Neil Hillman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Neil Hillman
Occupation	Sound Designer
Date Of Birth	Jan 31, 1960(1960-01-31)
Age	64
Birthplace	Sutton Coldfield
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Neil Hillman Biography

Neil Hillman is one of the most popular and richest Sound Designer who was born on January 31, 1960 in Sutton Coldfield, England, United Kingdom. Born 31 January 1960 in Sutton Coldfield, England, Dr Neil Hillman MPSE is a British TV and feature film sound designer and editor. He is most well-known for his work on the Oscar winning films Lincoln, New York I Love You, and Grace of Monaco. Hillman won the World Medal for sound design at the New York Festival for The 13th Day (2010) and was also awarded the Royal Television Society award for the Best Production Craft Skills for Sound Design & Mixing on Handle With Care in November 2010.

Hillman was appointed Head of Sound at Optical Image in 1999. Hillman established the post-production sound department of a joint animation venture with Mike Young Productions called Butt Ugly Martians. This 26-part production was produced by Hillman alongside Bill Schultz (who is best known for his role in producing the animated series The Simpsons and King of the Hill). Hillman was the Sound Designer for Butt Ugly Martians, and also re-recording mixer. He collaborated with Rick Hinson MPSE, multiple Emmy-winning Sound Editor on episodes 1 and 2.

In 2001, Hillman was asked to become a member of a small team of writers for a new professional audio magazine called Resolution, assembled by ex-Studio Sound Editor Zenon Schoepe. Hillman went on to contribute regularly to ‘Resolution’ magazine for over ten years, commencing with its first issue, writing on modern sound production and reviewing equipment.

Hillman left Optical Image in 2002 to form his own audio post-production studios, The Audio Suite. Between 2002 and 2012, The Audio Suite worked as preferred audio suppliers to All3Media, the UK’s largest television Production Group, and they were also suppliers to the terrestrial channels of BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel Five and the digital channels BBC Three, BBC Four, ITV4, National Geographic and Discovery. During this time Hillman and The Audio Suite worked on some of the most popular shows on UK television, including Channel Five’s The Gadget Show, as well as contributing ADR (also known as dubbing) to prestigious TV dramas such as Spooks, Hustle and Survivors for the BBC.

Hillman began writing regular articles for Studio Sound magazine in 1997. He also wrote for other industry titles like Audio Media, TVB Europe and Line Up and Screen. Hillman has occasionally written for mainstream publications like BBC Top Gear magazine.

Neil Hillman Net Worth

Neil Hillman is one of the richest Sound Designer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Neil Hillman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hillman started his career with Cincinnati Milacron as an electronics engineer. After his apprenticeship, he graduated in 1981 from the University of Aston with a degree in Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation. He had previously studied Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at Matthew Boulton College and North Birmingham Polytechnic. (Now Birmingham City University). Under the guidance of Dr. Sandra Pauletto, he completed his PhD in Practice at the University of York’s Department of Theatre, Film and Television. He researched Emotion in Sound Design.

Hillman, who had completed his foundation degree in Electrical Engineering and an apprenticeship in Electrical Engineering, joined Central Independent Television, a Midlands-based television station, in 1982 as a sound technician. He worked on all aspects broadcast audio. In 1989, Hillman left Central TV to become a freelance location sound recordist, dubbing mixer and broadcast sound supervisor. He contributed to many long-running BBC TV series’s, including The Antiques Roadshow, where he introduced stereo location recording to that program. He also traveled extensively overseas to record sound for programs such as Tomorrow’s World or Top Gear. And he recorded and mixed choral music in location for Songs of Praise.

Between 2000 and 2001, he both location recorded and then audio post-produced a four-part series for Discovery, called Beyond The Horizon, which documented a year in the lives of a group of RAF pilots as they attempted to qualify for the elite Red Arrows display team. The year spent working alongside such excellence, Hillman later said, would irrevocably focus his determination and commitment to achieve similar levels of quality and professionalism in his own work.

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As well as his operational work of sound designing, editing and mixing, Hillman consults to Production Companies and Broadcasters on strategic planning for projects with complex workflow and delivery requirements, with clients such as the Olympic Broadcasting Services and UEFA. He worked as an Audio Mixer and as Commentary Control Liaison at the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, the Foreign Commentary Broadcast Liaison (CCR) for the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final, Sound Supervisor for Boxing at the 2014 XX Glasgow Commonwealth Games, Commentary Control Liaison at the Rio 2016 Olympics and as part of the team installing and operating the Commentary Switching Centre within the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

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Neil Ranked on the list of most popular Sound Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Neil Hillman celebrates birthday on January 31 of every year.

His PhD research resulted in three academic papers: ‘The Craftsman: the use of sound design to elicit emotions’ was presented at the University of Ulster’s Cinesonika 3 conference in February 2013, and in July 2013 Hillman presented ‘Organic and free-range sound design’ at the University of York’s International Sound Symposium. Both papers have subsequently been published, with ‘Organic and free range sound design’ published by Edinburgh University Press in edition 4.2 of The New Soundtrack and ‘The Craftsman: the use of sound design to elicit emotions’ published by Intellect in edition 7.1 of The Soundtrack. In March 2016 ‘Audio Imagineering: Utilising the Four Sound Areas Framework for Emotive Sound Design within Contemporary Audio Post-production’ was published by Edinburgh University Press in edition 6.1 of The New Soundtrack.