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Christopher Scarabosio

Sound Editor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ16875334 ↗
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Christopher Scarabosio is a sound editor who started working in sound on Gumby Adventures (1988) as a Sound Effects Assistant, and later as a Sound Editor on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He usually works at Skywalker Sound.

He was nominated at the 80th Academy Awards for the film There Will Be Blood in the category of Best Sound Editing, shared with Matthew Wood. He has, also, received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, for his work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens (with Andy Nelson and Stuart Wilson), and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (with David Parker and, again, Stuart Wilson).

Filmography

He has worked on over 100 films to date since 1992 including...

Volcano – Sound Effects Editor

Titan A.E. – Sound Effects Editor/Assistant Sound Designer/Voice of the Drej Queen

Titanic – Sound Effects Editor

Young Indiana Jones (TV show and movies) – Sound Editor, Sound Designer (uncredited?)

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace – Sound Effects Editor/Voice of Neimoidian Senator

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones – Sound FU, Additional Sound Effects (uncredited?)

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith – Dialogue Editor/Re-Recording Mixer

Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV show – Re-Recording Mixer (season 1 & 4) and Sound Editor (Shades of Reason)

Hellboy – Sound Effects Editor

Pearl Harbor – Sound Editor, Sound Design Editor (uncredited?)

Armageddon – Sound Editor

Avatar – Sound Effects Editor

Tron Legacy – Sound Effects Editor

Whip It – Supervising Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixer

Ice Age: The Meltdown – Sound Mixing

Eragon – Additional Re-Recording Mixer

Gumby Adventures – Sound Effects Assistant

The Simpsons Movie – Sound Designer/Additional Re-Recording Mixer

Despicable Me – Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixer

Despicable Me 2 – Sound Designer/Additional Re-Recording Mixer

Minions – Sound Designer/Re-Recording Mixer

Zoom – Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Mixer

In God's Hands – Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor (uncredited roles)

Lilo & Stitch – Sound Effects Editor, Additional Sound Effects (uncredited?)

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Supervising Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer

Junun – Re-Recording Mixer

There Will Be Blood – Sound Designer, Additional Re-Recording Mixer (uncredited?)

The Master – Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixer

Inherent Vice – Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixer

Munich – Sound Effects Editor/Re-Recording Mixer

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – Additional Sound Design/Re-Recording Mixer

The Investigator (1994 TV Movie) – Dialogue Editor

Partly Cloudy – Sound Designer

The Pardon – Sound Designer/Re-Recording Mixer

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Sound Designer/Re-Recording Mixer

Chef – Sound Effects Editor

Hanna – Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixer

The Soloist – Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixer

References

External links

Christopher Scarabosio at IMDb

"Comedy... It's an interesting thing to try and nail down".

"Chris Scarabosio's Skywalker Sound page".

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Christopher Scarabosio” is sound Editor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Christopher, Scarabosio and Sound, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1992, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-07-30. For this dossier, Christopher, Scarabosio and Sound is the immediate research focus.
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