Dane A. Davis
- Sound Department
- Actor
- Music Department
Dane A. Davis, as Sound Designer / Supervising Sound Editor, has completed 120 feature films since 1984 including Drugstore Cowboy, Boogie Nights, Romeo is Bleeding, Don Juan DeMarco, The Matrix Trilogy, Speed Racer, 8 Mile, Cabin in the Woods, Lord of War, Ghost Rider, Defending Your Life, The Forgotten and Ender's Game as well as Streaming series including Sense8, Messiah and Jupiter's Legacy. He has also contributed sound design to 25 other movies such as Black Adam, Ninja Assassin and Bullet to the Head. Dane's voice is the major character of "Morph" in Disney's animated Treasure Planet.
He was born and grew up east of San Diego, studied art and photography at Grossmont College and graduated from the Film & Video School of California Institute of the Arts.
Recent projects include Jupiter Ascending, Twilight-Breaking Dawn, Fifty Shades Darker and Freed, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Bleeding Edge, Sinister, On the Record, My Name is Dolemite, and Allen v. Farrow (earning an Emmy nomination) and most recently The Matrix Resurrections, Retribution, Reptile and Expats.
Through the internship program of his company, Danetracks, and since, Dane mentored many passionate and gifted young people over more than three decades and has been thrilled to see them flourish in the post-production sound world.
He has lectured as a guest artist on the artistic, dramatic and psychological aspects of sound design to various audiences including the Game Developers Conference, USC, UCLA, CalArts, SCAD and the "Big Movie Sound" MPSE presentation at the Egyptian Theater.
While continuing his visual art work as a painter and photographer he mixes and contributes sound design for "experimental" filmmakers including Betzy Bromberg. He also plays multiple instruments, composes and has music in several films.
Dane received an Academy Award, BAFTA and MPSE Golden Reel for his work on The Matrix. He also received Golden Reels for Treasure Planet, Gotti and others. In March of 2024 he will receive the MPSE Career Achievement Award.
