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John Roesch: MPSE 2013 Career Achievement Award

The first Foley artist to receive the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ (MPSE) Career Achievement Award, Foley artist John Roesch has contributed to over 400 movies in the last four decades, including — to name a very few — Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Back to the Future (1985), Unforgiven (1992), The Matrix (1999) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), the latter for which he received two MPSE Golden Reel Awards nominations as part of the film’s sound editing team. He was presented the award acknowledging his career accomplishments at the MPSE’s 60th annual Golden Reel Awards on February 17.
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Wise, Beyond His Years: Remembering Robert Wise

Robert Wise was always a hard worker–whether he was lugging film cans, syncing up reels of sound, looking for that one particular shot to make a scene play, staying on budget, getting the best performance from an actor or any of the myriad other jobs and positions he filled in his 72 years in the industry. […]