Dean Hurley is an American composer, record producer, musician, sound designer, re-recording mixer, and songwriter.[1][2][3] He received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the third season of Twin Peaks.[4] He is best known for his frequent collaborations with director David Lynch.[5][6] Hurley has worked on many different types of films as a film score composer, sound supervisor, sound designer, re-recording mixer, sound mixer, and supervising sound editor. Notably he composed the film score of the 2023 feature film Divinity, along with DJ and record producer DJ Muggs.[7]
He produced for the Veils on their album Total Depravity (2016). In 2017, Hurley released the album Anthology Resource Vol. 1: △△, which features original material created for Twin Peaks, and in 2019 he released Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond on Sacred Bones Records.[8][9] He has worked with a variety of musicians aside from Lynch and the Veils, such as Romance, John Carpenter, Chromatics, Sky Ferreira, Zola Jesus, Gloria de Oliveira, Dlina Volny, Donovan, Trouble, Chrystabell, Jaye Jayle, Jorja Chalmers, Tiny Ruins, Sam Gendel, among others.
| Year | Title | Contribution | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Divinity | Composer, along with DJ Muggs | Feature film |
| 2020 | Happily | Sound designer and re-recording mixer | Feature film |
| 2020 | Looks That Kill | Composer | Feature film |
| 2019 | Flying Lotus Feat. David Lynch: Fire Is Coming | Sound designer | Video short |
| 2018 | Stuntman | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Documentary |
| 2018 | What Did Jack Do? | Composer and re-recording mixer | Short film |
| 2017 | Twin Peaks (season 3) | Sound mixer and supervising sound editor | TV series |
| 2017 | The Putin Interviews | Re-recording mixer | TV series |
| 2015 | The Music of David Lynch Benefit Concert | Re-recording mixer | TV special |
| 2014 | Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Feature film |
| 2014 | Duran Duran: Unstaged | Sound mixer | Video short |
| 2012 | Change Begins Within | Re-recording mixer | TV special |
| 2011 | Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Feature film |
| 2010 | Dior: Lady Blue Shanghai | Composer | Short film |
| 2009 | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Feature film |
| 2008 | Fight or Die | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | TV series |
| 2006 | Making 'The New World | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Documentary |
| 2006 | Inland Empire | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Feature film |
| Year | Result | Award | Category | Work | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Nominated | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special | Twin Peaks | [10] |
| Nominated | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or Movie | [11] | ||
| Nominated | Cinema Audio Society Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Movie or Mini-Series | [12] | ||
| Nominated | Motion picture Sound Editors | Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Music Score and Musical for Episodic Short Form Broadcast Media |
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