Top 100 Greatest Film Editors of All Time
This is the list of the greatest film editors of all time. This is mainly towards American audiences. This is not my personal list, but a list based off of acclaim, awards, popularity, and skill.
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Thelma Schoonmaker was born on 3 January 1940 in Algiers, Algeria. She is an editor and producer, known for The Departed (2006), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) and The Irishman (2019). She was previously married to Michael Powell.- Editor
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Michael Kahn was born on 8 December 1935 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an editor and cinematographer, known for West Side Story (2021), Jurassic Park (1993) and Minority Report (2002).- Editor
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Thrice Oscar-winning editor Daniel Mandell started out in show business as one of "The Flying Mandells" with Ringling Brothers Circus. He then turned his acrobatic skills to performing on the vaudeville circuit. Following service with the Marines in World War I and subsequently taking part in the post-Armistice occupation, he joined a longtime friend in the editing department of MGM. For five years he plied his trade with Columbia (1924-29), before his career really took off after being hired by independent film maker Samuel Goldwyn (at RKO: 1930-1932 and 1941-1952; at United Artists: 1936-1940). Mandell quickly became Goldwyn's number one editor and was assigned the lion's share of prestige pictures: Dodsworth (1936), Dead End (1937), Wuthering Heights (1939) (his own personal favorite), The Westerner (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and Guys and Dolls (1955). Mandell considered timing to be of paramount importance in his work and believed that his performing background had given him an vital insight into audience reaction.
Mandell's other fruitful collaboration was with the director Billy Wilder, for whom he worked on five films, notably Witness for the Prosecution (1957), The Apartment (1960) and The Fortune Cookie (1966).- Editor
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New York-born William Reynolds was a self-effacing editor with a distinguished sixty-year career in the motion picture industry, noted for his unobtrusive, seamless work on movies of every genre, from romantic melodramas to gangster films. A graduate of Princeton University, he started in the business, moving props as part of the 20th Century Fox swing gang. Displaying a keen interest in the art of editing, he was taken under the wing of the experienced Robert L. Simpson, whom he accompanied to Paramount as assistant in 1935. After just two years, Reynolds was promoted to full editor, his most prestigious assignment being Algiers (1938). In 1942, he moved across to 20th Century Fox, but wartime service put a temporary halt to his career. However, he did manage to sustain continuity by editing U.S. Army training films.
From 1946, Reynolds was part of a top-notch editing team assembled by Darryl F. Zanuck, himself a former editor and famous for his hands-on approach to post-production. During the remainder of his tenure at Fox, Reynolds cut some of the studio's best films, including the excellent sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); and glossy romances and musicals like Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955). Reynolds was a frequent collaborator and preferred editor for directors like Robert Wise and Joshua Logan. He did some of his most acclaimed work after free-lancing for three years, back at Fox, on The Sound of Music (1965) -- winning an Oscar and caustically commenting, "when in doubt, cut to Julie Andrews" (NY Times, July 22 1997)). Free-lancing again from 1970, he edited the first half of The Godfather (1972) (Francis Ford Coppola assigned the second half to Peter Zinner) and The Sting (1973) (which Reynolds regarded as one of his most demanding assignments). However, towards the end of his career, he was also involved in several significant commercial failures: Heaven's Gate (1980) -- on which he also acted as executive producer, Pirates (1986) and Ishtar (1987). In 1977, Reynolds was named by his peers in a Film Comment poll as one of the three best-ever film editors.- Editor
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Ralph Dawson was born on 18 April 1897 in Westboro, Massachusetts, USA. He was an editor and director, known for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Anthony Adverse (1936) and The High and the Mighty (1954). He died on 15 November 1962 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.- William A. Lyon was born on 21 January 1903 in Texas, USA. He was an editor, known for From Here to Eternity (1953), The Caine Mutiny (1954) and Picnic (1955). He died on 18 March 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Educated at UCLA, Harold F. Kress entered the film business in the late 1930s as an editor. Although he directed a few documentaries and made a stab at directing features, his real niche was as an editor, and he became one of the most respected editors in the industry, winning an Academy Award for editing How the West Was Won (1962) and another for The Towering Inferno (1974).- Editor
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Ralph Winters and his wife Teddy have five grandchildren. He is a two-time Academy Award-winning editor, an incredibly intelligent, kind, unique and loving man who began using a computer when in his 90s and lived to see the publication of his memoirs, "Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor", which he wrote on his own PC. He was highly admired and sought-after by up-and-coming editors for his advice and experience, and always gave of himself to these young people. An interviewer once asked him whether he would someday enjoy directing movies. His answer: "You betcha". Ralph E. Winters was incredibly loved and is desperately missed.- Editor
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Ms. McLean was a pioneering female film editor for 20th Century Fox. She began her Hollywood career in the 1930s and earned her first film credit for editing The Affairs of Cellini (1934). She joined Fox in 1935 as one of only eight female film editors working in Hollywood in the 1930s. She became Fox' editing division chief in 1949 and retired from the studio in 1969.- Editor
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Joe Hutshing can definitely be included among the greatest film editors of all time due not only to his impressive resume with works from directors like Oliver Stone, Cameron Crowe and Nancy Meyers but also due to his innovative techniques and amazing eye for details in order to compose a great cinematic story.
