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Alan Robert Murray (30 July 1954 – 24 February 2021; age 66) was a Supervising Sound Editor who worked on two Star Trek films. Credited as Alan Murray he was a sound editor on Star Trek: The Motion Picture and credited as Alan Robert Murray he worked on Star Trek Nemesis. Murray was a longtime collaborator of fellow Nemesis sound editor Bub Asman and director Clint Eastwood.
Career[]
Sound department[]
Between 1978 and 2000, Murray worked as sound effects editor and sound editor on films including American Hot Wax (1978), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), North Dallas Forty (1979), Bronco Billy (1980), Firefox (1982), National Lampoon's Vacation(1983), Sudden Impact (1983), City Heat (1984), Ratboy (1986, with Gerrit Graham), and South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000).
He worked as supervising sound editor on projects such as The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981, with Christopher Lloyd), Bolero (1984), Pale Rider (1985), Lethal Weapon (1987), Who's That Girl? (1987), Fatal Attraction (1987), Above the Law (1988), Scrooged (1988, with John Glover, Michael J. Pollard, and Alfre Woodard), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), White Hunter Black Heart (1990), Die Hard 2 (1990, with William Sadler), Frankie and Johnny (1991), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Unforgiven (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), A Perfect World (1993), and Milk Money (1994).
Murray's credits as supervising sound editor in collaboration with fellow sound editor Bub Asman started in the 1990s. They worked for director Clint Eastwood on almost every of his projects such as the drama The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Absolute Power (1997), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997, with Anne Haney, Leon Rippy, and Richard Herd), True Crime (1999), Blood Work (2002, with Tina Lifford), Changeling (2008, written by J. Michael Straczynski), Gran Torino (2008), Hereafter (2010), J. Edgar (2011), and Jersey Boys (2014).
Projects without involvement of Clint Eastwood include Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), The 13th Warrior (1999), The Replacements (2000, executive produced by Jeffrey Chernov, music by John Debney, and art direction by Gary Kosko), Heartbreakers (2001), The Great Buck Howard (2008), Prisoners (2013, with Len Cariou), and 300: Rise of an Empire (2014).
Awards[]
Murray and Robert G. Henderson received their first two Academy Award nominations in the category Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing in 1986 for Ladyhawke and in 1990 for Lethal Weapon 2, both directed by Richard Donner.
Murray and Bub Asman received their first Academy Award nomination in 1997 in the category Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing for their work on Eraser, starring Vanessa Williams and James Cromwell and art direction by William Ladd Skinner. They received further Academy Award nominations in 2001 for Space Cowboys and in 2007 for Flags of Our Fathers Also in 2007 they won an Academy Award in the category Best Achievement in Sound Editing for Letters from Iwo Jima. More recently, in 2015, they received another Academy Award nomination for their work on the action drama American Sniper. Except for Eraser, Murray and Asman worked on all their Academy Award honored projects for director Clint Eastwood.
Murray and Asman also shared six Golden Reel Award nominations from the Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild between 2001 and 2007 for their work on Space Cowboys, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Million Dollar Baby, The Legend of Zorro, and Flags of Our Fathers and won two awards in the categories Best Sound Editing in Sound Effects and Foley for a Feature Film and Best Sound Editing in a Feature Film: Dialogue and Automated Dialogue Replacement for Letters from Iwo Jima in 2007. Murray also received a Golden Reel Award nomination in 2004 for his work on Mystic River.
Further honors include two Satellite Award nominations in 2004 for Mystic River and in 2006 for Flags of Our Fathers and four BAFTA Film Award nominations for Best Sound on Bird (1988), Unforgiven (1992), Changeling (2008), and more recently on American Sniper in 2015. The most recent BAFTA Film Award nomination was again shared with Asman.
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