After more than three decades at Sony Pictures Entertainment, famed sound vet Tom “Tommy” McCarthy is retiring as Executive Vice President of Post-Production Facilities. With the transition, Kimberly Jimenez was promoted to senior vice president of post-production services.
imenez is a 30-year-old sound vet who joined Sony in 2018, after working in sound at NBC Universal, Soundelux and Todd-AO. “I look forward to seeing Kimberly’s continued leadership and commitment to our world-class postproduction team and facilities,” Jon Hookstratten, executive vice president of administration and operations, wrote in a note. Thursday service in which he announced the news.
“Tommy is a legend in the business,” Hookstratten wrote of the retired executive, noting that during McCarthy’s 32 years at Sony he “led the studio’s writing and mixing departments, built the reputation of SPE as a destination for post-production services and created an environment where creative talent could flourish.
McCarthy began his career as a sound editor on classic TV shows such as How the West Was Conquered, FRIES and Logan’s Race. In 1992, he won an Oscar for sound editing for Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
He has also served the community as a past president of MPSE (Motion Picture Sound Editors) and a member of the Motion Picture Academy and the Television Academy. He is a former board member of the Academy’s sound branch.
The postal business was part of his family. McCarthy’s father, Thomas J. McCarthy, was a picture editor who became executive vice president of worldwide postproduction for Columbia Pictures. His wife, Roxanne, worked as a sound editor and supervising sound editor for many years.