Viola Davis and Walter Murch were awarded with honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degrees by the American Film Institute.

Award-winning actress Viola Davis and film editor/sound designer Walter Murch were presented with honorary degrees by the ...

The American Film Institute is honoring Viola Davis! The How to Get Away With Murder actress was bestowed with an Honorary ...

What Murch did was flesh out that world, show the nuts and bolts behind mics, taps, and bugs. He gave moviegoers a new way to think about sound before that technology even existed.

murch_046_db.jpg Walter Murch in front of his home office which in the the barn behind him. 7/24/04 in Bolinas Darryl Bush / The Chronicle Ran on: 08-22-2004 The infamous toilet scene from &quo ...

"Walter just knows stuff," Weschler says. "I do fall down these rabbit holes," Murch admits. He's on the phone from London, where he's editing Coup 53, Taghi Amirani's forthcoming documentary about ...

Walter Murch is extraordinary even within his own field, four times Oscar-nominated for film editing, three times nominated for sound mixing, achieving a landmark double when he won both for his ...

It’s Murch as outsider astrophysicist that Lawrence Weschler takes as the subject of his latest book “Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists.” As much a ...

For Academy Award-winning editor and sound designer Walter Murch, the notion of re-editing "Apocalypse Now" once seemed as likely as the film's Capt. Willard returning to the jungles of Cambodia ...

Three-time Oscar winner Walter Murch and Taghi Amirani created documentary 'Coup 53,' which unearths long-hidden details behind the U. S.- and British-backed 1953 coup that overthrew Iranian Prime ...

Hollywood editing and sound designer Walter Murch is a co-writer and editor on Taghi Amirani's docu-thriller 'Coup 53,' chronicling the overthrow of duly elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad ...

Basically one long talking-head-interview shot of Walter Murch, broken by bountiful movie excerpts, "Murch" offers a master class on movie editing, enriched by numerous behind-the-scenes and ...