His partnership with Oliver Stone is one of his most rewarding and the one that lasted the longest. They collaborated in seven films: Wall Street (1987), Talk Radio (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), JFK (1991), The Doors (1991), W. (2008) and Savages (2012). He won Academy Awards in the Best Editing category for two of his Stone works, Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and the outstanding production JFK (1991) - which along with Pietro Scalia they edited down an epic 4-hour epic in the matter of one month. This amazing task also earned them a Bafta and the American Cinema Editors award - of which later Hutshing would become a member. Hutshing would get two other Oscar nominations for Jerry Maguire (1996) and Almost
Famous (2000), both directed by Cameron Crowe. He also won an Emmy for editing Live from Baghdad (2002) for director Mick Jackson. Other credits include: Indecent Proposal (1993), The River Wild (1994), Broken Arrow (1996), Meet Joe Black (1998), Live From Baghdad (2002), which won an Emmy; Something's Gotta Give (2003), The Holiday (2006), Lions for Lambs (2007), Metallica Through the Never (2013), Aloha (2015) and Crown Heights (2017), Robin Hood (2018) and Metallica - S&M2 (2019)- Editor
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Though he's cut celluloid for some of the best in the business, chances are many film lovers wouldn't even recognize the name Pietro Scalia in a lineup of Hollywood's best film editors. Born in Sicily in 1960, Scalia resided in Switzerland before heading to Los Angeles to continue his education. After receiving his M.F.A. in Film and Theater Arts from U.C.L.A. in 1985, Scalia began his career as an assistant editor to Oliver Stone on such features as Wall Street (1987) and Talk Radio (1988). Later coming into his own with such films as JFK (1991) (for which he received a Best Editing Oscar) and Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead (1995), Scalia continued to work on such high-profile films as Stealing Beauty (1996) and G.I. Jane (1997). Scalia also received Best Editor Oscar nominations for Good Will Hunting (1997) and Gladiator (2000), though he would have to wait until the following year for his next win at the Oscars, as he received the Best Editing Award for director Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001).- Sound Department
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Walter Murch has been editing sound in Hollywood since starting on Francis Ford Coppola's film The Rain People (1969). He edited sound on American Graffiti (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), won his first Academy Award nomination for The Conversation (1974), won his first Oscar for Apocalypse Now (1979), and won an unprecedented double Oscar for Best Sound and Best Film Editing for his work on The English Patient (1996). Most recently he helped reconstruct Touch of Evil (1958) to Orson Welles' original notes, and edited The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). Mr. Murch was, along with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, a founding member of northern California cinema. Mr. Murch has directed --Return to Oz (1985) -- and longs to do so again, but as an editor and sound man he is one of the few universally acknowledged masters in his field. For his work on the film "Apocalypse Now (1979)", Walter coined the term "sound designer", and along with colleagues such as Ben Burtt, helped to elevate the art and impact of film sound to a new level.- Editor
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Conrad Nervig had the distinction of being the first-ever recipient of an Academy Award for best editing. This was for Eskimo (1933), a drama shot in semi-documentary style by outdoor and action specialist W.S. Van Dyke in the northernmost inhabited settlement in Alaska. The entire dialogue was in an Inuit language and subtitles were used in translation. The South Dakota-born Nervig had started in the industry with Goldwyn Pictures in 1922 and remained after the merger with Metro, spending his entire career at MGM until his retirement in 1954. He worked on many classic films across diverse genres, including A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Maytime (1937), The Big Store (1941) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). He won a second Oscar for King Solomon's Mines (1950) in collaboration with Ralph E. Winters.
