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Simon Hayes is a British sound engineer. Hayes won an Academy Award for Best Sound at the 85th Academy Awards for his work on Les Misérables. He won a BAFTA for Best Sound for the same film. In 2022, the 94th Academy Awards included Hayes as a nominee for Best Sound Mixing for his work on No Time to Die.
After starting work as a runner for a commercials production company when he was 16 years old, Simon Hayes moved into the sound department as an assistant and then boom operator before mixing his first feature film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, at the age of 27. Hayes was the production sound mixer for the 2012 epic period musical film Les Misérables, for which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him the Oscar for Best Sound Mixing at the 85th Academy Awards, alongside Andy Nelson and Mark Paterson. The director, Tom Hooper, required all singing in the film to be recorded live, which was widely deemed to be impracticable. Hayes and his team undertook complex recording, editing, and mixing processes to achieve Hooper's aim. They captured recordings of the actors amidst loud film sets, edited the vocals, then overdubbed the orchestration.
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Filmography
all 57
Movies 56
TV Shows 1

Wicked: Part Two (2025)

Disney's Snow White (2025)

Fountain of Youth (2025)

Wicked (2024)

Argylle (2024)

The Little Mermaid (2023)

No Time to Die (2021)

Cats (2019)

Yesterday (2019)

Aladdin (2019)

Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

Eat Locals (2017)

Life (2017)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

Allied (2016)

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

The Counselor (2013)

Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

Trance (2013)

Why We Laugh: Funny Women (2013)

Les Misérables (2012)

Prometheus (2012)

Bel Ami (2012)

X-Men: First Class (2011)

Kick-Ass (2010)

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)

Green Zone (2010)

Harry Brown (2009)

Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)

Franklyn (2008)

Mamma Mia! (2008)

The Bank Job (2008)

Incendiary (2008)

Stardust (2007)

28 Weeks Later (2007)

Sixty Six (2006)

Copying Beethoven (2006)

Nanny McPhee (2005)

Revolver (2005)

Layer Cake (2004)

The Calcium Kid (2004)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

If Only (2004)

Swept Away (2002)

Mean Machine (2001)

Snatch (2000)

Fanny & Elvis (1999)

Tube Tales (1999)

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Teenage Health Freak (1991)
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday2000-01-01 (25 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Sound
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