Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ben Burtt created the sound of my childhood. He gets that a lot. "Yeah, I hear that often," says the legendary sound designer, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Locarno Film Festival will honor multiple Oscar winner Ben Burtt — the sound designer, editor and voice actor behind the 'Star ...

So much goes into making the signature weapon of the "Star Wars" franchise, the lightsaber, special. The colorful blades, the wide variety of hilts, their unique appearances and functions — so many ...

The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to award-winning Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones sound engineer, editor and voice actor Ben Burtt at its upcoming 77th edition in ...

The four-time Oscar winner, creator of the iconic lightsaber swoosh and Darth Vader's mechanical breathing, will receive Locarno's Vision Award for "extending the horizons of cinema." By Scott ...

1977’s “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope” was one of the first films he worked on. It was Burtt who created the lightsaber’s famous hum, which he says came from a broken TV set and a film projector.