Science And Society

Film editing, sound design, cinema, acting, The English Patient, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather. Walter Murch won his first Academy Award nomination for The Conversation in 1974 for which he was also picture editor, won his first Oscar for Apocalypse Now in 1979, and won unprecedented double Oscars for sound mixing and picture editing for his work on The English Patient in 1996. While working on Apocalypse Now, Mr. Murch coined the term Sound Designer, and along with colleagues at San Francisco's Dolby Laboratories originated the current standard film-sound format, the 5.1 channel array, helping to elevate the art and impact of film sound to a new level. Mr. Murch was, along with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, a founding member of northern California cinema.