Gordon E. Sawyer

Gordon E. Sawyer (27 August 1905 – 15 May 1980) was sound director at Samuel Goldwyn Productions. He won 3 Oscars for Best Sound and was nominated a further 13 times.

Sawyer won three Academy Awards and was nominated for 13 more:

Won

• The Bishop's Wife (1947)
• The Alamo (1960)
• West Side Story (1961)

Nominated

• Wonder Man (1944)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• Our Very Own (1950)
• I Want You (1951)
• Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
• Friendly Persuasion (1956)
• Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
• I Want to Live! (1958)
• Porgy and Bess (1959)
• The Apartment (1960)
• The Loudest Whisper (1961)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
• Hawaii (1966)

• "The 20th Academy Awards (1948) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-18. 
• ^ "The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-22. 
• ^ "The 34th Academy Awards (1962) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-22. 
• "The 18th Academy Awards (1946) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19. 
• "The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19. 
• "The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-19. 
• "The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-20. 
• "The 25th Academy Awards (1953) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-20. 
• "The 29th Academy Awards (1957) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-21. 
• "The 30th Academy Awards (1958) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-21. 
• "The 31st Academy Awards (1959) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-21. 
• "The 32nd Academy Awards (1960) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-21. 
• "The 36th Academy Awards (1964) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-23. 
• "The 39th Academy Awards (1967) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-24. 

The Gordon E. Sawyer award was instituted at the Academy Awards in 1981 *Gordon E. Sawyer Award