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M OT I O N P I CTU R E S O U N D E D I TO R S I 13 Andrew Patterson, Award-Winning Sound Editor PASSED AWAY AT AGE 72 Andy Patterson MPSE died on December 23, 2020, as a result of complications related to COVID -19. He was born outside of London in 1948 and at 17, began a lifelong career in film editing at Pinewood Studios. His career would take him to Rome, New York, Toronto, Tel Aviv, and Los Angeles, where he lived for more than 30 years. Andy's specialties included dialogue editing, ADR, and Foley. Over the course of his career, Andy worked on more than 75 films with legendary filmmakers such as Sam Peckinpah, Marcel Ophuls, Philippe Mora, John Glen, Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, Peter Weir, James Brooks, Hal Ashby, William Friedkin, Tony Scott, Penny Marshall, Amy Heckerling, Rob Cohen, John Frankenheimer, Joe Carnahan, and Rian Johnson, among others. Andrew was a member of both the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild, and he won Golden Reels from the MPSE for his work on Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Top Gun (1986), and Aladdin (1992). Reminiscing on his work, award-winning sound supervisor Mark Mangini MPSE said: "Andrew was an excellent dialogue editor who brought humor and that British 'can do' attitude to everything he did. I remember him taking on the editing of the genie's banter in Aladdin, a task few wanted or could manage. Built like a ransom note from literally L-R: Andy Patterson, Donald Flick, Mark Mangini, Joey Mangini (holding trophy), James "Jimmy" Melton, Mark A. Hester. hundreds of snippets of improvised phrases, Andrew painstakingly reconstructed the work tracks from the digital masters in an e€ort not unlike the cracking of the Enigma Code. But Andy truly endeared himself to me because of his thorough Britishness, which I adored. Walking into his edit room was more like entering a seaside cottage, replete with teapots whistling, a lovely symphony on the radio, and rugs underfoot. With his shaggy hair, it felt more like one had entered Bilbo's home in Hobbiton."