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‘Star Wars’ and ‘Indiana Jones’ Sound Designer Ben Burtt to Be Honored by Locarno Film Festival
'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones' sound designer Ben Burtt will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its lifetime achievement award.
The Locarno Film Festival will honor multiple Oscar winner Ben Burtt — the sound designer, editor and voice actor behind the ‘ Star Wars ‘ and ‘Indiana Jones’ franchises — with its lifetime achievement award dedicated to creative pioneers. The prominent Swiss fest celebrating international indie cinema will be feting Burtt, best known for voicing Wall-E and creating Darth Vader’s mechanical breathing, with its Vision Award Ticinomoda. “Burtt is behind a staggering number of sound effects that have since imprinted themselves on the minds of several generations of audiences and are still imitated in school playgrounds around the world today.”
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