Walter Newman

Overview

Walter Newman is the Supervising Sound Editor at Warner Bros. Pictures. He’s won five Emmy Awards as a supervising sound editor, four for ER (including three consecutively, 1998-2000) and one for Third Watch. He’s been nominated a total of 18 times, all but once as a supervising sound editor (the exception: effects mixer for ER), most recently for AMC’s The Walking Dead in 2011. A graduate of Hollywood High and Cal State Northridge, Newman started working in the Warner Bros. post-production sound department in 1979, when the lot was known as The Burbank Studios, and has been there ever since, moving up the sonic career ladder.

Known for

Sound
2024	The Big Cigar	Sound	Sound Supervisor	65 Fair
2012	The Collection	Sound	Supervising Sound Editor	62 Fair
1998	Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!	Sound	Supervising Sound Editor	57 Average
1998	Deep Impact	Sound	Supervising Sound Editor	61 Fair
1996	Eraser	Sound	Sound Effects Editor	60 Fair
1994	The Road to Wellville	Sound	Sound Editor	57 Average
1992	Unforgiven	Sound	Supervising Sound Editor	77 Good
1992	The Witches of Eastwick	Sound	Sound Editor	58 Average
1991	Fried Green Tomatoes	Sound	Supervising Sound Editor	72 Good
1990	Die Hard 2	Sound	Sound Editor	68 Fair
1989	Lethal Weapon 2	Sound	Sound Editor	68 Fair
1988	Scrooged	Sound	Sound Editor	65 Fair
1988	The Dead Pool	Sound	Sound Editor	61 Fair
1988	Bird	Sound	Sound Editor	62 Fair
1986	Out of Bounds	Sound	Sound Editor	58 Average