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Harry Cohen (born 5 August 1954; age 69) is a sound engineer who served as a sound designer on Star Trek Nemesis, along with Tim Walston and Jim Wolvington. He returned to the franchise working again as a sound designer on Star Trek along with Ann Scibelli, Walston, Scott Gershin, and Geoff Rubay. For his work on that film, he shared a Golden Reel Award nomination for "Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film".

He is a four time Emmy Award nominee, including two for his work on Kurtzman-era Star Trek (PIC: "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" and DIS: "That Hope Is You, Part 1"), Godless, and The Others (with Mace Matiosian and Guy Tsujimoto).

Other Star Trek works by Cohen include sound design on Star Trek: Picard, the animated "Ephraim and Dot" episode of Star Trek: Short Treks, and the third season opening episode "That Hope Is You, Part 1" of Star Trek: Discovery, which netted him three additional Golden Reel Award (co-)nominations in 2021, co-winning him the one for Picard.

Career[]

Cohen also served as sound designer on the cult science fiction series Babylon 5, four of the five Babylon 5 TV movies, and the Babylon 5 spin-off Crusade. Feature film credits not listed above include Menace II Society, The Mask, Mortal Kombat, Spawn, Starship Troopers, Blade, The Blair Witch Project, The Perfect Storm, Scooby-Doo, and Snakes on a Plane.

The Star Trek Golden Reel Award nominations were but four of the many nominations for that award, as he had won six Golden Reel Awards through the years. Some of those nominations included his sound editing work on the films and TV series The Patriot, A Texas Funeral, xXx, Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, The Day After Tomorrow, Memoirs of a Geisha, World Trade Center, The Others (with Eric Williams), and Blood Diamond. He and his sound team won the award for A Texas Funeral and Godless. He shared and won a fourth Emmy Award nomination for his work on the 2019 Watchmen TV show on the episode "This Extraordinary Being".

Star Trek awards[]

For his work on Star Trek Harry Cohen received the following award and nominations in the various sound editing categories.

Emmy Awards[]

Moore received the following Emmy Award nominations in the category Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour)

Golden Reel Award[]

Cohen received the following Golden Reel Award win and nominations in the various sound editing categories

  • 2010 Golden Reel Award nomination in the category "Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film" for Star Trek, shared with Mark P. Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin, Ben Burtt, Ann Scibelli, Tim Walston, Thomas W. Small, David Barbee, Charlie Campagna, Scott Martin Gershin, Glenn T. Morgan, Geoffrey G. Rubay, Ben Wilkins, Robin Harlan, and Sarah Monat
  • 2021 Golden Reel Award nomination for ST: "Ephraim and Dot" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Animation Short Form", shared with Matthew E. Taylor, Tim Farrell, Moira Marquis, Stan Jones, and Sean Heissinger
  • 2021 Golden Reel Award win for PIC: "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Episodic Long Form – Effects and Foley", shared with Matthew E. Taylor, Tim Farrell, Michael Schapiro, Clayton Weber, Darrin Mann, Alyson Dee Moore, and Christopher Moriana
  • 2021 Golden Reel Award nomination for DIS: "That Hope Is You, Part 1" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Episodic Long Form – Effects and Foley", shared with Matthew E. Taylor, Tim Farrell, Harry Cohen, Michael Schapiro , Clayton Weber , and Darrin Mann
  • 2022 Golden Reel Award nomination for DIS: "Kobayashi Maru" in the category "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Series One Hour – Effects/Foley", shared with Matthew E. Taylor, Michael Schapiro, Katie Halliday, Andrew Twite, Clayton Weber, Alyson Dee Moore, Christopher Moriana

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