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WALTER MURCH, ACE (Editor) has been nominated for seven Academy Awards® and has won three, including both Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing in 1997 for The English Patient. His other Oscar came for sound editing on Apocalypse Now, for which he also earned a Best Film Editing nomination. He was most recently nominated for a Best Film Editing Oscar for his work on Cold Mountain. Murch has been editing sound and film in Hollywood since 1969 when he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People. He later edited sound for Coppola's American Graffiti, The Godfather: Part II and The Conversation, which brought him his first Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA Award for Best Editing, shared with the film editor Richard Chew. He subsequently won his first Oscar on Coppola's Apocalypse Now. A graduate of the University of Southern California film school, one of his first projects was creating a sound montage for classmate George Lucas's first feature, THX-1138; he also co-wrote the screenplay. He began his career as a sound editor, then crossed over into film editing with Fred Zinneman's Julia, which received 11 Academy Award nominations, including his for Best Film Editing; it also brought him another BAFTA nomination. In 1991, Murch received dual Oscar nominations in the editing category for The Godfather: Part III and the surprise box office smash Ghost. He received an Eddie nomination for Best Edited Feature Film for The Talented Mr. Ripley, one of five such nominations over his career from the American Cinema Editors association. Among Murch's other editing credits are The Unbearable Lightness of Being, House of Cards and I Love Trouble (film); K-19: The Widowmaker, First Knight and Romeo Is Bleeding (film and sound); Dragonslayer and Gimme Shelter (sound). Murch wrote and directed the 1985 live-action fantasy Return to Oz.

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