Gary Summers

Gary Summers is an American re-recording mixer.

Gary Summers
Occupation	Sound engineer
Years active	1980–present

He has done the sound re-recording on many blockbuster motion pictures including Avatar, Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Saving Private Ryan, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Jurassic Park. Summers has won four Academy Awards, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA awards and three C.A.S. Awards.^[1]

He got his start working on The Empire Strikes Back and began twenty years working for the Skywalker Sound division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in Marin County, California.^[2] Summers formed Summers Sound Services, Inc. in 2002 and is currently self-employed.

Academy Awards

Summers has won four Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for eight more:

Wins

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)^[3]
• Jurassic Park (1993)^[4]
• Titanic (1997)^[5]
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)^[6]

Nominated

• Return of the Jedi (1983)^[7]
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)^[8]
• Backdraft (1991)^[3]
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)^[9]
• Avatar (2009)^[9]
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)^[10]
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)^[11]
• Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)^[12]