CULVER CITY, CA — Sony Pictures Post Production Services (www.sonypictures.com) continues to grow its sound department with the addition of re-recording mixers Steve Pederson and Daniel J. Leahy. The two have worked as a team on a number of motion pictures, including the Antoine Fuqua film The Equalizer, which, as independents, they mixed on Sony Pictures’ Cary Grant Stage last year. They are currently mixing Fuqua’s latest film,
Southpaw on the Sony lot. Upcoming projects include HBO’s
True Detective and Fuqua’s remake of
The Magnificent Seven.
Re-recording mixers Pederson and Leahy
Pederson and Leahy each has more than 100 feature films to his credit. Pederson’s career includes tenures at Universal Studios, Warner Bros. and Todd-AO. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound in 1996 for Apollo 13 (shared with Rick Dior, Scott Millan and David MacMillan), alongside one other Academy Award, three BAFTA and two Emmy Award nominations. His many credits include
Rock of Ages, The Blind Side, Hall Pass and
Schindler’s List.
Leahy’s career spans 30 years and includes work at Todd-AO, Warner Bros., and Universal Studios, and as an independent. He won Emmy Awards in 2010 and 1999 for The Pacific (shared with Michael Minkler and Andrew Ramage) and
The Rat Pack (shared with Michael C. Casper and Felipe Borrero), respectively. Other notable credits include
The Boy Next Door, Olympus Has Fallen, Training Day and
The Fast and the Furious. One of his first credits as re-recording mixer came on
Back to the Future.