Wylie Stateman

Wylie Stateman
Occupation	Supervising Sound Editor Sound Designer Entrepreneur
Years active	1980–present

Wylie Stateman is an American supervising sound editor. Stateman’s been nominated for multiple industry awards, including eight Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and 15 Motion Picture Sound Editor Awards. Stateman is the co-founder of post production sound services company Soundelux

Stateman was introduced to the world of feature films in 1980, working as a sound editor on A Coal Miner’s Daughter. Over the next five years, his name appeared on such films as Das Boot, TRON, and Footloose.

Stateman regularly works with some of the most prominent film directors in the industry, including:

Oliver Stone — Savages, W., World Trade Center, Alexander, Any Given Sunday, Nixon, Natural Born Killers, Heaven & Earth, JFK, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July and Talk Radio.

Quentin Tarantino — Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds, Grindhouse: Death Proof, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2

John Hughes — Dennis the Menace, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Curly Sue, Dutch, Only the Lonely, Home Alone, Christmas Vacation, Uncle Buck, She’s Having a Baby, Planes, Trans & Automobiles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Rob Marshall — Nine and Memoirs of a Geisha

Cameron Crowe — Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire

Stateman is credited as executive producer on the 2000 release ‘’True Rights’’ and the 1999 film The Dogwalker.

Wylie Stateman has been nominated for 8 Academy Awards, 4 BAFTA Awards (1 win), 15 Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards (3 wins), an Emmy Award and a Satellite Award.

In addition to his film work, Stateman has been an active entrepreneur with a handful of sound related businesses. Along with partner Lon Bender, Stateman has hand in starting Liberty Livewire Audio, Signet Soundelux Studios, Vine Street Studios, Soundelux Media Labs, Modern Music and a leading sound effects library known as The Hollywood Edge.

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