Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Mysteries of Love

Rising Sun

Henry & June

Mountains of the Moon

Dead Poets Society

Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Blue Velvet

Broken Rainbow

Dune

The Elephant Man

The Black Stallion

Days of Heaven

Eraserhead

The Grandmother

Alan Splet (December 31, 1939 – December 2, 1994) was an American sound designer and sound editor known for his collaborations with director David Lynch on Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, and Blue Velvet.
Due to being legally blind, Splet rarely traveled and mainly worked from Berkeley, California. In 1980, he won an Oscar for his work on the film The Black Stallion. He did not attend the Academy Award ceremony and became the butt of several jokes by host Johnny Carson throughout the remainder of the telecast. He was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for Never Cry Wolf. In 1995, The Motion Picture Sound Editors union posthumously honored Splet with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his creative contributions to the field of cinema audio.
Splet was married to sound effects designer Ann Kroeber, and collaborated with her on most of his projects from 1979 until his death in 1994.



Alan Splet

Alan Splet

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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Mysteries of Love