Re-Recording Mixer
Full Member / Fellow
The Council of the Association of Motion Picture Sound is pleased to award Fellowship of the Association to Walter Murch.
Walter Murch is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of motion picture sound; he is equally well known and respected by his peers as a practitioner, writer and thinker in the art and craft of sound for film. In a distinguished career stretching back over the last fifty years, he has not only defined the role of the Sound Designer, but became one of leading exponents of the art and his soundtracks are amongst the most ground-breaking in cinema history. Walter has been the sound designer and re-recording mixer on some of the most important and influential films of the recent past, including ‘The Conversation’, ‘American Graffiti’, ‘The Godfather Part 2’, ‘Apocalypse Now’, ‘The English Patient’, ‘Ghost’ and ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’. Directors he has worked with include some of the most illustrious names in contemporary cinema including Francis Ford Coppola, Philip Kaufmann, George Lucas and Anthony Minghella. His career has been distinguished by his innovative use of technology for artistic and creative ends, such as his concept of “worldizing” used so successfully in ‘American Graffiti’, and pioneering the use of the multitrack tape recorder in film re-recording mixing.
Walter has credits not only as sound designer and re-recording mixer, but is also one of the world’s leading film editors and has worked as a director and scriptwriter. He is widely known and respected as a theoretician and public speaker on the role of sound and image in motion pictures, inspiring those of his colleagues around the world who work in this discipline and new generations of sound practitioners who are entering the industry, to develop and further their own contributions to motion picture sound practice.
For his unique contribution to the development of film sound and his work to inspire colleagues and the wider public to appreciate the power of the soundtrack, Walter is awarded Fellowship of The Association of Motion Picture Sound.
04 August 2015