Here is an interesting footnote to Nervig's life: as a naval officer en route to Rio (where he was assigned as a replacement aboard the U.S.S. Glacier), Nervig was a passenger on the ill-fated collier U.S.S. Cyclops during her penultimate voyage. The ship disappeared without trace in March 1918 in the Bermuda Triangle, along with 306 crew and passengers. Fifty-one years after the event (in 1969), Nervig published his recollections -- entitled "The Cyclops Mystery" -- in "The Naval Institute Proceedings".- Editor
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Gene Milford was born on 19 January 1902 in Lamar, Colorado, USA. She was an editor and director, known for On the Waterfront (1954), Lost Horizon (1937) and Wait Until Dark (1967). She was married to Dorothy Hunter. She died on 23 December 1991 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Editor
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Arthur Robert "Artie" Schmidt began in films as assistant editor to Dede Allen and Jim Clark. His father, Arthur P. Schmidt, had also been a distinguished veteran in the field of film editing, acclaimed for his collaborations with Billy Wilder on masterpieces like Sunset Blvd. (1950) and Some Like It Hot (1959). He was somehow disparaging about his son following in his footsteps. Schmidt Jr. instead attended Santa Clara University, graduated with a Bachelor in English and later went on to teach English in Spain. However, following his father's sudden death from a heart attack in 1965, he was recruited by Paramount as an apprentice, and, in 1970, began his professional career as assistant editor. Five years later, he was tasked to cut the running sequences in John Schlesinger's stylish thriller Marathon Man (1976) in the capacity of associate editor under the auspices of his mentor Jim Clark. From there, he progressed to fully-fledged editor in 1977.
Schmidt varied his editing methodology according to each individual project. His motto was "I always try to let the film and story tell me where to go next." Arguably his best work was for the director Robert Zemeckis. This included both films for which he won Best Editing Oscars, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Forrest Gump (1994), as well as the Back to the Future (1985) trilogy and the black comedy Death Becomes Her (1992). Who Framed Roger Rabbit may well have constituted his toughest career challenge as it required a flawless blending of hand-drawn animation with live action scenes. Schmidt said about his successful collaboration with Zemeckis in a 2014 interview "He's wonderful directing actors and great in the editing room. We always seemed to be in sync."
Schmidt's other contributions of note have included Ruthless People (1986), The Last of the Mohicans (1992) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). In 2009, he was awarded the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award, fittingly presented to him by Robert Zemeckis.- Producer
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Angus Wall graduated from Bowdoin College in 1988. In 1992, he and Linda Carlson started the firm Rock Paper Scissors, which has become "a respected West Hollywood creative editorial house known for its commercial work for such clients as BMW, HP, and Nike."
Angus is a film editor who has won the Academy Awards for Film Editing twice in a row, both for David Fincher movies (The Social Network and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo). His very first Academy nomination was for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, also a David Fincher movie. Angus often works together with Kirk Baxter.- Editor
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Kirk Baxter was born in 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is an editor and producer, known for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), The Social Network (2010) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008).- Editor
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Fredric Steinkamp was born on 22 August 1928. He was an editor and producer, known for Out of Africa (1985), Tootsie (1982) and Three Days of the Condor (1975). He died on 20 February 2002 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Editor
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After harrowing experiences as a nurse at Sir Archibald McIndoe's pioneering plastic surgery hospital in East Grinstead, Anne Coates started to fulfil her long-held ambition to be a film director with a company called Religious Films. The work consisted of patching up prints of devotional shorts before sending them out to Britain's churches. This led to a job in the cutting room at Pinewood, where she worked on "The Red Shoes" among others before achieving her first screen credit with "The Pickwick Papers".- Editor
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William Goldenberg was born on 2 November 1959 in the USA. He is an editor and director, known for Argo (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and Miami Vice (2006).- Editor
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American film editor who occasionally directed, but won Oscars in his primary field. The son of Harry W. Gerstad, silent film cinematographer, Harry Donald Gerstad grew up in Hollywood. In his late teenage years he got work as a laboratory assistant at Hal Roach Studios, then Warner Bros., and finally at Republic Pictures.
Following the Second World War, he began editing feature films at RKO, working frequently with director Edward Dmytryk, who mentored Gerstad and helped him find work. In 1949 Gerstad was hired by Stanley Kramer as editorial supervisor and moved to Kramer's unit at Columbia Pictures. He won an Academy Award for his editing of Champion (1949) and shared the Oscar with Elmo Williams for High Noon (1952). He was one of several Kramer staff to work on the TV series Adventures of Superman (1952), and directed episodes as well as editing them. In the 1960s he worked for Bing Crosby Productions and 20th Century-Fox as editorial supervisor, as well as for John Wayne's Batjac Productions. He retired in 1973 and lived the remainder of his life in Palm Springs, where he died in 2002 at 93.- Editor
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Paul Weatherwax was born on 8 July 1900 in Sturgis, Michigan, USA. He was an editor and director, known for The Naked City (1948), Exclusive (1937) and Men on Call (1930). He died on 13 September 1960 in West Hollywood, California, USA.- Editor
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Anne Bauchens was a pioneering film editor who had a long-standing partnership with director Cecil B. DeMille. In fact, she first edited a DeMille film in 1915 and then edited all of his films for 38 years, beginning with We Can't Have Everything (1918) and ending with The Ten Commandments (1956). She was nominated for four Oscars and won one, for North West Mounted Police (1940).- Editor
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James E. Newcom was born on 29 August 1905 in Wayne, Indiana, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for Gone with the Wind (1939), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and Rebecca (1940). He died on 6 October 1990 in San Diego, California, USA.- Editor
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American motion picture editor, who, in 1977, was voted by 100 of his peers as the best his profession had ever produced. Hornbeck began his distinguished career in the industry, aged fourteen, as a film winder with the New York Motion Picture Company on 42nd Street and Broadway. In 1916, he joined Mack Sennett's Keystone Film Company and worked for twelve years as chief editor on numerous two-reel comedies. In 1934, Hornbeck went to England and became supervising editor for Alexander Korda's London Films, where he worked on such classics as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), Things to Come (1936) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He was known to be a meticulous craftsman, always wearing white gloves on both hands when handling celluloid.
