Retired Sound Editor Kimberly Harris died on May 3 in Albuquerque New Mexico, according to her sister and her niece. She was 66. Harris had over 100 sound editing credits and won an Emmy for her work on 61*. She also won four awards for her work on Hacksaw Ridge. Her family will be holding a private […]
Joel Bender, who co-wrote and co-directed the 2014 documentary The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh and served as a film editor on The Amazing Race, has died. He was 72. Bender died in his sleep April 24 of natural causes in Los Angeles […]
Diane Adler, the pioneering film editor who spent five seasons on The Rockford Files and cut other TV series including Kojak, Spenser: For Hire and Riptide, has died. She was 97. Adler died Thursday in Los Angeles, her family announced. […]
Larry McMurtry, who won an Oscar for penning Brokeback Mountain, earned a nomination for The Last Picture Show and authored books that spawned Emmy winner Lonesome Dove and Best Picture Oscar winner Terms of Endearment […]
When We Were Kings received special jury recognition at Sundance en route to winning the best documentary Oscar and a Spirit Award. The film tells the story of how Muhammad Ali reclaimed the heavyweight title in Kinshasa, Zaire, with […]
Michael Wolf Snyder, the production sound mixer for a number of film titles, including Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland has died by suicide, according to a Facebook post. The post explained Snyder’s death in “the hope that it could help others” […]
Alan Robert Murray, the supervising sound editor and decades-long collaborator with Clint Eastwood who earned Oscars for his work on the director’s American Sniper and Letters to Iwo Jima, died Wednesday, a source told The Hollywood Reporter. […]
Richard Bracken, a four-time Emmy-nominated film editor with credits including Ironside, Columbo, Rich Man, Poor Man and three Wes Craven movies, has died. He was 90. Bracken died Thursday of kidney failure in Chatsworth, California […]
President Biden on Wednesday honored the late John Sweeney, former leader of the AFL-CIO labor union, calling him “a giant of the American labor movement, and a good man.” Sweeney died Monday at the age of 86. “I had the honor and privilege of working closely with John Sweeney during his leadership of […]
John J. Sweeney, a New York union researcher who climbed to the pinnacle of the American labor movement in the 1990s, leading the AFL-CIO for 14 years through an era of fading union membership but rising political influence, died on […]
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