Academy Award for Best Film Editing respectively. Directors David Lean, Steve James, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (under the alias "Roderick Jaynes"), Michel Hazanavicius and Jean-Marc Vallée (under the alias "John Mac McMurphy") have been nominated for editing their own films, with Cameron, Cuarón, and the Coens each being nominated for the award twice. Additionally, Best Film Editing winner, Walter Murch, although known for film editing and sound, directed the Oscar nominated "Return to Oz" and is, to date, the only person with Oscars for both sound engineering and film editing, winning them in the same year for his work on "The English Patient". Also, nominated
Joel S. Birnbaum president in 1991. Birnbaum was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989. He won the IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition Award in 2000 "for leadership in integrating, extending and shaping industrial research and development in measurement, computing and communications". In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Joel S. Birnbaum Joel S. Birnbaum is a technology executive who served as senior vice president of Hewlett-Packard. Birnbaum earned