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Portrait
File No. 864802  ·  Adjudicated

Douglas Shearer

Sound Designer — Canadian sound designer and recording director

Born
1899
Birthplace
WESTMOUNT, QUEBEC
Citizenships
CA

Canadianness Score

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
5.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria

Designation

Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁

Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.

Scorecard

Path A — born on Canadian soil
I. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
WESTMOUNT, QUEBEC
Canadian parentage — not scored
Both parents Canadian
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Quebec
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Has never brought it up
Canada claims them back — not scored
No claim lodged

Fun fact

Brother of actress Norma Shearer, he revolutionized movie sound recording and won his first Oscar at age 26.

The verdict

Won 12 Academy Awards for sound engineering — more Oscars than any Canadian in history — but did it all from Hollywood after leaving Montreal as a teenager. Canada gave him his start, but MGM gave him his legacy, and he never really looked back.

Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org