Background
Cooney was born in Glendale, California but then later moved to West Virginia.
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Tim Cooney
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Early At a young age, pursuing his desire to be musician, he joined the bluegrass band called the Canfields who were very well known at the time In West Virginia where he plays lead guitars. After struggling with his music career he quit and got accepted to the Ringling Brother Barnum and Baily Clown College. After graduating from the Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Baily clown college he worked as a clown on circus Vargas for a year but decided he wanted to train animals.
He trained animals for circuses, the Saint Louis Zoo, and then the film business. As animal training became politically incorrect Cooney decided it was time for another career change.
In 1976, Cooney started working as a boom man at Universal Studios. His first studio picture as production mixer was Blue Thunder for Columbia Pictures in 1981.
Cooney was the first production mixer in history to have sound on his own web page.
He had several animated items on his page as well, which had not been done at the time. The page has been taken down since his retirement. Cooney was a producer on the movie the November Conspiracy.
He also directed a few music videos, the most notable "About Love" with the singer Johnny Rivers.
Are you crazy? Tim Cooney has formed a musical duo called Cooney&Company and performs his show all over the world.
Achievements
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But one of his biggest works is for the movie Cliffhanger where he was nominated for an Academy Award. Cooney has received nominations for various awards that include an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound for Cliffhanger, three Emmys nominations, two Cinema Audio Society nominations Foreign Outstanding Achievement In Sound Mixing and three Golden Reel Award nominations. Cooney won the Golden Reel for best sound in 2000 and wrote a book entitled, Work in movies?.
Membership
Cooney sat twice on the board of directors of the Cinema Audio Society is still a member of the motion picture academy of arts and sciences and the television academy of arts and sciences.
