After greater than three a long time at Sony Pictures Entertainment, well-known sound vet Tom “Tommy” McCarthy is retiring from his put up as government vp postproduction services. With the transition, Kimberly Jimenez has been promoted to senior vp postproduction companies.
imenez is a 30-year sound vet who joined Sony in 2018, having beforehand labored in sound at NBC Common, Soundelux and Todd-AO. “I stay up for seeing Kimberly’s continued management and dedication to our best-in-class postproduction group and services,” wrote Jon Hookstratten, exec vp administration and operations, in a Thursday employees memo through which he introduced the information.
“Tommy is a legend on this enterprise,” wrote Hookstratten of the retiring exec, noting that in McCarthy’s 32 years at Sony he “led the studio’s sound editorial and mixing departments, constructed SPE’s status as THE vacation spot for postproduction companies, and created an setting the place artistic expertise may thrive.”
McCarthy started his profession as a sound editor on such traditional tv exhibits as How the West Was Received, CHIPS and Logan’s Run. In 1992, he gained an Oscar in sound modifying for Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
He additionally served the neighborhood as previous president of MPSE (Movement Image Sound Editors) and a member of the Movement Image Academy and Tv Academy. He’s a previous member of the Academy’s sound department government board.
The put up enterprise was a part of his household. McCarthy’s father, Thomas J. McCarthy, was an image editor who grew to become government vp worldwide postproduction for Columbia Photos. His spouse, Roxanne, labored as a sound editor and supervising sound editor for a few years.
