Brother of sound effects editor Jay Boekelheide.Todd Boekelheide began his work in film in 1974 as a member of American Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola's San Francisco production company. In 1976 he was assistant editor on STAR WARS and edited picture and sound for THE BLACK STALLION two years later. This film sparked Boekelheide's interest in film music and he began music studies at Mills College in Oakland shortly thereafter. He won an Oscar® for mixing the music in AMADEUS in 1984 and has scored several feature films, including DIM SUM (1985), DEADLY DREAMS (1988), WALDO SALT: A SCREENWRITER'S JOURNEY (1990), SHIMMER (1993), NINA TAKES A LOVER (1994), , REGRET TO INFORM (1998), SPIN (2003), BALLETS RUSSES (2005) and, most notably, HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE (1991).  Nominated for Sound 1983: NEVER CRY WOLF (w. Alan R. Splet, Randy Thom & David Parker)  Sound 1984: AMADEUS (w. Mark Berger, Tom Scott & Chris Newman) 2 nominations, 1 Award