Mike Prestwood Smith is a

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, reproductio ...

. Smith and his fellow sound engineers are nominated for an

Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing. The award used to go to the studio sound departments until a rule change in 1969 said it ...

for the 2013 film '' Captain Phillips''. He was also nominated for a

British Academy Film Award The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Film Awards is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film. The cere ...

in the category Best Sound for the film '' Mission: Impossible – Fallout''. His nomination was shared with Gilbert Lake, James Mather and

Chris Munro Chris Munro is a British sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972. Selected filmography Munro has won two Academy Awards ...

. He has worked on over 100 films since 1996.

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