January’s Featured Sound Designer: Tim Walston

New year, new month, and of course… new guest: Tim Walston, a fantastic person and very talented sound designer/editor who will share lots of cool things with us during this month.

Bio

Tim Walston was born in Northridge, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles, and spent most of his early years unknowingly growing up very close to major Hollywood film studios. His twin passions growing up were movies and music. His education and early job focused on music, until one of life’s curveballs led him to investigate a career in post production sound.

He started as an intern at EFX Systems in Burbank. His first feature credit was “Sub Down”. Lucky to work with a talented and generous group he subsequently worked on films like “Slums of Beverly Hills”, “Clay Pigeons” and “The Mod Squad”.

In late 1999 he moved to SoundStorm, and joined the union. As staff sound designer he worked on many action/adventure titles including “The Fast and the Furious”, “xXx”, “The Sum of All Fears”, “Star Trek: Nemesis”, “Stealth” and the restoration/augmentation of the original 1978 “Superman” in 2000.

He moved to his current home base at Soundelux in 2004. There, his creative opportunities have ranged from action films to comedies, creature features to science fiction, from animation to dramas. He recently contributed sound for a few scenes in “The Green Hornet”, and looks forward to each new project.

Awards and Nominations

• MPSE Golden Reel Nomination for Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film 2009 – Star Trek
• MPSE Golden Reel Award for Special Venue Sound Designer 2008 – Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (IMAX)
• MPSE Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing for a Special Venue Film 2003 – Top Speed (IMAX)
• MPSE Golden Reel Nomination for Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film 2002 – XXX
• MPSE Golden Reel Nomination for Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film 2001 – The Fast and The Furious
• MPSE Golden Reel Nomination for Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley for Feature Film 1998 – Blade

Selected Work

• Devil (2010) – Sound designer
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) – Sound effects editor
• Astro Boy (2009) – Sound designer
• Star Trek (2009) – Sound designer
• Crank: High Voltage (2009) – Sound designer
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) – Sound designer
• Snakes On a Plane (2006) – Sound designer
• Poseidon (2006) – Sound editor
• Stealth (2005) – Sound designer
• Miracle (2004) – Sound effects editor
• Holes (2003) – Sound designer
• Phone Booth (2002) – Sound designer
• xXx (2002) – Sound designer
• The Sum of All Fears (2002) – Sound designer
• The Fast and The Furious (2001) – Sound designer
• Clay Pigeons (1998) – Sound designer, Supervising sound editor

Tim Walston at IMDB