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George Watters II
American sound editor (born 1949)
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George Watters II | |
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| Born | George Duncan Watters (1949-09-19) September 19, 1949 (age 75)[1] Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Sound editor |
| Years active | 1978–2011 |
George Watters II (born September 19, 1949) is an American retired sound editor with more than 80 feature film credits.[2] He has won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing twice, for The Hunt for Red October (1990) and for Pearl Harbor (2001).
Watters entered the film industry in 1973 as an apprentice in the Television Sound Editing Department at Paramount Pictures. Following his apprenticeship, he became an assistant sound editor for feature films at Paramount; in a 2012 interview, he said, "At that time I had the opportunity to work a bit in picture editing and music editing, but I found I preferred sound FX editing.
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