Walter Murch Wins Two Oscars

Bruce Stambler Takes Award for Best Sound Editing

Winner of the Oscar for Best Picture Editing and Best Sound, Walter Murch	Winner of the Oscar for Best Sound Editing, Bruce Stambler.

Walter Murch is an unusual editor and on Oscar night he pulled off an unusual feat by picking up two awards. He won for Best Film Editing and Best Sound (as re-recording mixer), for his work on 'The English Patient'.

Also nominated for Best Film Editing Oscars were Gerry Hambling for 'Evita', Roderick Jaynes for 'Fargo', Joe Hutsching for 'Jerry Maguire' and Pip Karmel for 'Shine'.

This year we also had one of our members nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category - Paul Seydor for 'The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage'.

Bruce Stambler won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing for 'The Ghost and the Darkness', a movie with a subtle soundtrack of predatory lions and the rustling grasses of the African savanna. His crew on 'The Ghost and the Darkness' were sound effects editors Lance R. Brown, Glenn Hoskinson, Stephen F. Mann, Steve Nelson, Kim Secrist, Donald L. Warner, Jr., Richard E. Yawn, Gary Mundheim and Gordon A. Ecker, Jr.,dialogue editors John Leveque, Kimberly Lowe Voigt, Marshall Winn and Mildred Iatrou,supervising Foley editor Michael Dressel and Foley editors Robert Beher, Mark Pappas and Shawn Sykora.

The award was introduced by Beavis and Butt-head, which confirms the validity of Mark Mangini's question "Why doesn't the Academy take what we do seriously yet?" (See "The Bake Off").

The other nominees were Richard Anderson and David Whittaker for 'Daylight' and Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman for 'Eraser'.