Robert Rutledge

American sound editor (1948–2001)

Robert Rutledge
Born	(1948-06-03)June 3, 1948 Los Angeles, California, US
Died	October 15, 2001(2001-10-15) (aged 53) North Hollywood, California, US
Other names	Robert R. Rutledge Bob Rutledge
Occupation	Sound editor
Years active	1975–2001

Robert Rutledge (June 3, 1948 – October 15, 2001) was an American sound editor who won Best Sound Editing at the 1985 Academy Awards. He won for Back to the Future, which was shared with Charles L. Campbell.^[1]

At the 32nd British Academy Film Awards, he won a BAFTA Award for Best Soundtrack for the film Star Wars. His win was shared with Sam Shaw, Gordon Davidson, Gene Corso, Derek Ball, Don MacDougall, Bob Minkler, Ray West, Michael Minkler, Les Fresholtz, Richard Portman and Ben Burtt.^[2]

He also did the sound on the TV show Miami Vice.

Selected filmography

Breakdown (1997)
Extreme Justice (1993)
Out for Justice (1991)
Jetsons: The Movie (1990)
Tango & Cash (1989)
Masters of the Universe (1987)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Back to the Future (1985)
Cat's Eye (1985)
Police Academy (1984)
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
History of the World: Part I (1981)
Wolfen (1981)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Scavenger Hunt (1979)
Yogi's Space Race (1979)
Star Wars (1977)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

References

^ "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
^ "Soundtrack in 1979". British Academy Film Awards. Retrieved May 5, 2024.

External links

Robert Rutledge at IMDb

Awards for Robert Rutledge
v t e Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
Sound Effects 1963–1967	Walter Elliott - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Norman Wanstall - Goldfinger (1964) Treg Brown - The Great Race (1965) Gordon Daniel - Grand Prix (1966) John Poyner - The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Sound Effects Editing 1982–1999	Charles L. Campbell and Ben Burtt - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Jay Boekelheide - The Right Stuff (1983) Kay Rose - The River (1984) Charles L. Campbell and Robert Rutledge - Back to the Future (1985) Don Sharpe - Aliens (1986) Stephen Hunter Flick and John Pospisil - RoboCop (1987) Charles L. Campbell and Louis Edemann - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Cecelia Hall and George Watters II - The Hunt for Red October (1990) Gary Rydstrom and Gloria Borders - Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Tom McCarthy and David E. Stone - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns - Jurassic Park (1993) Stephen Hunter Flick - Speed (1994) Lon Bender and Per Hallberg - Braveheart (1995) Bruce Stambler - The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) Tom Bellfort and Christopher Boyes - Titanic (1997) Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns - Saving Private Ryan (1998) Dane Davis - The Matrix (1999)
Sound Editing 2000–2019	Jon Johnson - U-571 (2000) George Watters II and Christopher Boyes - Pearl Harbor (2001) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Richard King - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Michael Silvers and Randy Thom - The Incredibles (2004) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn - King Kong (2005) Bub Asman and Alan Robert Murray - Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg - The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) Richard King - The Dark Knight (2008) Paul N. J. Ottosson - The Hurt Locker (2009) Richard King - Inception (2010) Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton - Hugo (2011) Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers - Skyfall / Paul N. J. Ottosson - Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Glenn Freemantle - Gravity (2013) Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman - American Sniper (2014) Mark Mangini and David White - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Sylvain Bellemare - Arrival (2016) Richard King and Alex Gibson - Dunkirk (2017) John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone - Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Donald Sylvester - Ford v Ferrari (2019)

