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Mark Ulano

Sound

Born June 12, 1954 · New York City, New York, USA

Also known as Mark Ulano, CAS · Mark F. Ulano

Biography

Mark Ulano (June 12, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American production sound mixer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for three in the same category. He has been recording sound for film professionally since 1976. His work on Titanic won him an Academy Award for Sound Mixing and the Cinema Audio Society Award for Best Sound Mixing for a Feature Film. He was also Oscar-nominated for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Inglorious Basterds, and Ad Astra. Most recently, he served as production sound mixer for Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese. His other credits include The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained, Kill Bill Vols. I & 2, Jackie Brown, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Cowboys & Aliens, The Master, Wedding Crashers and over one hundred other films. He has had a 29-year collaboration with Quentin Tarantino. Ulano has served five terms as president of IATSE Local 695 (the film sound union) and also served five terms on the executive committee of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Sound Branch. He has sat ten terms as a board member for the Cinema Audio Society and served as president of that organization for two terms. He is also in the final stages of completing a comprehensive text on the work of Production Sound Mixing. He has authored over 50 articles, interviews, and reviews related to Production Sound Mixing. He has frequently been a guest speaker at sound symposiums internationally, including The Directors Guild of America, the Rycote World Sound Symposium, the Norwegian Bjoksjo Sound Symposium, the Beijing Film Academy, Digital Video Expo, AES, and Cinema Audio Society. He has also directed documentaries, including I Love What I Do and Julianna: A Portrait. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Ulano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Academy AwardBest Sound · 1998
  • Academy AwardBest Sound · 2010 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Sound · 1998 · nominated

Filmography47 titles

Django Unchained

2012as Gabby the Banker (uncredited)

Inglourious Basterds

2009Production Sound Mixer

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

2004Production Sound Mixer

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

2003Production Sound Mixer

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

2004Production Sound Mixer

Titanic

1997Sound Mixer

The Hateful Eight

2015Production Sound Mixer, Sound Designer

Iron Man

2008Production Sound Mixer

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023Production Sound Mixer

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019Production Sound Mixer

Jackie Brown

1997Production Sound Mixer

The Judge

2014Production Sound Mixer

The Master

2012Sound mixer

From Dusk Till Dawn

1996Production Sound Mixer

Iron Man 2

2010Production Sound Mixer

Rocky Balboa

2006Production Sound Mixer

Desperado

1995Production Sound Mixer

Super 8

2011Sound Mixer

State of Play

2009Production Sound Mixer

Death Proof

2007Production Sound Mixer

The Majestic

2001Production Sound Mixer

Disturbia

2007Production Sound Mixer

Pet Sematary

1989Production Sound Mixer

Wedding Crashers

2005Sound Mixer

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

2006Production Sound Mixer

Zathura: A Space Adventure

2005Production Sound Mixer

The Hot Chick

2002Production Sound Mixer

Imaginary Crimes

1994Sound Mixer

Slums of Beverly Hills

1998Sound Recordist

Waterworld

1995Additional Production Sound Mixer

Ad Astra

2019Production Sound Mixer

Terminator Salvation

2009Production Sound Mixer

How to Murder a Millionaire

1990Sound Mixer

Vamp

1986Sound Mixer

Once Bitten

1985Sound Mixer

The Slumber Party Massacre

1982Production Sound Mixer, Sound Mixer

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

1985Production Sound Mixer, Sound Mixer

Forbidden World

1982Production Sound Mixer

Lay the Favorite

2012Sound Mixer

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

1986Sound Mixer

The Pest

1997Sound Mixer

The Cartier Affair

1984Sound Mixer

The Lost Empire

1984Sound Mixer

The Parade

1984Sound Mixer

Checking Out

1988Sound Mixer

Only in Theaters

2022as Self

Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry

2024as self