Born in Istanbul, Turkey. A motion picture sound pioneer who began at Columbia Pictures in 1928 -- a year after THE JAZZ SINGER was filmed. He won three Oscars® for Sound Recording: ONE NIGHT OF LOVE (1934) as sound director of Columbia's sound department, THE JOLSON STORY (1946), and FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953). Livadary was also recognized by the Academy between 1937 and 1954 with four Scientific and Technical Awards for the patents he held on magnetic tape and multi-track recording systems. He was known as the technician's technician. Originally moving to the United States after studying medicine in Greece, he served in the Army and then attended MIT, from which he graduated with advanced degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics. Livadary went to work for Bell Laboratories for four years, spent six months at Paramount, and then began his long tenure at Columbia. His work on ONE NIGHT OF LOVE innovated the way opera arias were recorded for motion pictures. Livadary and his assistants put the arias on "hill and dale" records, so called because the grooves are cut in different vertical depth instead of side-by-side. In the 1933 Motion Picture Almanac, Livadary stated, "Sound perspective is highly important and is a comparatively recent improvement in motion pictures... Such perspective makes the voice have just the right volume and quality for whatever distance the player may be from the camera."  Sound Recording 1934: ONE NIGHT OF LOVE as Sound Director at Columbia (w. Paul Neal, sound recordist)  Nominated for Sound Recording 1935: LOVE ME FOREVER  Nominated for Sound Recording 1936: MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN  Nominated for Sound Recording 1937: LOST HORIZON  Scientific/Technical Award Class III 1937 as Director of Sound Recording for Colubmia: For the application of the bi-planar light valve to motion picture sound recording.  Nominated for Sound Recording 1938: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU  Nominated for Sound Recording 1939: MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON  Nominated for Sound Recording 1940: TOO MANY HUSBANDS  Nominated for Sound Recording 1941: THE MEN IN HER LIFE  Nominated for Sound Recording 1942: YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER  Nominated for Sound Recording 1943: SAHARA  Nominated for Sound Recording 1944: COVER GIRL  Nominated for Sound Recording 1945: A SONG TO REMEMBER  Sound Recording 1946: THE JOLSON STORY  Scientific or Technical Awards (Class II) 1950: For the development of a multi-track magnetic re-recording system. (w. Floyd Campbell & L. W. Russell of Columbia Studio Sound Department)  Scientific or Technical Awards (Class III) 1954: For an improved limiting amplifier as applied to sound level comparison devices. (w. Lloyd Russell of the Columbia Studio Sound Department)  Nominated for Sound Recording 1956: THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY 13 nominations, 2 Awards, 3 Scientific/Technical Awards