Nathan Levinson (July 15, 1888 – October 18, 1952) was an Americansound engineer. He won anOscar in the categorySound Recording for the filmYankee Doodle Dandy^[1] and was nominated for 16 more in the same category. He was also nominated seven times in the categoryBest Special Effects.

The Oscar statue that Levinson won forYankee Doodle Dandy was sold for nearly $90,000 at an auction inDallas in July 2011.^[2]

Levinson won an Academy Award and was nominated for 16 more in the category Best Sound. He was also nominated seven times for Best Special Effects:

Won

• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)^[1]

Nominated (Best Sound)

• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)^[3]
• 42nd Street (1933)^[3]
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)^[3]
• Flirtation Walk (1934)^[4]
• Captain Blood (1935)^[5]
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)^[6]
• The Life of Emile Zola (1937)^[7]
• Four Daughters (1938)^[8]
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)^[9]
• The Sea Hawk (1940)^[10]
• Sergeant York (1941)^[11]
• This Is the Army (1943)^[12]
• Hollywood Canteen (1944)^[13]
• Rhapsody in Blue (1945)^[14]
• Johnny Belinda (1948)^[15]
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)^[16]

Nominated (Best Special Effects)

• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)^[9]
• The Sea Hawk (1940)^[10]
• The Sea Wolf (1941)^[11]
• Desperate Journey (1942)^[1]
• Air Force (1943)^[12]
• The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)^[13]
• A Stolen Life (1946)

• Nathan Levinson atIMDb
• Nathan Levinson atFind a Grave

• 1888 births
• 1952 deaths
• Academy Honorary Award recipients
• American audio engineers
• Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners
• Engineers from New York City
• Academy Award for Technical Achievement winners
• 20th-century American people

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