Michelle Couttolenc is a Mexican-American

sound engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...

. She won an

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in the category

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for the film ''

Sound of Metal ''Sound of Metal'' is a 2019 American drama film directed and co-written by Darius Marder. It stars Riz Ahmed as a metal drummer who loses his hearing, and also features Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff, and Mathieu Amalric. ''Sound of M ...

''.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (2020; co-won with Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Carlos Cortés Navarrete and Phillip Bladh)

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* Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) American audio engineers Mexican audio engineers Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners Best Sound BAFTA Award winners 21st-century American engineers 21st-century American women engineers 21st-century Mexican engineers Mexican emigrants to the United States {{US-audio-engineer-stub