In 1941, Hornbeck returned to America to collaborate with Frank Capra on the 'Why We Fight' series of documentaries in the Army Signal Corps Photographic Unit. After the war, he edited Capra's classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and MGM's State of the Union (1948). From 1949 to 1953, he was under contract to Paramount and won an Academy Award in for A Place in the Sun (1951). His other outstanding contributions during this decade include Shane (1953), The Barefoot Contessa (1954) and Giant (1956), in which his editing effectively disguised James Dean's untimely demise prior to completion of the picture.
After briefly free-lancing, Hornbeck joined Universal as supervising editor in 1960 and remained in that capacity until his retirement in 1976.- Editor
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Frank P. Keller was born on 4 February 1913 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an editor, known for Bullitt (1968), The Hot Rock (1972) and Pocketful of Miracles (1961). He died on 25 December 1977 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Editor
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Daniel P. Hanley is an American film editor. His career spans three decades in film editing, starting from the early 1980's. He started his career with the TV series, Laverne & Shirley (1976) in the year 1980. Some of his notable work include Parenthood (1989), Problem Child (1990), Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and Angels & Demons (2009) Many of his movies have been made in association with Ron Howard, a leading film director for whom he, along with 'Mike Hill (I)'qv), have edited many movies, some of which include Night Shift (1982), Willow (1988), Cinderella Man (2005) and The Dilemma (2011). Together 'Daniel P Hanley' and 'Mike Hill (I)'qv) have won an Academy Award for the film Apollo 13 (1995) in the year 1996 and were nominated nine times for various other awards including thrice for Academy Awards. They have also won the Editors of the Year award in the Hollywood Film Festival in the year 2008 and Sierra Award in the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards in the same year.- Editor
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Mike Hill was born in 1949 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for Rush (2013), Frost/Nixon (2008) and Apollo 13 (1995). He was married to LeAnne Hill. He died on 5 January 2023 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.- Editor
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Frederic Knudtson was born on 9 April 1906 in Apple Creek, North Dakota, USA. He was an editor, known for It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and Inherit the Wind (1960). He died on 15 February 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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Gerry Hambling was born on 14 June 1926 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. He was an editor, known for Mississippi Burning (1988), Midnight Express (1978) and Evita (1996). He was married to Margaret Speakman. He died on 5 February 2013 in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.- Editor
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Gene Havlick was born on 16 March 1894 in Enid, Oklahoma, USA. She was an editor, known for You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and Lost Horizon (1937). She died on 11 May 1959 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Editor
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Hal C. Kern was born on 14 July 1894 in Anaconda, Montana, USA. He was an editor, known for Gone with the Wind (1939), Rebecca (1940) and Spellbound (1945). He died on 24 February 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editorial Department
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Starting as a film editor at age 17, George Amy found his niche at Warner Brothers in the 1930s. It was Amy's editing that was one of the main reasons Warners' films got their reputation for their fluid style and breakneck pace. He was a favorite of such top Warners directors as Michael Curtiz and Howard Hawks, and won an Academy Award for editing Hawks' Air Force (1943). Although Amy directed several shorts and a few features on his own for Warners, they didn't meet with much success. In the 1950s he turned to editing and directing for television.- Editor
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Charles Nelson was born on 15 April 1901 in Sweden. He was an editor, known for Gilda (1946), The Big Heat (1953) and Picnic (1955). He died on 19 January 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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Gerald B. Greenberg was born on 29 July 1936 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an editor, known for The French Connection (1971), Apocalypse Now (1979) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). He died on 22 December 2017 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Music Department
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Peter Zinner was born on 24 July 1919 in Vienna, Austria. He was an editor and producer, known for The Deer Hunter (1978), The Godfather (1972) and An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). He was married to Christa Zinner. He died on 13 November 2007 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Editor
