Christopher Barnett
Composer
Christopher Barnett is a re-recording mixer at Skywalker Sound, whose work spans documentary features, episodic television, animation, virtual reality, and special-venue projects, based at the renowned Northern California facility.
Barnett's documentary work includes Dirty Wars (2013), which earned the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing in a Documentary Feature Film, shared with Brandon Proctor. He later received Golden Reel nominations for Bully (2011), Racing Extinction (2015), Icarus (2017), The Apollo (2019), John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020), and Rebuilding Paradise (2020). His sound editing contributions have also been acknowledged for episodic nonfiction television, including Mars (2016), episode "Novo Mundo", which earned a Cinema Audio Society nomination shared with Roy Waldspurger and Jason Butler.
Beyond documentaries, Barnett has contributed to high-profile animation and franchise projects, receiving Golden Reel nominations for Despicable Me (2010), The Little Prince (2015), Ferdinand (2017), and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). He was part of the team that won the Golden Reel Award for Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series – Episode I (2019), a special venue project recognised for its comprehensive sound editing across effects, Foley, music, dialogue, and ADR. More recently, his work on Music by John Williams (2024) earned nominations from the Cinema Audio Society, the Primetime Emmy Awards, and the Motion Picture Sound Editors.
Barnett's documentary work includes Dirty Wars (2013), which earned the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing in a Documentary Feature Film, shared with Brandon Proctor. He later received Golden Reel nominations for Bully (2011), Racing Extinction (2015), Icarus (2017), The Apollo (2019), John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020), and Rebuilding Paradise (2020). His sound editing contributions have also been acknowledged for episodic nonfiction television, including Mars (2016), episode "Novo Mundo", which earned a Cinema Audio Society nomination shared with Roy Waldspurger and Jason Butler.
Beyond documentaries, Barnett has contributed to high-profile animation and franchise projects, receiving Golden Reel nominations for Despicable Me (2010), The Little Prince (2015), Ferdinand (2017), and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). He was part of the team that won the Golden Reel Award for Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series – Episode I (2019), a special venue project recognised for its comprehensive sound editing across effects, Foley, music, dialogue, and ADR. More recently, his work on Music by John Williams (2024) earned nominations from the Cinema Audio Society, the Primetime Emmy Awards, and the Motion Picture Sound Editors.
Filmography
| 2021 | Joy Womack: The White Swan · as Original Music Composer |
| 2012 | Black Smoke RisingOn Plex |
| 2026 | The Cat in the Hat · as Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2026 | Mother Mary · as Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2026 | The Plastic Detox · as Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2026 | Wonder Man · as Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2025 | In Your Dreams · as Foley Mixer |
| 2025 | Osiris · as Sound Editor |
| 2024 | Julia's Stepping Stones · as Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2024 | Music by John Williams · as Supervising Sound Editor |
| 2023 | Echo · as Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2023 | Willow: Behind the Magic · as Supervising Sound Editor |
| 2022 | Spin Me Round · as Sound Designer |
| 2021 | The Green Knight · as Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2020 | Come Away · as Sound Re-Recording MixerOn Plex |
| 2020 | Horse Girl · as Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2018 | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom · as Sound Effects Editor |
| 2017 | Ferdinand · as Foley Editor |
| 2017 | Icarus · as Sound Designer |
| 2017 | The Little Hours · as Supervising Sound EditorOn Plex |
| 2016 | Transpecos · as Sound Re-Recording MixerOn Plex |
| 2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant · as Adr Supervisor |
| 2015 | The Little Prince · as Supervising Sound Editor |
| 2015 | Ant-Man · as Dialogue Editor |
| 2014 | Rudderless · as Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2014 | Jeremy Jones' Higher · as Dialogue Editor |
| 2014 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes · as Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2014 | Regarding Susan Sontag · as Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier · as Dialogue Editor |
| 2013 | Despicable Me 2 · as Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2010 | Friends and Lovers · as Sound Editor |
| 2008 | Home Movie · as Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| 2008 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army · as Sound Designer |
| 2008 | The Judge and the General · as Sound Editor |
| 2007 | Into the Wild · as Sound Effects Editor |
| 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · as Sound Mix Technician |
| 2006 | Abominable · as Sound Re-Recording MixerOn Plex |