Michael Alexander Hopkins (12 August 1959 â 30 December 2012) was a New Zealand sound editor. Hopkins and American Ethan Van der Ryn shared two Academy Awards for best sound editing on the films ' and King Kong. The pair were also nominated for their work on the 2007 film Transformers.
Hopkins died on 30 December 2012 after the raft he was in capsized in a flash flood on the Waiohine River, near his hometown of Greytown.