Stephen Hunter Flick is a multiple Oscar-winning Sound Designer with an esteemed career spanning 35 years, having worked on some of the most beloved films in modern Hollywood history. He employs traditional as well as cutting-edge techniques to create the modern soundtrack. Flick challenges the entire sound effects team to work in a tight, collaborative manner, exchanging critique, processes and ideas to make the sound effects track more “organic” and logical to the sonic world of each individual picture.
Flick comes from a background in music, puppetry, and college theater with a B.A. from San Jose State, ‘71, and Graduate Studies in Cinema, USC, ‘75. He continues to play Jazz Saxophone and Flute in a number of traditional and contemporary ensembles. He has taught Saxophone and Sound Design professionally, and has been teaching at USC Cinema since 2013.