Bub Asman (born August 17, 1949, in
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...
) is a
sound editor known for his collaborations with director
Clint Eastwood. He and his colleagues on the 2006 film ''
Letters from Iwo Jima'' won the
Academy Award
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for
Best Sound Editing, and were nominated the same year for ''
Flags of Our Fathers''. He also won for the 2014 film ''
American Sniper''.
He shared both awards with
Alan Robert Murray.
He is a brother of
cinematographer William L. Asman and
re-recording mixer
A re-recording mixer in North America, also known as a dubbing mixer in Europe, is a post-production audio engineer who mixes recorded dialogue, sound effects and music to create the final version of a soundtrack for a feature film, television p ...
John Asman. He began his career (with brother John) as a
film editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology.
The film ed ...
on Lee Jones' ''
The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow'' (1973) and films of
William Girdler.
References
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Living people
Asman, John
People from Louisville, Kentucky
American sound editors
Best Sound Editing Academy Award winners
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