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Steve Maslow, a longtime go-to re-recording mixer who won Oscars for The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of nan Lost Ark and Speed and had 4 different profession nominations during a prolific half-century career, has died. He was 81.
Cinema Audio Society confirmed to Deadline that Maslow died April 27 of crab successful West Hills, CA.
Along pinch his back-to-back Academy Awards for nan 1980 Star Wars sequel and 1981’s Indiana Jones pic and 1994 Keanu Reeves-Sandra Bullock actioner, Maslow scored noms for Dune (1984), Waterworld (1995), Twister (1996) and U-571 (2000). His hundreds of others credits scope from More American Graffiti, 10 and Best Picture Oscar victor Ordinary People to Poltergeist, Airplane II: The Sequel and Christine to Starman, Gremlins, Ferris Beuller’s Day Off and Children of a Lesser God to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Twister and Waterworld, The Conjuring, Mad Max: Fury Road and galore more.
Maslow besides worked connected respective performance films and stone documentaries, starting pinch The Band’s The Last Waltz. He spent six months arsenic a re-recording mixer of nan Martin Scorsese-directed movie that chronicled nan revered group’s landmark 1976 farewell show, which deed theaters successful 1978. He went connected to do sound activity connected euphony pics including The Who’s The Kids Are Alright, Neil Young’s Rust Never Sleeps, No Nukes, This Is Elvis, Beatlemania, Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense, The Police: Synchrnicity Concert, Prince’s Sign o’ nan Times and nan euphony video Michael Jackson: Black aliases White.
He besides worked connected music-based pics including nan Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire, Neil Diamond-led The Jazz Singer and nan 1986 philharmonic Little Shop of Horrors.
Maslow stone ‘n’ rotation roots ran deep. Born connected October 17, 1944, successful L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, he was successful assemblage erstwhile he sewage a left-field occupation connection from a friend — who happened to beryllium nan keyboard subordinate for “Incense and Peppermints” set Strawberry Alarm Clock.
“Everybody other had a extremity but me,” he said successful a 2018 interview pinch nan MPSE’s CineMontage. “I was successful assemblage because I thought it was nan point to do, and it kept maine retired of nan draft. I went to a day statement astatine nan location of Mark Weitz, who asked maine if I wanted to spell connected nan roadworthy pinch them arsenic their instrumentality roadie. I said, ‘Sure, why not?’”
Maslow soon would discontinue schoolhouse for nan euphony business and became a signaling engineer. Among his credits is nan Four Seasons’ 1976 chart-topper “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)” and A Taste of Honey’s “Boogie Oogie Oogie,” which led to nan disco group winning nan Best New Artist Grammy complete chap nominees The Cars, Elvis Costello and Toto.
But by then, he told CineMontage, “That started to barren up for me.” So he sewage an IATSE paper and made himself disposable for work. “Samuel Goldwyn Studio called maine soon thereafter,” he said successful nan interview. “I was location for almost 15 years.”
Along pinch Scorsese, Maslow would activity pinch a litany of top-name filmmakers including Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, John Carpenter, Tim Burton, Robert Wise, John Hughes, Blake Edwards and galore others.
Survivors see Maslow’s woman Ronna and boy Travis.
