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Willie D. Burton is an American production sound mixer. In 1988, he won the Academy Award for Sound for Bird and in 2006 for Dreamgirls. He was nominated for the same award in 1978 for The Buddy Holly Story, in 1980 for Altered States, in 1983 for WarGames,in 1994 for The Shawshank Redemptionand in 1999 for Green Mile. He won a British Academy Award in 1983 for War Games.

Burton has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound or Best Achievement in Sound Mixing a total of seven times, winning twice; he has been nominated for two BAFTA Film Awards for Best Sound, winning once; and he was nominated for one Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing for his work on Roots.

As of 2010, Burton, sound engineer Russell Williams II and actor Denzel Washington are the only African-Americans that have won two Oscars.

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With his seventh Oscar nomination for Dreamgirls (2006) in 2007, Burton tied composer/producer

Quincy Jones  for the most Academy Award nominations by an African-American.

Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.