Editing • Mixing • ProductioN • for Visual and Auditory Media

Jim Schultz is an Emmy award winning music editor, mixer, and producer with over twenty five years of experience working in music and film. Born and raised in Los Angeles CA, he attended UCLA to study music theory, music technology and production after which he began his professional career as a freelance recording and mix engineer. In 1999, Jim was working as a staff engineer at the renowned Nightbird Studios in West Hollywood, California. In addition to the legendary artists producing albums at Nightbird, the studio would frequently cater to film composers and score mixers who introduced Jim to the art of film scoring. He’s been busy ever since - building a long and notable resume of music and films; collaborating with filmmakers that include: Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Charlie Kaufman, James Mangold, Jimmy Chin & Chai Vasarhelyi, Adam McKay, Joe Carnahan, Harold Ramis, Jonathan Levine, Tommy Lee Jones and many more. He has worked with a long list of diverse composers, among them: Marco Beltrami, Jon Brion, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Alexandre Desplat, David Sardy, Colin Stetson, Fil Eisler, Steven Price and Steve Jablonsky.

Although most often busy as a music editor on feature films, Jim continuously works in a variety of roles in music production and post - primarily mixing, production, restoration and re-record mixing. The combination of these arts has led to a wide range of production credits including studio work with artists such as; Ringo Starr, Jonny Greenwood & Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Linda Perry, Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Hal Wilner, Ozzy Osbourne, David Holmes,  Dickon Hinchliffe (Tindersticks), Gabe Witcher (The Punch Brothers), Nels Cline (Wilco), Tim Lefebrve (Tedeschi Trucks Band, David Bowie), Mastodon, Ralph Stanley, Emmy Lou Harris, Mark Lanegan, Rickie Lee Jones, Prodigy, Jeff Barry, Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Hurst, Tony Austin (Kamasi Washington), George Duke, Jeff Beck, Jed Leiber, and Me’Shell N’Degeocello.

Jim has been nominated for three MPSE Golden Reel awards; for his work on Paramount Pictures “A Quiet Place”, Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “A Quiet Place 2”. In 2007 he was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the TNT mini series, “Into The West”; and in 2019 he won an Emmy for his work on the Emmy and Oscar winning National Georgaphic Film “Free Solo”.

Outside of the studio, Jim is an avid surfer, snowboarder, yoga practitioner, backpacker and certified P.A.D.I. rescue diver.