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Nicolas Becker is a French composer and sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Sound of Metal. Selected filmography. Sound of Metal (2020, co-won with Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh) Dahomey (2024, with Corneille Houssou and Cyril Holtz)
The French foley artist, sound designer, and composer has never been one to turn down a challenge. He's worked on Oscar-winning films such as Gravity (2013), Ex Machina (2014), and Arrival (2016), and in 2021, won his own Oscar for Best Sound with Sound of Metal, about a heavy-metal drummer who suddenly loses his hearing. (Becker shared the ...
Emmanuel Bacquet: Nicolas Becker, you are an internationally recognised sound creator, contributing to the scores of many feature films, from La Haine to Brotherhood of the Wolf, including Harry Potter, Gravity, Thomas Vinterberg's Kursk and very recently Sound of Metal, whether as foley artist or, more broadly, supervising sound designer.
Jan 7, 2021 · What does the world feel like to someone with hearing loss? And what does it sound like? On Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal, supervising sound editor Nicolas Becker sought to answer these...
- Matt Grobar
- From Foley to Sound Design
- Making 'Sound of Metal'
- What Does Outer Space Sound like?
I loved doing Foley, but of course, I was a very curious guy, so I was always asking. I met a guy at this time who was a musician, and he was starting to work with samplers. I started to think: It would be amazing to be able to bring this technology without the postproduction, because now we can only record on tape and create basic effects. So we f...
Darius [Marder] asked me to do this film because he had seen the work that I had done with Gravityand the work that I was doing for Andrea Arnold, who is a great British director. The way we work with Andrea, it’s like everything is between fiction and documentary: lots of non-actors, everything is rewritten every day. There is huge interaction. Th...
You have never been in space but, actually … It’s like a fetus’s world. Like people in the Big Blue, they are like babies floating. The director [of Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón] wanted to give that feeling. He said, “I don’t want to have the usual sound we use or space. I would like something much more simple,” so we decided to record all the sounds th...
Dec 28, 2023 · Nicolas Becker is a French composer and sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Sound of Metal.
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Nicolas Becker stands as a multifaceted virtuoso in the world of cinematic sound, donning the roles of sound designer, foley artist, and composer. His auditory craftsmanship is highly sought-after on the global film stage, with each project bearing the hallmark of his unique sonic signature.
