A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mike
Birthplace:
Jackson, Minnesota, USA
Born:
July 31, 1963
Michael Semanick is an American sound engineer, credited as a sound re-recording mixer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for nine more in the same category. He has worked on more than 110 films since 1987.
Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
2014 The Lego Movie
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Foley Recordist:
1995 Heavyweights
2014 The Lego Movie
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Sound:
1995 Heavyweights
2012 Dark Shadows
2014 The Lego Movie
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Sound Designer:
1995 Heavyweights
2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2012 Dark Shadows
2014 The Lego Movie
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Sound Mixer:
1995 Heavyweights
1999 Orfeu
2003 Taste the Revolution
2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2012 Dark Shadows
2014 The Lego Movie
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
1991 Closet Land
1991 Ernest Scared Stupid
1992 Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
1992 The Vagrant
1992 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1993 Indian Summer
1993 Money for Nothing
1994 Ed Wood
1994 Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
1995 Heavyweights
1995 To Die For
1996 Race the Sun
1996 Romeo + Juliet
1997 The Game
1997 The Rainmaker
1998 54
1998 Air Bud: Golden Receiver
1998 Rushmore
1998 The Faculty
1999 Arlington Road
1999 Fight Club
1999 Magnolia
1999 Office Space
1999 Orfeu
2000 Frequency
2000 Pitch Black
2000 Space Cowboys
2000 Unbreakable
2001 Monkeybone
2001 Spy Kids
2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 John Q
2002 Punch-Drunk Love
2002 Signs
2002 Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 The Mothman Prophecies
2003 Mystic River
2003 Taste the Revolution
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2004 Team America: World Police
2005 Corpse Bride
2005 King Kong
2006 Lady in the Water
2006 Stranger Than Fiction
2007 Ratatouille
2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 There Will Be Blood
2007 Zodiac
2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 WALL·E
2009 Up
2009 Where the Wild Things Are
2010 Alice in Wonderland
2010 How Do You Know
2010 The Social Network
2010 Toy Story 3
2011 Cars 2
2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2012 Dark Shadows
2012 Frankenweenie
2012 John Carter
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 The Master
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
2013 Monsters University
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013 The Wisdom Tree
2014 22 Jump Street
2014 Big Eyes
2014 Gone Girl
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 The Lego Movie
2015 Crimson Peak
2015 Inside Out
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016 Finding Dory
2016 Krisha
2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016 The Great Wall
2017 Cars 3
2017 Coco
2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017 The Lego Batman Movie
2018 Incredibles 2
2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 Welcome to Marwen
2019 Toy Story 4
2020 Onward
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021 The Green Knight
2021 The Mitchells vs. the Machines
2022 Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
2022 Werewolf by Night
2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
2023 The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story
2024 Spellbound
2025 The Electric State
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.