Multi-award-winning sound designer Wayne Pashley has worked with Baz Luhrmann since 1992’s Strictly Ballroom, and on films such as Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). He is currently nominated for an Oscar as re-recording mixer, sound designer, and supervising sound editor for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (2022), with the Academy Awards ceremony taking place on 23 March. Here, he discusses his role in creating the soundscape of that film.
About two and a half years ago, he rang with his producing team, and they turned up at our door [Big Bang Sound Design] in Sydney. Baz started pitching the story and what the plan was, and it was a phenomenal … I saw the wheels already turning with the prospect of sound for Elvis – the music, the crowds, the cars, everything …
