Mark A. Mangini

...is an Oscar winning (MAD MAX FURY ROAD) and five time Oscar nominated Sound Designer known for films including BLADE RUNNER 2049, STAR TREK I, IV, & V, THE FIFTH ELEMENT, GREMLINS and RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. He has spent his 44 year career in Hollywood imagining and composing altered sonic realities for motion pictures. He is a frequent lecturer, an outspoken proponent for sound as art and a guitarist/songwriter with compositions in sex, lies and videotape, Star Trek IV and others. He is a member of S.A.G, SMPTE, and ASCAP. "Having grown up a musician, I am avowed of the idea that all organized sound is music. I see my work in movies every bit a composition as those of Beethoven and the Beatles. I just happen to use dissonance, specious melodic content and arrhythmia to it's fullest advantage. My works are no less considered, designed, creative or manipulative. They just aren't hummable." A Boston native, Mark attended Holy Cross College as a foreign language major but could not