Jimmy Lifton
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Jimmy Lifton honoring veterans at the Lifton Institute of Media Arts & Sciences Vet 50 Gala
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James Ian Lifton January 13, 1955 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Residence | Valencia, Santa Clarita, California |
| Occupation | Musician, producer |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Spouse(s) | Paulette Victor-Lifton (m. 1997; div. 2016) |
James Ian Lifton (born January 13, 1955), known as James Lifton and Jimmy Lifton, is an American musician and a producer who has worked on over 40 television and film productions. In 1983, while in Los Angeles, Lifton focused on studio work and scored symphonic-type music for the Griffith Observatory. For one of the planetary programs, Lifton played background music while science fiction writer Ray Bradbury read prose and poetry. He released a song called "I'm A Man" in 1986, written by Jimmy Miller and Steve Winwood, which made it to #23 on the Billboard music charts.Billboard also nominated him for "Best Independent Production Of The Year" in 1985.
Lifton's first major film production was the horror cult classic, Mirror, Mirror (1990). Since then, he has gone on to produce 18 feature films, working with such talent as Mark Ruffalo, Christina Ricci, Hulk Hogan, James Brolin, Traci Lords, and Bruce Campbell to name a few. In 1998, Lifton produced a film titled Monkey Business, which starred young rising star Shia LeBouf. Shia earned his Screen Actors Guild card from his role in the film. Lifton co-founded a post production company called Oracle Post in 1996.
Oracle Post provides picture and sound needs for feature films and television and has a client base which consists of such industry giants as Fox, HBO, NBC, Universal, Disney, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Sony, Warner Brothers and MTV. Through Lifton's work with Oracle Post he has earned 15 Golden Reel Awards nominations, 5 of which he won, and 5 Daytime Emmy nominations, 2 of which he won for Outstanding Sound Editing – Live Action and Animation for The Penguins of Madagascar (2008) and Outstanding Sound Editing – Animation for Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2011).
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