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Richard King

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Biography

Richard King is an American film sound designer and editor who has worked on over 70 films. A native of Tampa, Florida, he graduated from the University of South Florida with a BFA in painting and film. He has won Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing for the films Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Dark Knight(2008), Inception (2010), Dunkirk (2017) and the Academy Award for Best Sound for Dune: Part Two (2024). He was also nominated for War of the Worlds (2005), Interstellar (2014), Oppenheimer (2023), and Maestro (2023). He has won BAFTA awards for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Inception (2010), Dunkirk (2017), and Dune: Part Two (2024). He has won eight MPSE awards for Best Sound Editing & Design and the MPSE Career Achievement Award (2016). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard King (sound designer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Dark Knight

Sound Designer

The Prestige

Sound Designer

Oppenheimer

Sound Designer

Inception

Sound Designer

Rise of the Guardians

Sound Designer

The Dark Knight Rises

Sound Designer

Magnolia

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The prestige is the trick you never see coming

A chain of films about magicians, mediums and con artists, tracing the moment cinema learned to lie to us and we learned to love it.

8 films

The Rivalry Within: How Feuds Shape the Soul

From duelling magicians to warring chefs, explore how rivalry reveals our deepest fears and desires. A cinematic journey through competition, obsession, and the...

8 films

The Perfect Needledrop: Ten Moments That Own the Screen

From sudden silences to euphoric choruses, these are the film moments where a song doesn't just score the scene, it becomes the scene.

10 films

When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos

From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...

8 films

Moana and the Sea as Mirror and Crucible

Taking the core premise of Moana (the ocean as a living force that tests, transforms, and reveals who you are) and steering it into far darker territory, this c...

8 films

When the Sequel Outshines the Original

From gritty crime epics to mind-bending sci-fi, these sequels didn't just continue stories, they redefined them. Here's a chain of films that prove the second (...

8 films

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