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Randy Thom

Director of Sound Design, Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer, Re-recording Mixer

Projects

  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • The Wild Robot
  • Here
  • Ultraman: Rising
  • Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie
  • Pinocchio
  • Wendell & Wild
  • Vivo
  • The Witches
  • The Croods: A New Age
  • The Midnight Sky
  • Spies in Disguise
  • How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
  • Welcome to Marwen
  • Ferdinand
  • Despicable Me 3
  • Carne y Arena
  • Allied
  • The Revenant
  • Ice Age: Collision Course
  • The Walk
  • Crimson Peak
  • The Peanuts Movie
  • Home
  • How to Train Your Dragon 2
  • Rio 2
  • Epic
  • The Croods
  • Flight
  • The Lorax
  • Rio
  • Mars Needs Moms
  • The Last Airbender
  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • Percy Jackson and the Olympian: The Lightning Thief
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
  • Coraline
  • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
  • Bolt
  • Horton Hears a Who!
  • Standard Operating Procedure
  • Beowulf
  • Enchanted
  • Bee Movie
  • The Simpsons Movie
  • Ratatouille
  • Eragon
  • Monster House
  • Over the Hedge
  • Ice Age: The Meltdown
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • War of the Worlds
  • The Incredibles
  • The Polar Express
  • Shrek 2
  • Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
  • Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Cradle of Life
  • Darkness Falls
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Windtalkers
  • Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
  • Osmosis Jones
  • Cast Away
  • What Lies Beneath
  • Reindeer Games
  • Bicentennial Man
  • The Iron Giant
  • Snow Falling On Cedars
  • Arlington Road
  • Stepmom
  • Contact
  • Mimic
  • Chain Reaction
  • Mars Attacks!
  • The Frighteners
  • Species
  • Disclosure
  • Forrest Gump
  • The Saint of Fort Washington
  • A Brief History of Time
  • Backdraft
  • Wild at Heart
  • Always
  • Romero
  • Tucker: The Man and His Dream
  • Colors
  • Gardens of Stone
  • Spaceballs
  • Latino
  • Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets, IMAX
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  • Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
  • Koyaainsqatsi
  • Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
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Awards

  • MPSE Golden Reel Award - The Wild Robot
    The Wild Robot
    2024
  • CAS Award
    The Wild Robot
    2024
  • Academy Award Nomination
    The Wild Robot
    2024
  • Academy Award Nomination
    The Revenant
    2016
  • BAFTA
    The Revenant
    2015
  • C. A. S. Award
    The Revenant
    2016
  • Academy Award Nomination
    Ratatouille
    2008
  • Academy Award Nomination
    Ratatouille
    2008
  • MPSE Golden Reel Award
    Randy Thom MPSE Career Achievement Award
    2014
  • Academy Award
    The Incredibles
    2005
  • Academy Award Nomination
    The Incredibles
    2005
  • Academy Award Nomination
    The Polar Express
    2005
  • Academy Award Nomination
    The Polar Express
    2005
  • Academy Award Nomination
    Cast Away
    2001
  • Academy Award Nomination
    Contact
    1998
  • Academy Award Nomination
    Forrest Gump
    1995
  • Academy Award Nomination
    Forrest Gump
    1995
  • Academy Award Nomination
    Backdraft
    1992
  • BAFTA Nomination
    Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
    1984
  • BAFTA Nomination
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    2003
  • BAFTA Nomination
    Wild at Heart
    1991
  • C.A.S Award
    Forrest Gump
    1995
  • Golden Reel Award
    Epic
    2014
  • Golden Reel Award
    How to Train Your Dragon
    2011
  • Golden Reel Award
    Ratatouille
    2008
  • Golden Reel Award
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    2006
  • Golden Reel Award
    The Incredibles
    2005
  • Golden Reel Award
    The Iron Giant
    2000
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Randy's Story

Randy Thom is Director of Sound Design at Skywalker Sound, but still spends most of his time working on films. His credits include: Apocalypse Now, Return of the Jedi, Never Cry Wolf, Wild at Heart, Forrest Gump, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Thin Blue Line, War of the Worlds, Coraline, How To Train Your Dragon, Ghost in the Shell, and Ratatouille. He has worked with a diverse list of directors, including Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, David Lynch, Guillermo del Toro, John Waters, Errol Morris, Henry Selick, Peter Jackson, Brad Bird, and Chris Wedge.  Randy’s essay “Designing A Movie For Sound” is used in many universities.

 

Randy Thom has received two Academy Awards for his work on The Right Stuff and The Incredibles. His win for The Incredibles is a unique achievement, as it stands as the only animated film to ever win an Oscar for Sound. He has also been honored with sixteen Oscar nominations, as well as an Emmy and a Grammy nomination. His most recent Oscar nomination came this year for the film The Wild Robot.

 

Randy was honored with the C.A.S. Career Achievement Award in 2010 and the MPSE Career Achievement Award in 2014.