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Philip Stockton

sound editor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7184429
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Philip Stockton is a sound editor.

Biography

On February 26, 2012, he won an Academy Award for the movie Hugo. He also won a 2011 BAFTA for his work on that film and also won Emmy Award for Boardwalk Empire. This film also earned Stockton and Gearty a British Academy Film Award for Best Sound, along with Tom Fleischman and John Midgley. In 2013, he and Gearty were nominated for another Academy Award and (along with Drew Kunin and Ron Bartlett ) another British Academy Film Award for their work on Life of Pi, and won a Golden Reel Award from the Motion Picture Sound Editors Society with Kenton Jakub . Stockton is also the recipient of an Emmy for his work on Boardwalk Empire, as well as three other Golden Reel Awards, and has been nominated for three other Emmys, two other British Academy Film Awards, and four other Golden Reel Awards.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Philip Stockton” as sound editor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2011, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Philip, Stockton and sound can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as sound editor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7184429. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2011 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from Philip Stockton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.