Larry Blake
Known For: Sound
Biography
Larry Blake is a supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer of feature films. He has mixed over 65 features since 1989, and was also the supervising sound editor on 50 of them. Included in this number are 29 features and three television seasons with Steven Soderbergh, plus multiple films from Victor Nunez, David Gordon Green, and the Duplass Brothers. In addition, he has mixed 15 feature-length documentaries. In 2013 won both Emmy and Cinema Audio Society awards for Best Sound for a Miniseries or a Movie for his work on Behind the Candelabra. In 2002 he won a Golden Satellite Award for Solaris. He has written extensively on film sound, beginning in 1981 for Recording Engineer/Producer and then in Mix; these writings total over 110 columns and 35 feature articles. He soon will be publishing separate anthologies of the columns and features, in addition to the autobiography of film sound great Murray Spivack. First up is a book he’s writing on the digital archiving of motion pictures, Solving the Digital Dilemma. Following from his work as a writer, he has curated many seminars on film sound for the Director’s Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, SMPTE, and the Audio Engineering Society. He has been a guest speaker at the Camerimage Film Festival, USC, UCLA, and the Savannah College of Art and Design, among many others. From 2000-2016 he owned Swelltone Labs, a post-production sound facility in New Orleans, where he lives.
Filmography
2023
- Magic Mike's Last Dance ... (Sound Designer)
- Full Circle ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2022
- Kimi ... (Sound Designer)
2021
- No Sudden Move ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2020
- Let Them All Talk ... (Thanks)
2019
- The Laundromat ... (Sound Designer)
2018
- Cut Off ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Mosaic ... (Sound Designer)
- Shirkers ... (Sound Recordist)
- Cliff and Larry: Beginnings as Self
- Generators, Noise Reduction, and Multitrack Audiotape as Self
2017
- Logan Lucky ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2016
- Camera Store ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
2015
- Magic Mike XXL ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2014
- The Voices ... (ADR Mixer)
- King of Herrings ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
2013
- Side Effects ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Tim's Vermeer ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Behind the Candelabra ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
2012
- Magic Mike ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
2011
- Haywire ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Contagion ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Love, Wedding, Marriage ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2010
- Cyrus ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- And Everything Is Going Fine ... (Sound Post Production Coordinator)
- Race ... (Sound Editor)
2009
- The Informant! ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- The Girlfriend Experience ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2008
- Che: Part One ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Che: Part Two ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
2007
- Snow Angels ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Ocean's Thirteen ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2006
- The Good German ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- The Puffy Chair ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- By Invitation Only ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Downtown Locals ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2005
- Syriana ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- A Player to Be Named Later ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2004
- Before Sunset ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Ocean's Twelve ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Undertow ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Criminal ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Eros ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Keane ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Ball and Chain ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Scrapple ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Straight Into Darkness ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2003
- Chicken Party ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2002
- Solaris ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Coastlines ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Full Frontal ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Welcome to Collinwood ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
2001
- Ocean's Eleven ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Waking Life ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- The Journeyman ... (Sound Editor)
2000
- Erin Brockovich ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Traffic ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Housebound ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
1999
- The Limey ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
1998
- Out of Sight ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- How to Make the Cruelest Month ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
1997
- Schizopolis ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Love Jones ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
1996
- The Pallbearer ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Gray's Anatomy ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
- Deep in the Heart ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
1995
- The Underneath ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
1994
- Fresh ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
1993
- Lush Life ... (Sound Editor)
- King of the Hill ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
1991
- Kafka ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
1989
- sex, lies, and videotape ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
1988
- Monkey Shines ... (Sound Effects Editor)
1987
- The Last Slumber Party ... (Sound)
1985
- Yes - 90125 Live ... (Sound)
- Access All Areas ... (Sound Recordist)
1980
- Airplane! as Upside-Down Man (uncredited)