Walter Murch

Walter Scott Murch born July 12 1943 is an American film editor director writer and sound designer His work includes THX 1138 Apocalypse Now The Godfather I II and III American Graffiti The Conversation Ghost and The English Patient with three Academy Award wins from nine nominations six for picture editing and three for sound mixing For his work on Apocalypse Now Murch was the first person to receive a credit as Sound Designer Murch was also the editor and rerecording mixer of Apocalypse Now Redux In 1998 producer Rick Schmidlin chose Murch as his editor for the restoration of Orson Welless Touch of Evil Murch is the author of a popular book on film editing In the Blink of an Eye and is the subject of Michael Ondaatjes book The Conversations Famed movie critic Roger Ebert called Murch the most respected film editor and sound designer in the modern cinema David Thomson calls Murch the scholar gentleman and superb craftsman of modern film adding that in sound and editing he is now without a peer Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Murch licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia