Mary H. Ellis

Mary H. Ellis is an American production sound mixer. She has been nominated twice for an Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing (for First Man in 2019 and Baby Driver in 2018). Both films also received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound. Mary is the second female production mixer to be nominated for an Academy Award.[1]

Life/Education

Ellis studied at the University of Alabama with a degree in Film and Television.[2] Ellis is from Atlanta. She said of working on Baby Driver, “Being an Atlanta local, I grew up in this industry with most of the crew on this show, so there is a lot of respectful assistance.”[3]

Career

Her first big break was working on Fried Green Tomatoes.[4]

Awards

She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie for her work Warm Springs in 2005. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on Andersonville in 1996. Mary has also been nominated for four Cinema Audio Society Awards.

Ellis was named to the Cinema Audio Society Board of Directors in 2019.[5]

gollark: The existence of working ways to modify them as needed isn't guaranteed.
gollark: Yes. It's still a bad fire extinguisher regardless of how good the designers thought/claimed they were being.
gollark: Systems have no intentions. People in them might, and the designers probably did, and the designers also likely claimed some intention, and people also probably ascribe some to them. But that doesn't mean that the system itself "wants" to do any of those.
gollark: I think you could reasonably argue that it's better to respect institutions than ignore them because it's better for social cohesion/stability, but I don't agree that you should respect them because they're meant to be fair and because you can always get them to fix problems you experience if this isn't actually true.
gollark: If the fire extinguisher actually explodes when used to put out fires, it would be a bad fire extinguisher even if the designers talk about how good it is and how many fires it can remove.

References
  1. "List of Female Academy Award winners and nominees for non-gendered categories", Wikipedia, 2019-02-04, retrieved 2019-02-11
  2. "Film & TV Production Sound". SoundGirls.org. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  3. "'Baby Driver': Production Mixer Mary Ellis and Editor Paul Machliss Bring Sound and Picture into Perfect Sync". Sound & Picture. 2018-02-21. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  4. Dolby, Conversations with Sound Artists: 2018 Oscars® Edition-Baby Driver | Podcast | Dolby, retrieved 2019-02-11
  5. "Mary Ellis and Flip Borrero Nominated For CAS Awards". IATSE Local 479. 2019-01-17. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
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