Editing • Mixing • ProductioN • for Visual and Auditory Media

Jim Schultz is an Emmy Award–winning music editor, mixer, and producer with nearly three decades of experience in music and film. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Jim discovered his passion for music early—playing guitar and piano, and collecting records with obsessive enthusiasm. He went on to study music theory, technology, and production at UCLA, launching his professional career as a freelance recording and mix engineer shortly thereafter.

In 1999, while working as a staff engineer at the iconic Nightbird Studios in West Hollywood, Jim’s path took a fortuitous turn toward film. Alongside legendary recording artists, Nightbird was also a hub for film composers and score mixers. Their influence sparked Jim’s deep interest in the world of film scoring, opening the door to a new creative frontier.

Since then, Jim has built a remarkable body of work, collaborating with acclaimed filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Charlie Kaufman, James Mangold, Jimmy Chin & Chai Vasarhelyi, Adam McKay, Davis Guggenheim, and Harold Ramis. His partnerships with composers are equally diverse, having worked with Marco Beltrami, Jon Brion, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Alexandre Desplat, David Sardy, Colin Stetson, Fil Eisler, Steven Price, and Steve Jablonsky, among others.

Jim’s expertise spans a range of roles—music editorial, mixing, producing, and restoration/remastering—resulting in wide-ranging studio work with artists such as Ringo Starr, Linda Perry, Jonny Greenwood & Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Hal Wilner, Ozzy Osbourne, David Holmes, Dickon Hinchliffe (Tindersticks), Gabe Witcher (The Punch Brothers), Nels Cline (Wilco), Tim Lefebvre (Tedeschi Trucks Band, David Bowie), Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Mark Lanegan, Rickie Lee Jones, Prodigy, Jeff Barry, Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Hurst, Tony Austin (Kamasi Washington), George Duke, Jeff Beck, and Jed Leiber.

Jim has been nominated for three MPSE Golden Reel Awards for his work on A Quiet Place, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and A Quiet Place Part II. He received an Emmy nomination in 2007 for TNT’s Into The West, and in 2019, he won an Emmy for the Academy Award–winning documentary Free Solo.

Outside the studio, Jim is an avid surfer, snowboarder, backpacker, and yoga practitioner, and is a certified PADI rescue diver.