John Keen "Doc" Wilkinson (April 13, 1920 – April 28, 2002) was an 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, reproductio ...

. He won an

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for Best Sound and was nominated for another two in the same category. He worked on more than 140 films between 1958 and 1992.

Selected filmography

Wilkinson won an Academy Award for Best Sound following his work on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in 1945. He was later nominated for another two in the same category, but this time regarding the effort he put into his work in Vietnam. ;Won * ''

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'' (1986) (

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 ...

) ;Nominated * ''

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* 1920 births 2002 deaths American audio engineers Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners People from Hartford, Connecticut Engineers from Connecticut 20th-century American engineers {{US-audio-engineer-stub