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Londoner John Bloom was born on September 12th 1935, the younger brother of the actress Claire Bloom. He began his film career as a script reader in the story department at Pinewood studios but became interested in film editing, starting out as assistant to John Trumper on Heart of a Child (1958). His big break came with the film "The Impersonator (1961)" with his first solo credit as editor and throughout the 60s and 70s he worked on a number of British films, gaining an Oscar for "Gandhi (1982)". However since the mid-1980s he has worked chiefly in America, including three collaborations with director Mike Nichols, the cinema films "Closer (2004)" and "Charlie Wilson's War (2007)" and "Wit (2001)", for which he took an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.- Editor
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Lisa Fruchtman is known for The Right Stuff (1983), Apocalypse Now (1979) and The Godfather Part III (1990).- Editor
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Joel Cox was born in 1942 and his film career began at a very early age- appearing before the cameras, in fact - as a baby in the film 'Random
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Stephen Mirrione was born on 17 February 1969 in Santa Clara County, California, USA. He is an editor and producer, known for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Traffic (2000) and Babel (2006).- Editor
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Christopher Rouse was born on 28 November 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an editor and writer, known for The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Captain Phillips (2013) and United 93 (2006).- Editor
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Lee Smith was born in 1960 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is an editor, known for Inception (2010), Dunkirk (2017) and The Dark Knight (2008). He is married to Kimberly.- Editor
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In 2022, British film editor Joe Walker won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on Dune. Walker is also a two-time Academy Award nominee and a three-time BAFTA nominee for his work on the films 12 Years a Slave, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049. Walker was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award in 2009, and the British Independent Film Award in 2010. In 2012, he won the European Film Award for Best Editor for the feature film Shame starring Michael Fassbender. Additionally, Walker was nominated for The Satellite Award in 2011, 2013, 2015 and was the winner in 2016 for the American crime thriller-movie Sicario directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Walker has received a string of four nominations over five years from the American Cinema Editor's Award for the Best Edited Dramatic Feature Film. In 2016, Walker won this award for Arrival.
In 2018, Walker cut the film Widows for director Steve McQueen. Walker is currently editing Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two.- Al Clark was born on 15 September 1902 in Illinois, USA. He was an editor, known for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Awful Truth (1937) and All the King's Men (1949). He died on 13 July 1971 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Robert Kern was born on 29 March 1885 in Wilton Junction [now Wilton], Iowa, USA. He was an editor, known for The Thin Man (1934), National Velvet (1944) and David Copperfield (1935). He was married to Ruth Eleanor. He died on 30 May 1972 in Orange, California, USA.- Actor
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Robert Parrish was an Academy Award-winning film editor who also directed and acted in movies. As a child he appeared in films during the early 1930s, such as City Lights (1931) by Charles Chaplin and Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). As an editor he won an Academy Award for Body and Soul (1947), the 1947 Robert Rossen film that starred John Garfield as a money-grubbing, two-timing boxer on the make. Parrish also worked on All the King's Men (1949), an account of the rise and fall of a Louisiana politician that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Parrish then moved on to direct films during the 1950s and 1960s. Among his best received works was the brooding western Saddle the Wind (1958).- Editor
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Elmo Williams was born James Elmo Williams in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. Orphaned at 16, he attended schools in Oklahoma and New Mexico before moving to Los Angeles. In 1933 he struck up a relationship with film editor Merrill G. White, who hired Williams as his assistant on a business trip to England. He learned the basics of film editing from White and soon gained a reputation as a first-rate editor, doing much work at RKO. In 1947 Williams edited the documentary Design for Death (1947), which earned an Oscar as Best Documentary, and in 1952 he received an Oscar for his editing of the western classic High Noon (1952). He soon branched out into directing, turning out several low-budget efforts for Lippert Pictures and Republic Pictures. Williams journeyed to Europe in 1958 to work as editor and second-unit director on The Vikings (1958) and wound up staying there for several years when he was hired to produce and direct the TV series Tales of the Vikings (1959).
