Trivia

Introduced Hollywood to the idea of editing films on the non-linear Mac based program Final Cut Pro rather than the Avid. Since then, has gone back to Avid Media Composer.

To date (2013), only artist ever to win Oscars for both film editing and sound engineering on a single film (The English Patient (1996)).

He believes in editing while standing up.

Murch is a beekeeper and he makes his own honey.

Murch has visited several times ENERC in Buenos Aires, one of the most prestigious film schools in Latin America, to meet the students and give a master class.

Musique concrète, the French school that made music out of everyday sounds by manipulating them on magnetic tape, was an early influence.

As of 2022, he has contributed with editing or sound department of seven films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: American Graffiti (1973), The Conversation (1974), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Godfather Part III (1990), Ghost (1990) and The English Patient (1996). Of those, The Godfather Part II (1974) and The English Patient (1996) are winners in the category.

Son of Canadian painter, Walter Tandy Murch (August 17, 1907 - December 11, 1967). His first one-man show was in 1941 at Wakefield Gallery in New York. Murch regularly mounted solo exhibitions every two years until his death in 1967. By 1950, he also taught at Pratt Institute and later at New York University, Columbia University and Boston University.

Father of Walter Slater Murch, Carrie Angland and Connie Angland. Also has a daughter named Beatrice Murch.

Father-in-law of actor-director Billy Bob Thornton.