Hear from the Professionals

What’s it like to work at the forefront of your field with Dolby^® film sound technology? Here’s what top directors and sound engineers have to say.

Christopher Boyes Christopher Boyes is arguably the most successful sound designer and mixer at work in America today. Based at Skywalker Ranch in Northern California, he has worked on a host of major motion pictures during the two decades since he graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in cinema. Boyes has won four Academy Awards® and was nominated in 2007 for a further two for his work on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. More
Eddy Joseph Eddy Joseph is the Creative Director of Soundelux London and, as supervising sound editor, has worked on many films, including United 93, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, King Arthur, Cold Mountain, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Most recently he has been overseeing the sound editing on Bond's latest outing, Casino Royale. More

Tom Tykwer (left)

Tom Tykwer Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) has taken almost 20 years to bring to the screen, ever since Patrick Süskind’s novel became an international bestseller in the 1980s, and it marks Tom Tykwer’s most expensive and ambitious project to date. Peter Cowie talks with Tykwer about his views on sound for film. More

Roland Emmerich German-born Roland Emmerich is the most successful European director at work in Hollywood today. His epic sci-fi movies have taken in well over a billion dollars at the box office internationally and have set benchmark standards for sound and special effects. Emmerich’s blockbusters, which he often writes and produces as well as directs, include Godzilla, The Patriot, and The Day After Tomorrow. More

Walter Salles (left)

Walter Salles Brazilian cinema flowered intensely during the 1960s, but relapsed into comparative obscurity until 1999, when Walter Salles’s poignant and compelling Central Station won awards around the world. Salles had already caught the eye of film buffs at the Sundance Festival with his earlier film, Foreign Land (1996), and he pursued his career with Behind the Sun (2001) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). Peter Cowie talks to Walter Salles about the importance of sound in his films. More

Walter Murch If any one name is synonymous with excellence in sound design, then it must be Walter Murch. A two-time Academy Award® winner for Apocalypse Now and The English Patient, he has also received a host of awards for his work as a film editor. More

	Sir Alan Parker In three decades of moviemaking, Sir Alan Parker has made an indelible mark both in Hollywood and his native Britain as a director of thoughtful, provocative, and invariably entertaining films. More