George Watters II

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| name = George Watters II

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| birth_name = George Duncan Watters

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| birth_place = Los Angeles, California

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| occupation = Sound editor

| yearsactive = 1978–2011

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George Watters II (born September 19, 1949) is an American retired sound editor with more than 80 feature film credits.{{IMDb name |0915036 }} He has won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing twice, for The Hunt for Red October (1990) and for Pearl Harbor (2001).

Watters entered the film industry in 1973 as an apprentice in the Television Sound Editing Department at Paramount Pictures. Following his apprenticeship, he became an assistant sound editor for feature films at Paramount; in a 2012 interview, he said, "At that time I had the opportunity to work a bit in picture editing and music editing, but I found I preferred sound FX editing. Sound is sculptural, imaginative, universal and for me the most creative medium." Watters' first credit as a Supervising Sound Editor was for American Hot Wax (1978). Watters worked at Paramount Studios until 1992. In his interview, Watters singled out his long relationship with Jerry Bruckheimer. Bruckheimer produced twenty-five out of thirty of the films for which Watters was the sound editor, from Flashdance (1983) through Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011).{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&roles=nm0915036,nm0000988&sort=year&title_type=feature,tv_episode,video,tv_movie,tv_special,mini_series,documentary,game,short,unknown |work=Internet Movie Database |title=Films crediting George Watters II and Jerry Bruckheimer |access-date=2014-03-24}}

In 2012, Watters received the Career Achievement Award of the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE), which is an honorary society of sound editors based in the United States.A brief biography of Watters was published by the MPSE on the occasion of his career achievement award; see {{cite web |title=2012 MPSE Career Achievement Recipient |url=http://mpse.org/golden-reel-awards/past-awards/2012-awards/2012-career-achievement-and-filmaker/2012-mpse-career-achievement-award-recipient/ |publisher=Motion Picture Sound Editors |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217035214/http://mpse.org/golden-reel-awards/past-awards/2012-awards/2012-career-achievement-and-filmaker/2012-mpse-career-achievement-award-recipient/ |archive-date=2014-02-17 }}{{cite news |title=George Watters II to Receive Motion Picture Sound Editors' Career Achievement Award |date=January 8, 2012 |first=Gregg |last=Kilday |work=The Hollywood Reporter |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/george-watters-ii-golden-reel-sound-editor-279576}}