Biography
Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955, at Queen of Angels Hospital in Hollywood, California. Graduating from Loyola High School, Los Angeles in 1973, he studied Communication Arts and English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, earning a bachelors degree in 1977 with a double major in those two fields. Always fascinated by sound, he became an expert in remixing for movies. His first professionally recorded sound was on Roots (1977). Beemer was nominated for several Academy Awards, and as of 2007, has won Academy Awards for four films: Speed (1994), Gladiator (2000), Ray (2004), and Dreamgirls (2006).
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