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71 ANNUAL st 12 M PS E . O R G an example of excellence for others. Past winners include 2023 recipient Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Anthony "Chic" Ciccolini III, Dennis Drummond, Cece Hall, Stephen H. Flick, John Paul Fasal, Harry Cohen, Richard King, Skip Lievsay, Randy Thom, Larry Singer, Walter Murch, and George Watters II. Davis has been a sound designer and sound editor for more than 40 years with more than 180 film, television, and game credits. He founded and helmed Danetracks, a company that produced highly creative sound for a wide range of projects and mentored many passionate young people into careers in post-production audio through its esteemed internship program. Along with his Oscar for The Matrix, he has won four Golden Reel Awards (with nine more nominations), alongside a BAFTA Award, and two Emmy Award nominations. A frequent collaborator of the Wachowski sisters, he has supervised sound for all the films in The Matrix series, concluding with Matrix Resurrections in 2021, as well as Speed Racer, Sense8, Bound, and Jupiter Ascending. Other recent supervision credits include Reptile, Expats, Retribution, Allen v Farrow, Jupiter's Legacy, Messiah, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 8 Mile and Ender's Game. He also contributed sound design to 24 films, including Black Adam last year. Early career highlights include Defending Your Life, Cabin in the Woods, Ghost Rider, Gotti, Drugstore Cowboy, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Forever Young, Romeo Is Bleeding, and Boogie Nights. He is also an accomplished voiceover actor where his credits include Treasure Planet (as the character "Morph") and The Animatrix.