Tim Cooney (sound engineer)


Tim Cooney is an American film production sound mixer, animal trainer and musician.

Early life and career

Cooney was born in Glendale, California but then later moved to West Virginia. At a young age, pursuing his desire to be musician, he joined a bluegrass band called the Canfields, playing guitar.
After graduating from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, he worked as a clown for Circus Vargas for a year but decided he wanted to train animals. He trained animals for circuses, the St. Louis Zoo, and then the film business.

Film industry

In 1976, Cooney started working as a boom man on the motion picture Roar considered to be the most dangerous film ever made then at Universal Studios. His first studio picture as production mixer was Blue Thunder for Columbia Pictures in 1981. Cooney was the first production mixer in history to have sound on his own web page. He had several animated items on his page as well, which had not been done at the time. The page has been taken down since his retirement. Cooney sat twice on the board of directors of the Cinema Audio Society is still a member of the motion picture academy of arts and sciences and the television academy of arts and sciences. Cooney was a producer on the movie the November Conspiracy. He also directed a few music videos, the most notable "About Love" with the singer Johnny Rivers. But one of his biggest works is for the movie Cliffhanger where he was nominated for an Academy Award.

Awards and nominations

Cooney has received nominations for various awards that include an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound for Cliffhanger, three Emmys nominations, two Cinema Audio Society nominations For Outstanding Achievement In Sound Mixing and three Golden Reel Award nominations. Cooney won the Golden Reel for best sound in 2000 and wrote a book entitled, Work in movies? Are you crazy?
FILMOGRAPHY
2014 Something Wicked
2010 The Event
2010 Secretariat
2009-2010 Community
2009 Bring It On: Fight to the Finish
2008 Sons of Anarchy
2008 The Shield
2007 Three Days to Vegas
2007 Raines
2006 One Night with the King
2006 Glass House: The Good Mother
2005 Commander in Chief
2005 Beauty Shop
2004 Paparazzi
2004 The Punisher
2003 Timeline
2003 Birds of Prey
2002 We Were Soldiers
2002 The Salton Sea
2001 Joy Ride
2001 Dinner with Friends
2000 Noriega: God's Favorite
1999 The Strip
1999 Deep Blue Sea
1998 World Upon Her Shoulder
1998 The Last Days
1998 Lethal Weapon 4
1997 Buffalo Soldiers
1997 Conspiracy Theory
1997 Gone Fishin'
1997 Hollywood Confidential
1996 D3: The Mighty Ducks
1995 Bushwhacked
1994 Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
1993 South of Sunset
1993 Demolition Man
1993 Cliffhanger
1991 Session Man
1991 The Marrying Man
1991 Hell Hath No Fury
1990 The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
1990 Die Hard 2
1989 Nick Knight
1985-1989 Murder, She Wrote
1988 I Saw What You Did
1983 Blue Thunder
1983 Sweet Sixteen
1981 Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981 Roar
1979 Tourist Trap