George Watters II

George Watters II is a two-time Academy Award-winning and six-time Academy Award-nominated sound editor who worked at Paramount Pictures from 1977 through 1992. He worked on under Richard L. Anderson and later supervised the sound editing on , , and . He and fellow Supervising Sound Editor F. Hudson Miller were nominated for an Academy Award for their work on Star Trek VI.
Watters began working as a sound editor for Paramount in 1977. His first project was (1978), which starred Kim Darby. This was followed by (1978) and (1979). Watters was then hired to help edit the sound effects for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
The first Star Trek film began a nearly thirteen-year collaboration between Watters and fellow sound editor Cecelia Hall. They subsequently worked together on such films as Joseph Sargent's (1980), (1981), (1982, starring William Shatner), (1983, starring Michael Nouri), (1983, featuring art direction by Harold Michelson), and (1984, starring Terri Garr and Peter Weller). 
Watters supervised Hall on Star Trek II, after which they both supervised the sound editing on Star Trek III. They later supervised the sound effects editing for hit Paramount films such as (1984, starring Eddie Murphy, Jonathan Banks, Steven Berkoff, Michael Champion, and Ronny Cox), (1986), and (1990, featuring Timothy Carhart, Daniel Davis, Boris Krutonog, Ned Vaughn, and s Gates McFadden). Their work on the latter two films earned Watters and Hall nominations from the Academy Awards; they won for The Hunt for Red October.
Watters left Paramount in 1992, after working with Hall on . From there, he joined Buena Vista Sound as Supervising Sound Editor. He has worked on over 30 films as part of Buena Vista, receiving Academy Award nominations for (1995, featuring Earl Billings and Scott Grimes), (1998, co-written by J.J. Abrams), (2003) and (2006). He won an Academy Award (his second) for his work on (2001).
He has worked on several films from director Tony Scott: (2006, starring Bruce Greenwood), (2005, featuring Stanley Kamel), Man on Fire (2004), (2001), (1998), and the aforementioned Crimson Tide. He has also frequently worked with director Michael Bay; in addition to the aforementioned Armageddon and Pearl Harbor Watters and Bay have collaborated on (1996, featuring Tony Todd) and (2003). 
Watters' other film credits with Buena Vista have included (1996, starring Christian Slater, Bob Gunton, and Casey Biggs), (1997, starring Colm Meaney), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999, featuring Fritz Weaver), (2002, featuring Michael Dorn), (2004, featuring Ron Canada, Don McManus, and Christopher Plummer), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), and (2007). 
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