MPSE Awards 2011: Walter Murch



Walter Murch received the Career Achievement Award on the MPSE awards 2011, and who better that his old friend George Lucas to give him the price.

Here the note from  Soundworks Collection.

Each year the MPSE presents the MPSE GOLDEN REEL AWARDS, in which we acknowledge the year’s best work in the various areas of sound editing: Dialogue & ADR, Effects & Foley, and Music. 
2011 MPSE Career Achievement Award Recipient: WALTER MURCH 
Walter Murch has been honored by both British and American Motion Picture Academies for his picture editing and sound mixing. In 1997, Murch received an unprecedented double Oscar for both film editing and sound mixing on The English Patient (A. Minghella), as well as that year’s British Academy Award for best editing. Seventeen years earlier, he had received an Oscar for best sound for Apocalypse Now (F. Coppola), as well as British and American Academy nominations for his picture editing. He also won a double British Academy Award in 1975 for his film editing and sound mixing on The Conversation (F.Coppola), was nominated by both academies in 1978 for best film editing for Julia ( F. Zinnemann), and in 1991 received two nominations for best film editing from the American Academy for the films Ghost (J.Zucker) and The Godfather Part III (F. Coppola). In 2004, for the film Cold Mountain (A. Minghella), he received a ninth Academy Nomination. for Film Editing, as well as British Academy nominations for Film Editing and Sound Mixing.
Murch also directed and co-wrote – with Gill Dennis – the film Return to Oz, released in 1985. Among Murch’s other credits are: picture editing for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (P. Kaufman), Romeo is Bleeding (P. Medak), The Talented Mr. Ripley (A. Minghella), K-19: The Widowmaker (K. Bigelow), Jarhead (Sam Mendes), Youth Without Youth (F.F. Coppola) and Tetro (F. F. Coppola). 
Most recently, he has directed an episode of Clone Wars for Lucasfilm Animation, and is currently editing Hemingway & Gellhorn for Phil Kaufman.
He has also been involved in film restoration, notably Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil (1998), Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse Now Redux (2001), and the Edison-Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894). 
Murch was also sound effects supervisor for The Godfather (F. Coppola), and responsible for sound montage and re-recording on THX-1138 (G. Lucas), American Graffiti (G. Lucas), and The Godfather Part II (F. Coppola) as well as being re-recording mixer on all of the films for which he has also been picture editor.

Fincher's The Social Network and Adobe



A nice clip that shows how Adobe tools have integrated in the conception of David Fincher's last movie: The Social Network.

SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM | Otros Mundos DAI 2 día 1


Spain | 2011 | 5 min | Color | 16:9 | Spanish

Starring
February to May 2011 ETSAM DAI 2 students

Professors
Atxu Amann | Marta Maiz 
Gonzalo Garcia Rosales | Fernando Moran

Photographed & edited by
Ioannes Busca

Music by
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross 
The Social Network Original Soundtrack
Ⓒ2010 The Null Corporation

Shot in Madrid, Spain
February 2011


Students were out for over a month and it was the first day of DAI 2 in Architecture School, so… What better way than a little bit of workout to warm up and get in the mood for creating? Atxu Amann sets the tone, the music does the rest.

DAI 2 is a continuation in time of DAI 1, Drawing, Analysis and Ideation class for first year students in Madrid Architecture School.


After six months outside the architecture school I came back for the first days of classes of the second semester and my friends and professors Atxu Amann and Marta Maiz were there organizing a crazier than ever commencement class for DAI2 (Drawing Analysis and Ideation 2). I was luckily there to shoot it and I end up editing this video featuring the awesome soundtrack from David Fincher's last movie The Social Network composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. English and spanish subtitles are available. - I.B.