Mike Hopkins (sound editor)

New Zealand sound editor (1959–2012)

Mike Hopkins
Born	Michael Alexander Hopkins (1959-08-12)12 August 1959 Greytown, Wellington, New Zealand
Died	30 December 2012(2012-12-30) (aged 53) near Greytown, Wellington, New Zealand
Occupation	Sound editor
Awards	Academy Award for Best Sound Editing (2002 & 2005)

Michael Alexander Hopkins (12 August 1959 – 30 December 2012) was a New Zealand sound editor. Hopkins and American Ethan Van der Ryn shared two Academy Awards for best sound editing on the films The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and King Kong. The pair were also nominated for their work on the 2007 film Transformers.

Hopkins died on 30 December 2012 after the raft he was in capsized in a flash flood on the Waiohine River, near his hometown of Greytown.

References

"Wairarapa Police name Waiohine River victim". New Zealand Police. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
"Oscar winner drowns in rafting accident". Television New Zealand. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
"Oscar-winning sound editor drowns". Fairfax Media (via Stuff.co.nz). 31 December 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.

External links

Mike Hopkins at IMDb

v t e Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
Sound Effects 1963–1967	Walter Elliott - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Norman Wanstall - Goldfinger (1964) Treg Brown - The Great Race (1965) Gordon Daniel - Grand Prix (1966) John Poyner - The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Sound Effects Editing 1982–1999	Charles L. Campbell and Ben Burtt - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Jay Boekelheide - The Right Stuff (1983) Kay Rose - The River (1984) Charles L. Campbell and Robert Rutledge - Back to the Future (1985) Don Sharpe - Aliens (1986) Stephen Hunter Flick and John Pospisil - RoboCop (1987) Charles L. Campbell and Louis Edemann - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Cecelia Hall and George Watters II - The Hunt for Red October (1990) Gary Rydstrom and Gloria Borders - Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Tom McCarthy and David E. Stone - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns - Jurassic Park (1993) Stephen Hunter Flick - Speed (1994) Lon Bender and Per Hallberg - Braveheart (1995) Bruce Stambler - The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) Tom Bellfort and Christopher Boyes - Titanic (1997) Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns - Saving Private Ryan (1998) Dane Davis - The Matrix (1999)
Sound Editing 2000–2019	Jon Johnson - U-571 (2000) George Watters II and Christopher Boyes - Pearl Harbor (2001) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Richard King - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Michael Silvers and Randy Thom - The Incredibles (2004) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn - King Kong (2005) Bub Asman and Alan Robert Murray - Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg - The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) Richard King - The Dark Knight (2008) Paul N. J. Ottosson - The Hurt Locker (2009) Richard King - Inception (2010) Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton - Hugo (2011) Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers - Skyfall / Paul N. J. Ottosson - Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Glenn Freemantle - Gravity (2013) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman - American Sniper (2014) Mark Mangini and David White - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sylvain Bellemare - Arrival (2016) Richard King and Alex Gibson - Dunkirk (2017) John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone - Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Donald Sylvester - Ford v Ferrari (2019)

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