v t e BAFTA Award for Best Sound
1968–1980	Winston Ryder (1968) Don Challis and Simon Kaye (1969) Don Hall, David Dockendorf and William Edmondson (1970) Vittorio Trentino and Giuseppe Muratori (1971) David Hildyard, Robert Knudson and Arthur Piantadosi (1972) Les Wiggins, Gordon McCallum and Keith Grant (1973) Art Rochester, Nat Boxer, Michael Evje and Walter Murch (1974) William A. Sawyer, James Webb, Chris McLaughlin and Richard Portman (1975) Les Wiggins, Clive Winter and Ken Barker (1976) Peter Horrocks, Gerry Humphreys, Simon Kaye, Robin O'Donoghue and Les Wiggins (1977) Sam Shaw, Robert Rutledge, Gordon Davidson, Gene Corso, Derek Ball, Don MacDougall, Bob Minkler, Ray West, Michael Minkler, Les Fresholtz, Richard Portman and Ben Burtt (1978) Derrick Leather, Jim Shields and Bill Rowe (1979) Christopher Newman, Les Wiggins and Michael J. Kohut (1980)
1981–2000	Don Sharpe, Ivan Sharrock and Bill Rowe (1981) James Guthrie, Eddy Joseph, Clive Winter, Graham V. Hartstone and Nicolas Le Messurier (1982) Willie D. Burton, Michael J. Kohut and William Manger (1983) Ian Fuller, Clive Winter and Bill Rowe (1984) John Nutt, Christopher Newman and Mark Berger (1985) Tom McCarthy Jr., Peter Handford and Chris Jenkins (1986) Jonathan Bates, Simon Kaye and Gerry Humphreys (1987) Charles L. Campbell, Louis Edemann, Robert Knudson and Tony Dawe (1988) Bill Phillips, Danny Michael, Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson and Rick Kline (1989) J. Paul Huntsman, Stephan von Hase, Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander and Doug Hemphill (1990) Lee Orloff, Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom and Gary Summers (1991) Tod A. Maitland, Wylie Stateman, Michael D. Wilhoit, Michael Minkler and Gregg Landaker (1992) John Leveque, Bruce Stambler, Becky Sullivan, Scott D. Smith, Donald O. Mitchell, Michael Herbick and Frank A. Montaño (1993) Stephen Hunter Flick, Gregg Landaker, Steve Maslow, Bob Beemer and David MacMillan (1994) Per Hallberg, Lon Bender, Brian Simmons, Andy Nelson, Scott Millan and Anna Behlmer (1995) Jim Greenhorn, Toivo Lember, Livia Ruzic, Roger Savage and Gareth Vanderhope (1996) Terry Rodman, Roland N. Thai, Kirk Francis, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and John Leveque (1997) Gary Rydstrom, Ron Judkins, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Richard Hymns (1998) David Lee, John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell and Dane Davis (1999) Jeff Wexler, Doug Hemphill, Rick Kline, Paul Massey and Michael D. Wilhoit (2000)
2001–present	Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Roger Savage, Guntis Sics, Gareth Vanderhope and Antony Gray (2001) Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella, David Lee and Maurice Schell (2002) Richard King, Doug Hemphill, Paul Massey and Art Rochester (2003) Karen Baker Landers, Per Hallberg, Steve Cantamessa, Scott Millan, Greg Orloff and Bob Beemer (2004) Paul Massey, Doug Hemphill, Peter Kurland and Donald Sylvester (2005) Chris Munro, Eddy Joseph, Mike Prestwood Smith, Martin Cantwell and Mark Taylor (2006) Kirk Francis, Scott Millan, Dave Parker, Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg (2007) Glenn Freemantle, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers and Ian Tapp (2008) Ray Beckett and Paul N. J. Ottosson (2009) Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick (2010) Philip Stockton, Eugene Gearty, Tom Fleischman and John Midgley (2011) Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole and John Warhurst (2012) Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri and Chris Munro (2013) Thomas Curley, Ben Wilkins and Craig Mann (2014) Lon Bender, Chris Duesterdiek, Martin Hernández, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor and Randy Thom (2015) Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Sylvain Bellemare (2016) Alex Gibson, Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary Rizzo and Mark Weingarten (2017) John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey and John Warhurst (2018) Scott Millan, Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson (2019) Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés and Michelle Couttolenc (2020) Ron Bartlett, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, Mark Mangini and Mac Ruth (2021) Lars Ginzel, Frank Kruse, Viktor Prášil and Markus Stemler (2022) Johnnie Burn and Tarn Willers (2023)