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Tom Fleischman began mixing feature films under the tutelage of New York rerecording mixer Richard (Dick) Vorisek in 1979. In 1981 Tom and Dick were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound for their work on Warren Beatty's Reds. Since then Tom has mixed nearly 200 features, documentaries, commercials, and television projects. He has developed long-term working relationships with many directors, earned 4 more Academy Award nominations for Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), and won for Hugo (2012). In television, Tom has won 5 Emmy Awards, 5 CAS Awards, and a BAFTA Award for sound mixing. Tom has been mixing on Stage B at Soundtrack Film and Television in New York since 2004.
James Buhler (University of Texas–Austin) – Theories of the Soundtrack (Oxford University Press) and Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History (Oxford University Press)
Jeff Smith (University of Wisconsin–Madison) – The Sounds of Commerce (Columbia University Press) and Film Criticism, the Cold War and the Blacklist (University of California Press)
Colleen Montgomery (Rowan University) – co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical and The Oxford Handbook of Media and Vocality (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Ron Sadoff (New York University) – The Moon and the Son and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound
Katherine Spring (Wilfrid Laurier University) – Saying It With Songs (Oxford University Press) and co-editor of Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited (Wayne State University Press)
Siu-Lan Tan (Kalamazoo College) – Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (Routledge) and The Psychology of Music in Multimedia (Oxford University Press)