Thomas Small

Thomas W. Small was an American artist who had worked on four . He was an assistant sound editor on , after which he supervised the foley editing on , , and .
Small was born in Bathesda, Maryland. His career began in the late 1980s when he worked as an assistant sound editor on (1989, starring Terry O'Quinn and Noble Willingham, with Meg Foster and Charles Cooper). In 1989, he began working at Buena Vista Sound, where he assisted in the sound editing of such films as (1990, featuring Jason Alexander and Dey Young).
By 1991, Small joined the sound department at Paramount Pictures. He continued serving as an assistant sound editor at first, with his early credits including (1991) and (1993, both featuring Christopher Lloyd and Carel Struycken), (1992), (1993, featuring Harris Yulin, Raymond Cruz, Ellen Geer, Reg E. Cathey, Ann Magnuson, Vaughn Armstrong, John Putch, Michael Jace, Cameron Thor, Harley Venton, and Elizabeth Dennehy). 
After Star Trek Generations, Paramount promoted Small from assistant sound editor to foley editor. In this position, he worked on such films as (1995, featuring Zach Grenier and Julie Warner), (1995, featuring Louise Fletcher), Primal Fear (featuring Alfre Woodard, Terry O'Quinn, Tony Plana, Kenneth Tigar, and Christopher Carroll), and (1996, featuring Cary-Hiroyuki, Bill Smitrovich, Samantha Eggar, and Leon Russom). He was then promoted to supervising sound editor, and was first credited as such in (1996, featuring Robert Joy).
Small supervised the foley editing for numerous Paramount films, including (2000, co-written by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, photographed by Jeffrey L. Kimball) and (directed by J.J. Abrams and co-written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci), Four Brothers (featuring Fionnula Flanagan), (2003, featuring Boris Krutonog), (2002, starring James Cromwell and Bruce McGill), (2001, executive produced by Stuart Baird and edited by Dallas Puett), (1997, featuring Harve Presnell, Harve Presnell and Robert Wisdom), and (1997, co-starring David Warner).
In 2007, Small started doing foley editing for Walt Disney films in addition to his work with Paramount. His work for Disney included (2007), (2009), (2010). He had also done foley work on films for other studios, such as American Wedding for Universal Pictures and Sex and the City for New Line Cinema.
Small had been nominated for eight Golden Reel Awards by his guild, Motion Picture Sound Editors. He received his first nomination, and only win, for his work on Titanic. He shared the award with fellow Star Trek foley editors Scott Curtis and Tammy Fearing. Small was nominated for (1999), the aforementioned Mission: Impossible 2 (both of which were also shared with Curtis and Fearing), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Italian Job, (2004), Mission: Impossible III, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Small died on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2014, of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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