George Watters II (born September 19, 1949) is an American retired sound editor with more than 80 feature film credits.
[2] 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.
Watters' first credit as a Supervising Sound Editor was for American Hot Wax (1978).
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).