# William Nicholson (sound engineer)

William M. Nicholson (born November 18th, 1937) is a sound re-recording mixer at NBC Universal studios in Los Angeles, California. During his lengthy career, he has received numerous awards and nominations, including 5 Emmy awards, 22 Emmy nominations, 2 Cinema Audio Society nominations, and an Academy Award nomination for Martin Scorsese's 1980 film Raging Bull. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

## Biography

Nicholson was born in San Antonio, Texas and grew up in McLean County, Illinois. After serving in the Army in post-World War II Europe, he moved to Los Angeles and took a job as a rent boy, eventually working his way up to sound mixer. After working on feature films for Warner Hollywood Studios, he moved to Todd-AO/Glen Glenn in the early 1980s to do television post-production. In 1998, he began work on Dubbing stage 2 at Universal Studios. While there, aside from many other projects, he has mixed all but three of the shows in Dick Wolf's 18-year-old Law & Order franchise.
After moving away from full-length feature films to work in television, Nicholson's old job was taken by Kevin O'Connell, the person with the most Academy Award nominations (19) without a win.
He currently lives with his wife Barbara in Glendale, California.

## Awards and nominations
### Oscars

* 1980 nomination, Best Sound, Raging Bull

### Emmys

* 1982 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Individual Achievement - Children's Programming, Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982)
* 1982 Emmy award, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Personal Foul"
* 1983 Emmy award, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Trial By Fury"
* 1983 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Cagney & Lacey, for episode "Recreational Use"
* 1983 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, St. Elsewhere, for episode "The Count"
* 1984 Emmy award, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Parting is Such Sweep Sorrow"
* 1984 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Cagney & Lacey, for episode "Bounty Hunter"
* 1984 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Praise Dilaudid"
* 1985 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, St. Elsewhere, for episode "Sweet Dreams"
* 1985 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Queen For a Day"
* 1985 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "The Rise and Fall of Paul the Wall"
* 1985 Emmy award, Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Series, Cagney & Lacey, for episode "Heat"
* 1986 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special, Newhart, for episode "Larry's Dead, Long Live Larry"
* 1986 Emmy award, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, St. Elsewhere, for episode "Iced Coffey"
* 1986 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "Time Heals, part 2"
* 1987 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Crime Story, for pilot episode
* 1987 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Hill Street Blues, for episode "It Ain't Over Till it's Over"
* 1988 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Dramatic Miniseries or a Special, Foxfire
* 1997 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Law & Order, for episode "D-Girl"
* 1999 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Law & Order, for episode "Empire"
* 2000 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, Law & Order, for episode "Gunshow"
* 2001 Emmy nomination, Outstanding Single Camera Sound Mixing for a Series, Law & Order, for episode "School Daze"
* 2001 Cinema Audio Society nomination, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series, Law & Order, for episode "Standoff"
* 2002 Cinema Audio Society nomination, Outstanding Sound Mixing for Television - Series, Law & Order, for episode "Soldier of Fortune"

## List of films and television shows worked on

[incomplete listing]

### Films

* Being There (1979)
* Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
* The Island (1980)
* Xanadu (1980)
* Raging Bull (1980)
* Inside Moves (1980)
* The Cannonball Run (1981)
* Southern Comfort (1981)
* Sharky's Machine (1981)
* Death Valley (1982)
* Jetsons: The Movie (1990)
* A Guy Walks into a Bar (1997)

### Television series

* Hill Street Blues
* St. Elsewhere
* Cagney & Lacey
* Remington Steele
* Bay City Blues
* Beverly Hills Cop
* Father Dowling Mysteries
* Jake and The Fatman
* Murder She Wrote
* Diagnosis Murder
* Miami Vice
* SeaQuest
* Nasty Boys
* New York Undercover
* Law & Order
* Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
* Law & Order: Criminal Intent
* Law & Order: Trial by Jury
* Law & Order: Crime & Punishment
* Conviction
* Lipstick Jungle

### Television films

* Rascals & Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn (1982)
* The Lightship (1986)
* Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin (1989)
* Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (1990)
* Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990)
* Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo (1992)
* Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride (1992)
* Ladykiller (1992)
* In the Company of Darkness (1993)
* Blindsided (1993)
* Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1993)
* For the Love of My Child: The Alissa Ayala Story (1993)
* Caught in the Act (1993)
* The Disappearance of Christina (1993)
* Children of the Mist (1993)
* Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host (1993)
* Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss (1993)
* The Haunting of Seacliff Inn (1994)
* A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle (1994)
* Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1994)
* Don't Talk to Strangers (1994)
* Out of Annie's Past (1995)
* A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester (1995)
* Evil Has a Face (1996)
* Exiled (1998)
* Haley Wagner, Star (1999)
* Horse Sense (1999)