That year's Academy Awards ceremony acknowledged its competition when the final score of the game was announced before Verna Fields was announced as the winner of the award.

Mount says he turned to Verna Fields, Universal's then-head of post-production.

Verna Fields (née Hellman, 21 March 1918 - 30 November 1982) was an American film editor, film and television sound editor, educator, and entertainment industry executive.

Verna Fields, then a sound editor, added all the sound effects.

While Lucas had intended that his wife would edit the film, Universal Studios asked him to add Verna Fields to the editing team.

The film also credits the photographer Helen Levitt as an assistant director, and Verna Fields, who subsequently won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, as the sound editor.

It had been suggested that Alves co-direct the first sequel with Verna Fields when first director John D. Hancock left the project.

To her Academy Award, Verna Fields added the American Cinema Editors' Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film.

A meeting was called with the two, David Brown and Verna Fields, in which Scheider and Szwarc were encouraged to settle their differences.

Verna Fields won the 1962 "Golden Reel Award" of the Motion Picture Sound Editors.