Dan Wallin

Dan Wallin was an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-nominated music score mixer and sound re-recording mixer whose over five hundred films include , , and . He mixed the scores for all three of these films, and also mixed Michael Giacchino's score for 's , and worked as an uncredited music score engineer on , which was his last known contribution to the film industry.
Wallin worked with Giacchino on many other projects. The two collaborated on Paramount Pictures' (2006, was directed by Star Treks J.J. Abrams). In addition, Wallin mixed Giacchino's score for the Abrams-created series Alias and currently works with Giacchino on Lost, co-created by Abrams and fellow Trek producer Damon Lindelof. Wallin and Giacchino's collaborations also included the Disney/Pixar Animation Studios films The Incredibles and Ratatouille, Disney's Sky High, and such video games as Call of Duty and Mercenaries.
Wallin's score and sound mixing career spanned four decades. He collaborated on the soundtracks for such classic motion pictures as Bonnie and Clyde, (1967), The Wild Bunch, THX 1138, Dirty Harry, Enter the Dragon, (1974), Truck Turner (starring Nichelle Nichols), (1974, starring Terri Garr), Nashville (starring Keith Carradine, Robert DoQui, Henry Gibson, and Bert Remsen), All the President's Men, Saturday Night Fever, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (starring Leonard Nimoy), and Time After Time (directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Malcolm McDowell and David Warner). Wallin earned a 1970 Academy Award nomination for Best Sound for his work on the musical documentary Woodstock, and received a second nomination for (1976). The latter nomination was shared with sound mixer Tom Overton.
Some of Wallin's more recent film credits include Airplane!, (1982, featuring Denise Crosby), The Right Stuff, (1983), Police Academy, (1984), (1985), (1987), Leonard Nimoy's The Good Mother, (1989), (1990), The Fugitive, (1993), (1996), The Insider, (2000), (2001, starring William Shatner), (2001, featuring LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, and Bruce McGill), (2003), Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (starring John Cho), and (2006).
Wallin worked on many television projects, as well. He mixed the scores for (1977, starring LeVar Burton, John Schuck, Madge Sinclair, and Ben Vereen) and for such noted TV movies as Eleanor and Franklin, Sybil, and Nicholas Meyers' The Day After (featuring Bibi Besch). He more recently worked on TV movies such as Citizen Cohn and Gotti, both of which earned him nominations from the Emmy Awards.
Wallin was the oldest working sound engineer in the film industry. 
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