines (1959)
Edge of Eternity (1959)
1001 Arabian Nights (1959)
Comanche Station (1960)
The Mountain Road (1960)

References

^ "The 7th Academy Awards (1935) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
^ "The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
^ "The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
^ Selise Eiseman (March–April 2006). "Pushing the Envelope..." Editors Guild Magazine. 27 (2). Retrieved 2009-06-13.

External links

John P. Livadary at IMDb

[Oscars1935-1] "The 7th Academy Awards (1935) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-07.

[Oscars1947-2] "The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19.

[Oscars1954-3] "The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-20.

[4] Selise Eiseman (March–April 2006). "Pushing the Envelope..." Editors Guild Magazine. 27 (2). Retrieved 2009-06-13.

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v t e Academy Award for Best Sound
1929–1950	Douglas Shearer (1929/30) Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department (1930/31) Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department (1931/32) Franklin Hansen (1932/33) John P. Livadary (1934) Douglas Shearer (1935) Douglas Shearer (1936) Thomas T. Moulton (1937) Thomas T. Moulton (1938) Bernard B. Brown (1939) Douglas Shearer (1940) Jack Whitney (1941) Nathan Levinson (1942) Stephen Dunn (1943) Edmund H. Hansen (1944) Stephen Dunn (1945) John P. Livadary (1946) Gordon E. Sawyer (1947) Thomas T. Moulton (1948) Thomas T. Moulton (1949) Thomas T. Moulton (1950)
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 and Gordon E. Sawyer (1960) Gordon E. Sawyer and Fred Hynes (1961) John Cox (1962) Franklin Milton (1963) George Groves (1964) James Corcoran and Fred Hynes (1965) Franklin Milton (1966) Samuel Goldwyn Studio (1967) Shepperton Studios (1968) Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack (1969) Douglas Williams and Don Bassman (1970) Gordon McCallum and David Hildyard (1971) Robert Knudson and David Hildyard (1972) Robert Knudson and Chris Newman (1973) Ronald Pierce and Melvin Metcalfe Sr. (1974) Robert Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery, and John Carter (1975)
1976–2000	Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, and Jim Webb (1976) Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, and Derek Ball (1977) Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, and Darin Knight (1978) Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, and Nat Boxer (1979) Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, and Peter Sutton (1980) Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, and Roy Charman (1981) Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don Digirolamo, and Gene Cantamessa (1982) Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Randy Thom, and David MacMillan (1983) Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Todd Boekelheide, and Chris Newman (1984) Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold, and Peter Handford (1985) John Wilkinson, Richard Rogers, Charles Grenzbach, and Simon Kaye (1986) Bill Rowe and Ivan Sharrock (1987) Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, and Willie D. Burton (1988) Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg Rudloff, Elliot Tyson, and Russell Williams II (1989) Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton, Gregory H. Watkins, and Russell Williams II (1990) Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, and Lee Orloff (1991) Chris Jenkins, Doug Hemphill, Mark Smith, and Simon Kaye (1992) Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy, and Ron Judkins (1993) Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer, and David MacMillan (1994) Rick Dior, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan, and David MacMillan (1995) Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, and Chris Newman (1996) Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, and Mark Ulano (1997) Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, and Ron Judkins (1998) John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell, and David Lee (1999) Bob Beemer, Scott Millan, and Ken Weston (2000)
2001–present	Michael Minkler, Chris Munro, and Myron Nettinga (2001) David Lee, Michael Minkler, and Dominick Tavella (2002) Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek, and Michael Semanick (2003) Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer, and Steve Cantamessa (2004) Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, and Hammond Peek (2005) Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton, and Michael Minkler (2006) Kirk Francis, Scott Millan, and David Parker (2007) Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, and Ian Tapp (2008) Paul N. J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett (2009) Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, and Ed Novick (2010) Tom Fleischman and John Midgley (2011) Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, and 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) Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, and Peter Grace (2016) Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, and Gary Rizzo (2017) Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin, and John Casali (2018) Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson (2019) Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, and Michelle Couttolenc (2020) Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, and Ron Bartlett (2021) Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor (2022) Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn (2023)