Walter Murch has been editing sound in Hollywood since starting on
Francis Ford Coppola's film
Liebe niemals einen Fremden (1969). He
edited sound on
American Graffiti (1973) and
Der Pate 2 (1974),
won his first Academy Award nomination for
Der Dialog (1974), won
his first Oscar for
Apocalypse Now (1979), and won an
unprecedented double Oscar for Best Sound and Best Film Editing for his work on
Der englische Patient (1996).
Most recently he helped reconstruct
Im Zeichen des Bösen (1958) to
Orson Welles' original notes, and edited
Der talentierte Mr. Ripley (1999).
Mr. Murch was, along with George Lucas and
Francis Ford Coppola, a founding member of northern California cinema. Mr. Murch has directed --Oz - Eine phantastische Welt (1985) -- and longs to do so again, but as an editor and sound man he is one of the few
universally acknowledged masters in his field. For his work on the film
"Apocalypse Now (1979)", Walter coined the term "sound designer", and along with colleagues such as Ben Burtt, helped to
elevate the art and impact of film sound to a new level.
