Alan Robert Murray Alan Robert Murray is a Supervising Sound Editor who worked on two . Credited as Alan Murray he was a sound editor on in and credited as Alan Robert Murray he worked on in . Murray is a longtime collaborator of fellow " Nemesis " sound editor Bub Asman and director . Career . Sound department . Between 1978 and 2000 , Murray worked as sound effects editor and sound editor on films including the music drama " American Hot Wax " ( 1978 ) , the crime drama " Escape from Alcatraz " ( 1979 ) , the sport comedy " North Dallas Forty " ( 1979 ) , the action comedy " Bronco Billy " ( 1980 ) , the thriller " Firefox " ( 1982 ) , the comedy " Vacation " ( 1983 ) , the thriller " Sudden Impact " ( 1983 ) , the crime comedy " City Heat " ( 1984 ) , the crime drama " Ratboy " ( 1986 , with Gerrit Graham ) , and the western drama " South of Heaven , West of Hell " ( 2000 ) . He worked as supervising sound editor on projects such as the drama " The Postman Always Rings Twice " ( 1981 , with Christopher Lloyd ) , the romance " Bolero " ( 1984 ) , the western " Pale Rider " ( 1985 ) , the action film " Lethal Weapon " ( 1987 ) , the romance " Who ' s That Girl ? " ( 1987 ) , the thriller " Fatal Attraction " ( 1987 ) , the action film " Above the Law " ( 1988 ) , the fantasy comedy " Scrooged " ( 1988 , with John Glover , Michael J . Pollard , and Alfre Woodard ) , the sequel " Lethal Weapon 2 " ( 1989 ) , the drama " White Hunter Black Heart " ( 1990 ) , the action thriller " Die Hard 2 " ( 1990 , with William Sadler ) , the romance " Frankie and Johnny " ( 1991 ) , the drama " Fried Green Tomatoes " ( 1991 ) , the western " Unforgiven " ( 1992 ) , the drama " Indecent Proposal " ( 1993 ) , the crime thriller " A Perfect World " ( 1993 ) , and the comedy " 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 on almost every of his projects such as the drama " The Bridges of Madison County " ( 1995 ) , the crime drama " Absolute Power " ( 1997 ) , the crime drama " Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil " ( 1997 , with Anne Haney , Leon Rippy , and Richard Herd ) , the drama " True Crime " ( 1999 ) , the action film " Blood Work " ( 2002 , with Tina Lifford ) , the drama " Changeling " ( 2008 , written by J . Michael Straczynski ) , the drama " Gran Torino " ( 2008 ) , the fantasy film " Hereafter " ( 2010 ) , the crime drama " J . Edgar " ( 2011 ) , and the music drama " Jersey Boys " ( 2014 ) . Projects without involvement of Clint Eastwood include the action sequels " Under Siege 2 : Dark Territory " ( 1995 ) and " Speed 2 : Cruise Control " ( 1997 ) , the action film " The 13th Warrior " ( 1999 ) , the sport comedy " The Replacements " ( 2000 , executive produced by Jeffrey Chernov , music by John Debney , and art direction by Gary Kosko ) , the crime comedy " Heartbreakers " ( 2001 ) , the drama " The Great Buck Howard " ( 2008 ) , the thriller " Prisoners " ( 2013 , with Len Cariou ) , and the fantasy sequel " 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 the fantasy drama " Ladyhawke " and in 1990 for the action sequel " Lethal Weapon 2 " , both directed by . Murray and Bub Asman received their first Academy Award nomination in 1997 in the category Best Effects , Sound Effects Editing for their work on the action thriller " Eraser " , starring Vanessa Williams and James Cromwell and art direction by William Ladd Skinner . They received further Academy Award nominations in 2001 for the action drama " Space Cowboys " and in 2007 for the war drama " Flags of Our Fathers " . Also in 2007 they won an Academy Award in the category Best Achievement in Sound Editing for the war drama " 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 . 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 the war drama " Letters from Iwo Jima " in 2007 . Murray also received a Golden Reel Award nomination in 2004 for his work on the crime thriller " Mystic River " . Further honors include two Satellite Award nominations in 2004 for the crime drama " 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 nomiantion was again shared with Asman .