Walter Murch

Walter Murch, a GAC advisory council member, is an Oscar-winning Film editor, sound designer, for films including American Graffiti (1973), The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), for which he won an Oscar, The English Patient (1996), which won him a double Oscar in both film and sound editing, and Jarhead (2005), among others. Murch also directed Return to Oz (1985) and helped work on the restoration of Orson Welles’s classic Touch of Evil (1998). Most recently he edited and co-wrote a documentary about the 1953 coup d'etat in Iran, entitled Coup53.