PAH-FEST Judges
RICHARD BEGGS
Richard Beggs, a sound designer and mixer on more than 60 feature films since 1976, has worked with Francis Coppola, Barry Levinson, Sophia Coppola, Alfonso Cuaron and other major directors. He won an Academy Award for sound for Apocalypse Now and a TEC Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Film Sound, and has received five Golden Reel sound nominations.
Beginning in 1988, in addition to his work on films, he created scores for three contemporary ballets, winning an Isadora Duncan Award for the ballet score of “The Awakening.”
Trained as a painter, Beggs received a B.F.A from the San Francisco Art Institute and an M.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts). He exhibited at SFMOMA, the Oakland Museum of Art and collaborated with the S.F. Museum of Conceptual Art.
Beggs continues to paint and teaches film sound as an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts. He is an associate fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University, and sits on the board of directors of the San Francisco Arts Education Project.
A native San Franciscan, Beggs has his sound studio at the San Francisco Film Centre in the Presidio of San Francisco. His recent projects include Marie Antoinette, released fall 2006, and Children of Men.