| Walter Murch | |
|---|---|
 Murch at the 69th Academy Awards | |
| 9 Nominations / 3 Wins | |
| Role | Film Editor, Sound Mixer |
| Born | July 12, 1943 |
| New York City, New York, USA | |
Walter Murch is an American film editor and sound engineer. He started editing and mixing sound with Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969). Subsequently, he worked on George Lucas's THX 1138 and American Graffiti and Coppola's The Godfather before editing picture and mixing sound on Coppola's The Conversation. Unlike most film editors today, Murch works standing up, comparing the process of film editing to "conducting, brain surgery and short-order cooking", since all conductors, cooks and surgeons stand when they work. In contrast, when writing, he does so lying down. His reason for this is that where editing film is an editorial process, the creation process of writing is opposite that, and so he lies down rather than sit or stand up, to separate his editing mind from his creating mind.
Wins[]
- 52nd Academy Awards, 1979
- Best Sound — Apocolypse Now (shared with Mark Berger, Richard Beggs and Nat Boxer)
- 69th Academy Awards, 1996
- Best Film Editing — The English Patient
- Best Sound — The English Patient (shared with Mark Berger, David Parker and Chris Newman)
Nominations[]
- 47th Academy Awards, 1974
- Best Sound — The Conversation (shared with Arthur Rochester)
- 50th Academy Awards, 1977
- Best Film Editing — Julia
- 52nd Academy Awards, 1979
- Best Film Editing — Apocoplypse Now (shared with Richard Marks, Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtman)
- Best Sound — Apocolypse Now (shared with Mark Berger, Richard Beggs and Nat Boxer)
- 63rd Academy Awards, 1990
- Best Film Editing — Ghost
- Best Film Editing — The Godfather, Part III (shared with Barry Malkin and Lisa Fruchtman)
- 69th Academy Awards, 1996
- Best Film Editing — The English Patient
- Best Sound — The English Patient (shared with Mark Berger, David Parker and Chris Newman)