Awards & Winners

Daniel J. Bloomberg

Date of Birth 04-July-1905
Place of Birth Massachusetts
(New England, United States of America, United States, with Territories, Contiguous United States)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Daniel Bloomberg, Dan Bloomberg
Profession Audio Engineer
Daniel J. Bloomberg was an Academy award-winning audio engineer. Bloomberg's first Hollywood credit was in 1934, his last his Oscar-nominated work on John Ford’s The Quiet Man 18 years later. In the intervening time, he worked on several films in the Dick Tracy and Zorro series. Although his work was mainly confined to B pictures, Bloomberg did enjoy the distinction of winning five technical awards from the Academy, as well as eight Academy Award nominations. He also won an Honorary Award in 1945 for designing and building a musical scoring auditorium with state-of-the-art acoustics. Bloomberg was married to award-winning British actress and beauty queen Eugenie Prescott Bloomberg whose film credits include The Rising Generation, The Flying Squad and Diggers.

Awards by Daniel J. Bloomberg

Check all the awards nominated and won by Daniel J. Bloomberg.

1956


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(for the Naturama adaptation to the Mitchell camera)

1952


Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing The Quiet Man
Republic Studio Sound Department

1949


Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing Sands of Iwo Jima
Republic Sound Dept.

1948


Nominations 1948 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing Moonrise
Republic Studio Sound Department

1945


Academy Honorary Award
(for the building of an outstanding musical scoring auditorium which provides optimum recording conditions and combines all elements of acoustic and engineering design)

Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing Flame of Barbary Coast
Republic Studio Sound Department

1944


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(for the design and development of a multi-interlock selector switch)

Nominations 1944 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing Brazil
Republic Studio Sound Department

1943


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(for the design and development of an inexpensive method of converting Moviolas to Class B push-pull reproduction.)

Nominations 1943 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing In Old Oklahoma
Republic Studio Sound Department

1942


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(for the design and application to motion picture production of a device for marking action negative for pre-selection purposes.)

Nominations 1942 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Flying Tigers
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing Flying Tigers
Republic Studio Sound Department