Simon Hayes

Simon Hayes was awarded an Oscar for Sound Mixing on Tom Hooper's Les Miserables. His work on Les Miserables was also honoured with the BAFTA for Sound and the CAS award for Achievement in Sound Mixing. Recent feature credits include Cary Fukunaga's Bond 25, Tom Hooper's Cats, Guy Ritchie's Aladdin and Rob Marshall's Mary Poppins Returns. He has collaborated regularly with director Matthew Vaughn on Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick Ass and X-Men: First Class and Kingsman:The Secret Service.He has also collaborated numerous times with Guy Ritchie on Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, King Arthur:Knights of the Round Table and recently, Aladdin. Other varied film credits include David Yates' Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Ridley Scott's Prometheus and The Counselor, Danny Boyle's Yesterday and Trance, Daniel Barber's Harry Brown, Paul Greengrass's Green Zone, Phyllida Lloyd's Mamma Mia!, Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead. Additional Awards include the UK Screen Association's Conch Award for Production Sound Mixer of the Year in 2008, 2009 and 2012.Simon also received the Golden Reel Award in 2002 for Best Sound on Snatch. He was born in London and began his career in the film industry when he was 16, working as a runner in a Commercials production company.At 18 he moved into the sound department as an assistant and then Boom Operator.He mixed his first feature film at 27 years old.