{"id":2125539,"date":"2025-10-30T20:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2125539"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:39:14","slug":"kent-gibson-emmy-winning-sound-designer-on-carl-sagans-cosmos-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kent-gibson-emmy-winning-sound-designer-on-carl-sagans-cosmos-dies-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Gibson, Emmy-Winning Sound Designer on Carl Sagan\u2019s \u2018Cosmos,\u2019 Dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0317066\/\">Kent Gibson<\/a>, an Emmy-winning producer and sound designer, died Oct. 23 in hospice care in Seattle after a struggle with dementia, his friend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6611183\/\">Susan Lenti<\/a> told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0087279\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. He was 77.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm15889842\/\">Gibson<\/a> received his Emmy in 1981 for his work as a sound designer and re-recording mixer on the PBS miniseries <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081846\/\">Cosmos<\/a>, co-written and presented by astronomer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0755981\/\">Carl Sagan<\/a>, and he landed another nom for his work on the 1996 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1103744\/\">TBS<\/a> miniseries America\u2019s Music: The Roots of Country.<\/p>\n<p>Later, he scored a News and Documentary Emmy nomination for executive producing the 2003 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0979954\/\">A&amp;e<\/a> telefilm Cosmic Journey: The Voyager Interstellar Mission and Message as president of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1126693\/\">Cosmos Studios<\/a> (he served in that role from 1998-2006).<\/p>\n<p>Gibson also handled postproduction audio for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000556\/\">Olivia Newton-John<\/a>\u2019s music video for \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt21650358\/\">Let\u2019s Get Physical<\/a>\u201d in 1982 and worked on projects involving other musical acts including <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001078\/\">Bing Crosby<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0006168\/\">John Lennon<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0828310\/\">Cat Stevens<\/a>, Fleetwood Mac, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005465\/\">Rod Stewart<\/a> and Huey Lewis and the News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Gibson, an Emmy-winning producer and sound designer, died Oct. 23 in hospice care in Seattle after a struggle with dementia, his friend Susan Lenti told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 77. 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