Sean O'Neil Bio
Sean O’Neil is an international award winning location sound mixer who loves working on cinéma vérité documentaries but also works in narrative film, episodic television, commercials, sound design, music engineering and composition, as well as podcast producing and engineering. He has spent a large part of his career traveling the world recording sound for the acclaimed British Broadcast Corporation’s documentary unit. In addition to being part of the BAFTA winning sound team for the film “David Bowie: Five Years,” he won the prestigious Cinema Audio Society’s (C.A.S.) Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for his work on the BBC documentary “David Bowie: Finding Fame”. He was previously nominated for another (C.A.S) award for Outstanding Sound Mixing For Television for his work with Sir Paul McCartney on the documentary “Wingspan”, as well as personally being nominated for a BAFTA for Best Sound Mixing: Factual on the BBC documentary “David Bowie: The Last Five Years”. In addition to his work on the Oscar nominated documentary “RBG,” Sean has worked with multiple BAFTA, Emmy, Golden Globe and Sundance Award winners, and has had the privilege of mixing sound for 18 Academy Award nominated or winning filmmakers. They include the late Sydney Pollack and Mike Nichols in addition to Julie Cohen & Betsy West, Laura Poitras, Joe Berlinger, Cynthia Wade, Julie Taymor, Liz Garbus, Kirby Dick, Terri Randall, Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Sam Green, Roman Coppola, Fisher Stevens, Charles Ferguson, Christian Frei, and Lauren Greenfield.
In addition to his overseas work with the BBC, he has worked on documentaries for Al Jazeera Television, Japanese (NHK), Italian (RAI), German (ZDF), Scottish (STV), Irish (RTE), French, and Canadian (CBC) television. In America he routinely works for HBO, PBS, WGBH, WNET, Bill Moyers, Frontline, American Experience, Nova, Discovery, and National Geographic programs
Musically he has engineered multi-track performances for Sir Paul McCartney, Bjork, Allen Toussaint, Blossom Dearie, Dr John, The Strypes, Itzhak Perlman, Helen Huang, Mose Allison, Rickie Lee Jones, and the Jurassic 5.
He served as a sound design consultant for Gulliver’s Gate, a 49,000 square foot indoor interactive amusement park in New York City’s Times Square as well as a designing and recording sound effects for video games.
He’s recently recorded Ambisonic recordings for the filmmaker Sam Green for his film “A Film About Listening” about the avant garde composer and sound designer Annea Lockwood, and for his immersive live musical performance film “32 Sounds.”
Sean O’Neil is an award winning location sound mixer who loves working on cinéma vérité documentaries, narrative film, episodic television, commercials, sound design, podcast producing, music engineering and composition.
He has spent a large part of his career traveling the world recording sound for the acclaimed British Broadcast Corporation’s documentary unit. In addition to being part of the BAFTA winning sound team for “David Bowie: Five Years,” he won the prestigious Cinema Audio Society’s (C.A.S.) Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for his work on the BBC documentary “David Bowie: Finding Fame”. He was previously nominated for another C.A.S award for Outstanding Sound Mixing For Television for his work with Sir Paul McCartney on the documentary “Wingspan”, as well as personally being nominated for a BAFTA for Best Sound Mixing: Factual on the BBC documentary “David Bowie: The Last Five Years”. In addition to his work on the Oscar nominated documentary “RBG,” Sean has worked with multiple BAFTA, Emmy, Golden Globe and Sundance Award winners, and has had the privilege of mixing sound for 18 Academy Award nominated or winning filmmakers. They include the late Sydney Pollack and Mike Nichols in addition to Julie Cohen & Betsy West, Laura Poitras, Joe Berlinger, Cynthia Wade, Julie Taymor, Liz Garbus, Kirby Dick, Terri Randall, Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Sam Green, Roman Coppola, Fisher Stevens, Charles Ferguson, Christian Frei, and Lauren Greenfield.
In addition to his international work abroad with the BBC, he has worked on documentaries for Al Jazeera Television, Japanese (NHK), Italian (RAI), German (ZDF), Scottish (STV), Irish (RTE), French, and Canadian (CBC) television. In America he routinely works for HBO, PBS, WGBH, WNET, Bill Moyers, Frontline, American Experience, Nova, Discovery, and National Geographic programs.
Musically he has engineered multi-track performances for Sir Paul McCartney, Bjork, Allen Toussaint, Blossom Dearie, Dr John, The Strypes, Itzhak Perlman, Helen Huang, Mose Allison, Rickie Lee Jones, and the Jurassic 5.
He served as a sound design consultant for Gulliver’s Gate, a 49,000 square foot indoor interactive amusement park in New York City’s Times Square as well as designing and recording sound effects for video games.
He recently recorded Ambisonic and Binaural recordings for the filmmaker Sam Green’s “A Film About Listening” about avant-garde composer and sound designer Annea Lockwood, and for his immersive live musical performance film “32 Sounds.”