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Simon Hayes is a British production sound mixer. Hayes won an Academy Award for Best Sound at the 85th Academy Awards for his work on Les Misérables. He won a BAFTA for Best Sound for the same film. In 2022, the 94th Academy Awards included Hayes as a nominee for Best Sound Mixing for his work on No Time to Die.

Career

After starting work as a runner for a Commercials production company when he was 16 years old, Simon Hayes moved into the sound department as an assistant and then boom operator, before mixing his first feature film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels at the age of 27. Hayes was the production sound mixer for the 2012 epic period musical film Les Misérables, for which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him the Oscar for Best Sound Mixing at the 85th Academy Awards, alongside Andy Nelson and Mark Paterson. The director Tom Hooper required all singing in the film to be recorded live, which was widely deemed to be impracticable. Hayes and his team undertook complex recording, editing and mixing processes to achieve Hooper's aim. They captured recordings of the actors amidst loud film sets, edited the vocals, then overdubbed the orchestration.

Awards

• Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, Les Misérables, 85th Academy Awards, 2013.
• BAFTA for Best Sound, Les Misérables, 2012
• CAS Award for Les Misérables, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Live Action, 2012
• Satellite Award for Les Misérables, Best Sound (Editing and Mixing), 2012
• Conch Award for Production Sound Mixer of the year, 2008

Nominations

• BAFTA for Best Sound, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, 2017
• Oscar for Best Sound, No Time to Die, 2022
• BAFTA for Best Sound, No Time to Die, 2022

Filmography

Personal life

Hayes is a 4th degree Brazilian jiu-jitsu blackbelt and coaches at Carlson Gracie London. He also holds a 2nd dan blackbelt in Judo. Hayes raced BMX in the 1980s winning the 1985 European BMX Championships in Barcelona.

References

1. ^ "Simon Hayes, Production Sound Mixer, Les Misérables". dpamicrophones. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
2. ^ "Oscars 2013: Full list of winners". BBC News. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
3. ^ "Winner Les Miserables". BAFTA. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
4. ^ "Oscars 2022: All the winners and nominees". BBC News. 28 March 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
5. ^ "Simon Hayes". British Film Institute. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
6. ^ Tingen, Paul (1 April 2013). "The Les Misérables Sound Team: Part 1". Sound-on-Sound. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
7. Tingen, Paul (1 May 2013). "The Les Misérables Sound Team, Part 2". Sound-on-Sound. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
8. "49th CAS Award Winners". Cinema Audio Society Awards. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
9. "International Press Academy Satellite Awards 2012". International Press Academy. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
10. "Audio Success Celebrated At The Conch Awards 2012". 4rfv. 21 September 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
11. "2022 EE British Academy Film Awards: The Winners". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
12. "Simon Hayes – BJJ Black Belt!". Retrieved 20 May 2018.
13. "Carlson Gracie London Instructors". Retrieved 22 June 2022.
14. "BJA Dan Grade register". Retrieved 21 June 2022.
15. "Simon Hayes-British BMX Hall Of Fame". Retrieved 19 June 2022.

External links

• Official site
• Simon Hayes at IMDb

• Living people
• British audio engineers
• Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners
• Best Sound BAFTA Award winners