Film Industry Role: Sound supervisor and designer, and re-recording mixer
Nationality: North American
Major Works: Stranger Things (2019) and The Batman (2022)
Major Awards and Nominations: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series
As a sound supervisor, sound designer, and re-recording mixer, Will Files has contributed to more than 100 films and TV shows, including such Hollywood blockbusters as the recently released The Batman, The Invisible Man, Venom, Halloween, War for the Planet of the Apes, Passengers, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Star Trek Into Darkness, Thor: The Dark World, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and Cloverfield, in addition to the much-loved show Stranger Things, which gave him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series. He has also contributed to highly regarded independent films Honey Boy, Midnight Special, Mud and Take Shelter. In 2007, the Hollywood Reporter named Files one of the industry’s “brightest and most talented 35-and-under artisans”.