Upon his return to the US, Williams was hired by 20th Century-Fox as a second-unit director. In that capacity, and as associate producer, he was sent back to Europe to work on the WW II epic The Longest Day (1962), helping to stage the film's spectacular battle scenes. He had another extended stay in Europe when he was given the job of Managing Director of European Production for Fox, a position he held until 1966, when he returned to the US to work on another World War II epic, Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). In 1970 Williams was appointed Vice President in charge of Worldwide Production at Fox, a job he left in 1973 to go into independent production.- Editorial Department
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John D. Dunning was born on 5 May 1916 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an editor, known for Ben-Hur (1959), Battleground (1949) and Betrayed (1954). He died on 25 February 1991 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Adrienne Fazan was born on 9 May 1906 in Germany. She was an editor, known for An American in Paris (1951), Gigi (1958) and Singin' in the Rain (1952). She died on 23 August 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Gene Ruggiero was born on 20 June 1910 in North Hempstead, New York, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and Ninotchka (1939). He died on 19 February 2002 in Ogden, Utah, USA.- Editor
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Cotton Warburton is the great great uncle of author and filmmaker Dustin Warburton. Irvine "Cotton" Warburton (born October 8, 1911 in San Diego and died April 21, 1982 in Culver City, CA) was an All-American college quarterback (1933) who became a film editor; he won an Academy Award for his work on Mary Poppins in 1964. Warburton attended San Diego High School, and won the California high school quarter mile in 1930. He brought his speed to the USC Trojans football team, and was chosen as an All-American quarterback in 1933. Cotton was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975.- Director
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Hal Ashby was born the fourth and youngest child in a Mormon household, in Ogden, Utah, to Eileen Ireta (Hetzler) and James Thomas Ashby, on September 2, 1929. His father was a dairy farmer. After a rough childhood that included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide, his dropping out of high school, getting married and divorced all before he was 19, he decided to leave Utah for California. A Californian employment office found him a printing press job at Universal Studios. Within a few years, he was an assistant film editor at various other studios. One of his pals while at MGM was a young messenger named Jack Nicholson. He moved up to being a full fledged editor on The Loved One (1965) and started editing the films of director Norman Jewison.
A highlight of his film editing career was winning an Oscar for the landmark In the Heat of the Night (1967). Itching to become a director, Jewison gave him a script he was too busy to work on called The Landlord (1970). It became Ashby's first film as a director. From there he delivered a series of well-acted, intelligent human scaled dramas that included The Last Detail (1973), Shampoo (1975), Bound for Glory (1976), Coming Home (1978) and Being There (1979). Great reviews and Oscar nominations became common on Ashby films.
Ashby was always a maverick and a contrary person and success proved difficult for Ashby to handle. He became unreliable due to his dependence on drugs and a reclusive lifestyle. He actually collapsed while making The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together (1982) in Arizona. Although he recovered, he was never the same after that. He began taking too much time in post production on his films and actually had a couple of his later projects taken away from him to be edited by others. He tried to straighten himself out, but in the 1980s, he was considered by many to be unemployable. Just when he felt he was turning a corner in his life, he developed cancer that spread to his liver and colon. He died on December 27, 1988. Actor Sean Penn dedicated his first film as a director, The Indian Runner (1991) to Ashby and John Cassavetes, even though Penn was never directed by either one. Because he did not have a set visual style, many mistake this for no style at all. His career is not discussed as often as the careers of some of his contemporaries.- Sound Department
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Verna Fields was born on 21 March 1918 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an editor, known for Jaws (1975), American Graffiti (1973) and Paper Moon (1973). She was married to Sam Fields. She died on 30 November 1982 in Encino, California, USA.- Editor
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Marcia Lucas was born on 4 October 1945 in Modesto, California, USA. She is an editor and producer, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), American Graffiti (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976). She was previously married to Tom Rodrigues, George Lucas and George Michael Cooper.- Editor
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Richard Chew was born on 28 June 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an editor and cinematographer, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Conversation (1974). He is married to Liv Torgerson. He was previously married to Barbara Chew.- Editor
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Academy Award winner film editor and also recipient of the Eddie award from the American Cinema Editors, Stu Linder is best remembered for his editing in several films from director Barry Levinson.
Stewart Bridgewater Linder was born on November 8, 1931 in Geneva, Illinois. He began his career as assistant editor on The Misfits (1961) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), working alongside Hollywood's Golden era directors such as John Huston and John Ford. Thanks to his meticulous work on Seconds (1966), director John Frankenheimer offered him the editing duties on Grand Prix (1966). Along with editors Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman and Frank Santillo they composed some of the most fascinating car races ever created, and for their work in the film they won the Academy Award of Best Editing.
After the film's success Linden became an important editor, at times working as an editorial assistant in films for Mike Nichols in the early 1970's. With Diner (1982), a long collaboration with director Barry Levinson has started, spanning for more than 20 years. Their stylistic choices, rhythm and experience can be viewed in countless films and of many different stories and settings, from drama to comedy and suspense. Among the titles Levinson & Linder made together are The Natural (1984), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Tin Men (1987), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Avalon (1990), Bugsy (1991), Sleepers (1996), Wag the Dog (1997) and Rain Man (1988), where Linder was once again nominated for a Best Editing Oscar and Levinson won as Best Director.
