ABOUT THE AUTHOR
photo by Frank Siteman (franksiteman.com)
David Stone is a sound editor, a veteran of roughly 100 Hollywood feature films and many television series.
He worked as a sound editor on Gremlins, Top Gun, Die Hard, Speed, and Ocean's 11. He was a Supervising Sound Editor for projects as varied as Predator, Edward Scissorhands, Beauty and the Beast, Batman Returns, City Slickers 2, and Dolores Claiborne. He has collected Golden Reel awards for Best Sound Editing five times and won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing, for his supervising work on Bram Stoker's Dracula.
A Cornell University graduate in Fine Arts, he is a retired professor and former Chair in the Sound Design department at Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Stone is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Sound Branch), and a Retired Lifetime Member of Local 700, Motion Picture Editors’ Guild. Professional memberships in the past have included
Motion Picture Sound Editors (long-time member and past Vice-President), Cinema Audio Society (past affiliate member), and The Animation Guild (formerly Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists)
Winner of the 1992 Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing
Author of Hollywood Sound Design and Moviesound Newsletter: A Case Study of The End of the Analog Age, published by Routledge.
DS speaking by giant doorstop at an event we organized and hosted, The Sound Behind The Image III: Real Horrorshow - Halloween, 2009, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles.
Abington Hall of Fame: Abington High School, Abington, PA
Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Golden Reel awards (5 in all), for sound editing on Top Gun, Speed, and Die Hard, and for Supervising Sound on Beauty and the Beast and Predator, along with many past nominations.
Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Luis Obispo Jewish Film Festival, San Luis Obispo, CA, January, 2015.
Editor, Moviesound Newsletter, 1989-1994
Presentation and panel – Iowa University, 2000 (Motion Picture Sound scholarship and practitioners’ conference)
Presentation and panel – Business College Nowy Sanç, Poland 2005 (International conference on Games development and education)
Presentation and panel – “Now Hear This II, An Evening on Animation Sound” - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Los Angeles, August 2008
Organizer, researcher and host, presentations and pane“Now Hear This III, Real Horrorshow” - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Los Angeles, Halloween, 2009
Book illustrator, and editor of textbook’s DVD documentary short “Watch Yer Ears!” book, The Foley Grail, by Vanessa T. Ament, (pub. by Focal Press, Feb. 2009)
Book illustrator, standing illustrations for 1st ed. (2009) and new illustrations for 2nd and 3rd ed. Book (in 2020), The Foley Grail, 2nd ed. by Vanessa T. Ament, (pub. by Focal Press, 2014)
Prof. Stone contributed as a Savannah Film Festival presenter and discussion leader, for the debut of Don’t Go in the Woods, hosting Q&A with the director, actor Vincent D’Onofrio (2010)
Prof. Stone has organized and hosted presentations at SCAD regarding advances in film and sound restoration methodologies by Robert Heiber, of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and V.P. of Deluxe Media
Prof. Stone presented a paper (A Knife in the Ear: Sound Design in the Films of Roman Polanski) by invitation at the SECAC Conference. November, 2011
Prof. Stone presented a paper, New Criteria for Amalgamated Soundtrack Aesthetics, and moderated a panel, The Soundtrack; Theory and Practice at a University Film and Video Association conference at Ball State University.
David Stone and Tom McCarthy, Jr. presented Academy Award by actor Jon Lovitz
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Greeting John Post, a.k.a.
“the Godfather of Foley”
USE THE LITTLE ARROWS TO THE LEFT AND RIGHT TO VIEW THE GALLERY BELOW
Hollywood Sound Design and Moviesound Newsletter: A Case Study of the End of the Analog Age
Prof. Stone’s book was included on the bookshelves of The Motion Picture Editors’ Guild Archive's Legacy Collection, on display at the Motion Picture Editors' Guild (local 700, IATSE) office in Hollywood.
This space is where the author drops his dubious attempts to focus on teaching about the sound in old movies and indulges in random observations and expressions of opinion. As we used to print in the old Moviesound Newsletter, “Eschew Obfuscation!” Feedback from readers via email is always welcome!
