Daniel J. Bloomberg (July 4, 1905 – August 14, 1984) was an Academy Award-winning audio engineer. Bloomberg's first

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credit was in 1934, his last his Oscar-nominated work on John Ford’s '' The Quiet Man'' 18 years later. In the intervening time, he worked on several films in the

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and Zorro series. Although his work was mainly confined to B pictures, Bloomberg did enjoy the distinction of winning five technical awards from the Academy, as well as eight Academy Award nominations. He also won an Honorary Award in 1945 for designing and building a musical scoring auditorium with

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acoustics. Bloomberg was married to award-winning British actress and beauty queen Eugenie Prescott Bloomberg (born: 1909, Cheshire, England, UK) whose film credits include The Rising Generation (1928), The Flying Squad (1929) and Diggers (1931).IMDb: Eugenie Prescott
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Selected filmography

Bloomberg was nominated for eight Academy Awards: * '' Flying Tigers'' (1942) - Two categories (

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and Best Effects) * '' In Old Oklahoma'' (1943) * '' Brazil'' (1944) * '' Flame of Barbary Coast'' (1945) * '' Moonrise'' (1948) * ''

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'' (1949) * '' The Quiet Man'' (1952)

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* 1905 births 1984 deaths Academy Honorary Award recipients American audio engineers Engineers from Massachusetts 20th-century American engineers Academy Award for Technical Achievement winners {{US-audio-engineer-stub