The duo collaboration was abruptly ended while filming Man of the Year (2006), when Linden was found dead after suffering a heart-attack on January 12, 2006. It would be their 18th film together.- Editor
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Alan Heim was born on 21 May 1936 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He is an editor, known for All That Jazz (1979), Network (1976) and American History X (1998).- Editor
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Jim Clark was born on 24 May 1931 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He was an editor and director, known for The Mission (1986), The Killing Fields (1984) and Marathon Man (1976). He was married to Laurence Méry-Clark and Jessica Andrew. He died on 25 February 2016 in the UK.- Editor
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Thom Noble was born and raised in London. Educated at Westminster School. He began his professional career in the world of book publishing, then moving to the story department of Pinewood studios. Here he became interested in film editing and in the early1960s worked on several British films as an assistant editor, taking his first credit as sole editor on Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451". After that he edited and directed 2nd Unit for several Westinghouse pictures until meeting up with Ted Kotcheff. In the 1980s he moved to Hollywood and started working with Ted on a regular basis editing films like "First Blood," "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", "Who's Killing The Great Chefs of Europe".etc. He went on to win an Oscar for "Witness" and a nomination for "Thelma and Louise". Recently he has been supervising the editing of several Indian and Chinese movies.- Editor
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Paul Hirsch, A.C.E. has edited over 40 films, among them the first "Star Wars" written and directed by George Lucas, for which he received an Academy Award in 1978, and "The Empire Strikes Back"; 11 films for Brian De Palma, including "Carrie", "Blowout" and "Mission: Impossible"; four for Herbert Ross, including "Footloose", "The Secret of My Success" and "Steel Magnolias"; three for John Hughes, including "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Planes, Trains & Automobiles"; and "Falling Down" for Joel Schumacher. In 2005, he received his second Academy Award nomination for "Ray", a biopic based on the life of Ray Charles, directed by Taylor Hackford. The various genres in his resume include drama, action, horror, musical comedy, fantasy, suspense, mystery and comedy. In 2008, he reunited with Hackford on "Love Ranch." More recently, he edited "Source Code", directed by Duncan Jones, "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol", directed by Brad Bird, "Warcraft", his second picture with Duncan Jones, and has served as additional editor on numerous films. Hirsch was born in NYC. His father, Joseph Hirsch, was a well-known painter whose works are in the permanent collections of major museums in the US, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum. His mother and stepfather, Ruth & Leonard Bocour, were important collectors of 20th Century American painting. He spent part of his childhood growing up in Paris and is fluent in French, as well as somewhat conversant in Italian and British. He studied music at the High School of Music & Art in NYC. He majored in Art History at Columbia University. He is married, with two grown offspring both in the film business, and lives in Pacific Palisades. He is the author of a memoir titled "A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away."- Editor
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Conrad Buff IV was born on 8 July 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an editor, known for Titanic (1997), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and The Abyss (1989).- Editor
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Richard A. Harris was born on 6 February 1934 in New York, USA. He is an editor and director, known for Titanic (1997), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and True Lies (1994).- Editor
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James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the United States in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University before switching to English, and eventually dropping out. He then drove a truck to support his screenwriting ambition. He landed his first professional film job as art director, miniature-set builder, and process-projection supervisor on Roger Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) and had his first experience as a director with a two week stint on Piranha II: The Spawning (1982) before being fired.
He then wrote and directed The Terminator (1984), a futuristic action-thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton. It was a low budget independent film, but Cameron's superb, dynamic direction made it a surprise mainstream success and it is now regarded as one of the most iconic pictures of the 1980s. After this came a string of successful, bigger budget science-fiction action films such as Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). In 1990, Cameron formed his own production company, Lightstorm Entertainment. In 1997, he wrote and directed Titanic (1997), a romance epic about two young lovers from different social classes who meet on board the famous ship. The movie went on to break all box office records and earned eleven Academy Awards. It became the highest grossing movie of all time until 12 years later, Avatar (2009), which invented and pioneered 3D film technology, and it went on to beat "Titanic", and became the first film to cost two billion dollars until 2019 when Marvel took the record.
James Cameron is now one of the most sought-after directors in Hollywood. He was formerly married to producer Gale Anne Hurd, who produced several of his films. In 2000, he married actress Suzy Amis, who appeared in Titanic, and they have three children.- Editor
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Film editor John Gilbert won an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Film Editing for his work on Mel Gibson's 2016 war drama Hacksaw Ridge. A native of New Zealand, Gilbert has edited 23 feature films including Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which garnered him the Satellite Award for Best Editing, and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and an ACE Eddie Award. He also edited Director Alison Maclean's Crush, which was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or award.
