On & Backstage: Achievement in Sound Editing

Posted: Sunday, February 25th, 2007 by Michael van Poppel at 10.45 pm EDT.

CATEGORY: ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
AWARD RECIPIENT: ALAN ROBERT MURRAY AND BUB ASMAN
FILM: "LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA"

ONSTAGE
Alan Robert Murray: Well, first of all I'd like to thank the Academy, our distinguished director Clint Eastwood, producer Steven Spielberg, Paul Haggis and Rob Lorenz, the incredible support from everyone in the Malpaso family, Warner Bros. and Dreamworks, support from the United States Marine Corps, to our wives and children for their continued support and understanding, our exceptional picture and sound editors on Letters and the mix team of Gregg Rudloff, John Reitz and Dave Campbell.

And finally, thank you to my father and all the brave, honorable men and women in uniform, who in a time of crisis have all made that decision to defend their personal freedom and liberty no matter what the sacrifice.

BACKSTAGE
Q. (INAUDIBLE.)

A. Letters was more claustrophobic and pounding and inside the caves and always a threat on the outside but never seeing the war.  So, yeah.  I think we are different.

A. We were pretty much finished with Flags before we even saw Letters.  So we deliberately wanted to make them be different.  It was a different war from both sides, and we tried like crazy to make it feel, like, it was pretty scary for everybody there and pretty scary for us.

Q. Any other questions? Thank you very much, and congratulations.
A. Thank you.