Roger Savage is a British-born Australiansound engineer of music and film.He engineered some of the most important Australian popular music recordings of the 1960s, and worked on many acclaimed films from the 1980s onwards. He was nominated for anOscar for his work onMoulin Rouge! in 2002.

Roger Savage worked atOlympic Studios in London, where he had recordeddemos withMick Jagger andDusty Springfield.^[1]

After marrying an Australian woman,^[1] Savage moved from England to Australia.^[2][3] In January 1964, he recorded a song at Telefil Studios^[1] (on the site of what became Memo Music Hall^[4]), "I Belong With You", by Bobby Bright and Laurie Allen, which topped the Melbourne music charts for two weeks.^[1]

Savage worked with Bill Armstrong atArmstrong's Studios inMelbourne, eventually becoming a partner.^[1] There he met New Zealand-born sound engineerJohn Sayers, who arrived fromSydney in 1968.^[5] Bill Armstrong said that Savage helped to train many engineers and producers at his studios, including engineers Allan Pay, Ernie Rose, John Sayers, and Graeme Owens, and producersIan "Molly" Meldrum,Howard Gable,Robie Porter, andRon Tudor.^[1]

Savage engineered some of the most important Australian popular music recordings of the 1960s, including classic tracks byThe Twilights,MPD Ltd,The Masters Apprentices, andSpectrum, as well as innumerable radio and TV commercials.^[2][3] He also started working on films in the 1970s. One of his earliest film credits was as an audio engineer onGetting Back to Nothing,Tim Burstall's documentary of the 1970World Surfing Championships staged atBells Beach, Victoria.^[3][6]

After Armstrong's transitioned into Armstrong Audio Visual (AAV), which was bought byThe Age newspaper group, Savage stayed at AAV for some time, but wanted to establish his own studio focused solely on music. With this in mind, he and a business partner bought a vacant block of land in Bank Street, but owing to poor economic circumstances in the 1980s a new studio did not materialise. Savage left AAV in the early 1980s to do freelance work infilm production, and was hired to work onReturn of the Jedi, released in 1983.^[1]

Savage was co-winner of theAFI Award for Best Achievement in Sound in 1979 (Mad Max), 1982 (Mad Max 2), 1984 (Street Hero), 1986 (Malcolm), 1987 (Ground Zero), 1989 (Dead Calm), 1990 (Blood Oath), 1994 (Muriel's Wedding), 1996 (Shine), and 2001 (Moulin Rouge!).^[7]

In 1984, Savage was awarded theByron Kennedy Award (anAACTA) "for his innovative and pioneering work in film and television sound".^[8]

Also in 1984, he won theAustralian Film Institute Jury Prize.^[7]

Savage won aBAFTA Award for Best Sound in 1996 (forShine) and 2001 (Moulin Rouge!). He was also nominated for the award in 1992 (JFK), 1997 (Romeo + Juliet), and 2004 (House of Flying Daggers).^[9]

In 2001 he was awarded theCentenary Medal, "For service to Australian society and Australian film production".^[10]

In 2002, he was nominated for anAcademy Award in the categoryBest Sound for the filmMoulin Rouge!.^[11]

In 2013, he was awarded theJohn Howie Award for Outstanding Leadership, Achievement and Service to the Victorian Screen Industry, byFilm Victoria.^[12]

• Moulin Rouge! (2001)
• Shine (1996)
• Babe (1995)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• The Pirate Movie (1982)
• Mad Max (1979)

• Roger Savage atIMDb

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• Australian audio engineers
• Best Sound BAFTA Award winners

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