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William B. Kaplan

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William B. Kaplan
Occupation	Sound engineer
Years active	1972-present

William B. Kaplan is an American sound engineer. He has over 125 credits to his name and has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.

Selected filmography[edit]

Back to the Future (1985)^[1]
Top Gun (1986)^[2]
Forrest Gump (1994)^[3]
Crimson Tide (1995)^[4]
Contact (1997)^[5]
Cast Away (2000)^[6]
The Polar Express (2004)^[7]

Awards[edit]

In 2020, Kaplan was honored by the Cinema Audio Society with its highest accolade, a Career Achievement Award.^[8]

Kaplan previously won the Cinema Audio Society Award for his work on "Forrest Gump" and received three other CAS nominations for his work on "Crimson Tide (film), "Cast Away" and "The Contact (1963 film)."^[9]

References[edit]

^ "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 16 October 2011.

^ "The 59th Academy Awards (1987) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 16 October 2011.

^ "The 67th Academy Awards (1995) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 23 October 2011.

^ "The 68th Academy Awards (1996) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 23 October 2011.

^ "The 70th Academy Awards (1998) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 19 November 2011.

^ "The 73rd Academy Awards (2001) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 19 November 2011.

^ "The 77th Academy Awards (2005) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 20 November 2011.

^ "Sound Mixer William B. Kaplan Honored With Cinema Audio Society Career Achievement Award". variety.com. 28 September 2020.

^ "Career Achievement Insights". Cinema Audio Society. 28 February 2023.

External links[edit]

William B. KaplanatIMDb

v t e Satellite Award for Best Sound
1990s	Gary Alper, Skip Lievsay, and Frank Morrone (1999)
2000s	Frank E. Eulner (2000) Christopher Boyes, Gethin Creagh, Hammond Peek, and Michael Semanick (2001) Larry Blake (2002) Doug Hemphill, Richard King, Paul Massey, and Art Rochester (2003) Elliott Koretz, Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga, and Lee Orloff (2004) Paul Brincat, Ben Burtt, Tom Myers, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, and Matthew Wood (2005) Bob Beemer, Willie D. Burton, Michael Minkler, and Richard E. Yawn (2006) Kirk Francis, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers, Scott Millan, and David Parker (2007) Lora Hirschberg, Richard King, and Gary Rizzo (2008) Jeffrey J. Haboush, Michael Keller, Rick Kline, Michael McGee, and Paul N. J. Ottosson (2009)
2010s	Beau Borders, William B. Kaplan, Kevin O'Connell, and Mark Stoeckinger (2010) Lon Bender, Robert Eber, Victor Ray Ennis, Robert Fernandez, and Dave Paterson (2011) Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Lee Walpole, and John Warhurst (2012) Niv Adiri, Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, and Chris Munro (2013) Thomas Curley, Craig Mann, and Ben Wilkins (2014) Paul Massey, Mac Ruth, Oliver Tarney, and Mark Taylor (2015) Peter Grace, Robert Mackenzie, Kevin O'Connell, and Andy Wright (2016) Alex Gibson, Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary Rizzo, and Mark Weingarten (2017) Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor, and Ethan Van der Ryn (2018) David Giammarco, Paul Massey, Steven A. Morrow, and Donald Sylvester (2019)
2020s	Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés, Michelle Couttolenc, and Carolina Santana (2020) Paul Hsu and Tod A. Maitland (2021) Al Nelson, James Mather, Mark Weingarten, and Bjorn Schroeder (2022) Richard King, Steven A. Morrow, Tom Ozanich, Jason Ruder, and Dean A. Zupancic (2023)

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