In addition, Gilbert edited Simon Kinberg's 2022 film 355, and 2018's Adrift for Director Baltasar Kormakur. He is currently working on Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Damsel for Netflix.- Producer
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Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then immediately started to film everything he saw, showing it afterwards to everyone. In his teen years, films were his hobby. Sometimes he said to his mother he would go to a friend's home, when in fact he would go to the cinema. His ambition was to know every theatre in the city. Near his house there were two studios, Studios Churubusco and Studios 212. After finishing school, Cuarón decided to study cinema right away. He tried to study at C.C.C. (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica) but wasn't accepted because at that time they weren't accepting students under twenty-four years old. His mother didn't support that idea of cinema, so he studied philosophy in the morning and in the afternoon he went to the C.U.E.C. (Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos). During that time he met many people who would later become his collaborators and friends. One of them was Luis Estrada. Cuaron also became good friends with Carlos Marcovich and Emmanuel Lubezki. Luis Estrada directed a short called "Vengance is Mine", on which Alfonso and Emmanuel collaborated. The film was in English, a fact which bothered many teachers of the C.U.E.C. such as Marcela Fernández Violante. The disagreement caused such arguments that in 1985, Alfonso was expelled from the university.
During his time studying at C.U.E.C. he met Mariana Elizondo, and with her he had his first son, Jonás Cuarón. After Alfonso was expelled, he thought he could never be a director and so went on to work in a Museum so he could sustain his family. One day, José Luis García Agraz and Fernando CáMara went to the museum and made an offer to Cuarón. They asked him to work as cable person in "La víspera (1982)", a job which was to prove to be his salvation. After that he was assistant director in Garcia Agraz's "Nocaut (1984)", as well as numerous other films.
He was also second unit director in "Gaby: A True Story (1987)", and co-wrote and directed some episodes in the series "A Hora Marcada (1967)". One New Year's Eve, he decided he would not continue to be an assistant director, and with his brother Carlos started writing what would be his first feature film: "Love in the Time of Hysteria (1991)" (Love in the time of Hysteria). After the screenplay was written, the problem became how to get financial backing for the movie. I.M.C.I.N.E. (Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia), which supports movies financially, had already decided which projects it would support that year, much to Alfonso's initial chagrin. However, the director of one of those already-chosen projects was unable to direct it, so his project was canceled, and "Sólo con tu pareja" took its place. Despite this being chosen, there was a lot of tension between Alfonso and the I.M.C.I.N.E. executives. Nevertheless, after the movie was finished, it was a huge success. In Toronto festival the films won many awards, and Alfonso started to be noticed by Hollywood producers. Sydney Pollack was the first one to invite him to shoot in Hollywood. He proposed a feature film to be directed by Alfonso, but the project didn't work and was canceled. Alfonso moved to Los Angeles without anything concrete, and stayed with some friends, as he had no money. Soon after that, Pollack called him again to direct an episode called "Murder, Obliquely (1993)" of the series "Fallen Angels (1993)", that was the first job he had in U.S., and also the first time he worked with Alan Rickman.
After a while, and no real directing jobs, Alfonso wanted to direct something as he needed money. He finally signed a contract with Warner Brothers to direct the film Addicted to Love (1995). However, one night, he read the screenplay for another film, A Little Princess (1995) and fell in love with it. He talked to Warner Brothers and after some meetings he gave up directing "Addicted to Love" in order to do "A Little Princess". Even thought it wasn't a great box office success, the film received two nominations for the Oscars, and won many other awards. After "A Little Princess" Alfonso developed a project with Richard Gere starring. The project was canceled, but Cuarón got an offer from Twentieth Century Fox to direct the modern adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic Great Expectations (1998). He initially didn't want to direct it but the studio insisted, and in the end he accepted it. The experience was very painful and difficult for him mainly because there was never a definitive screenplay.
He then reunited with producer Jorge Vergara and founded both Anhelo Productions and Moonson Productions. Anhelo's first picture was also Alfonso's next film, the erotic road movie "And Your Mother Too (2001)", which was a huge success. During the promotion of the film in Venice, Alfonso met the cinema critic Annalisa Bugliani. They started dating and married that same year. "Children of Men (2006)" was to be Alfonso's next film, a futuristic, dystopian story. During the pre-production of the film, Warner Brothers invited Alfonso to direct the third Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)", an offer which he accepted after some consideration. The film would prove to be the greatest box office success of his career.
In 2003, he had a daughter named Bu Cuaron, and in February 2005 another son, called Olmo Teodoro Cuarón. Alfonso Cuarón signed a three-year first-look deal with Warner Brothers, which allowed his films to be distributed world-wide. He directed one five-minute segment of the anthology film Paris, I Love You (2006) with Nick Nolte and Ludivine Sagnier. His next project, the futuristic film Children of Men (2006) with Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 having been nominated for three Academy Awards. After his youngest son was diagnosed with autism and the divorce from Annalisa Bugliani he took a break from directing and settled in London where he plans to work on his next projects.
In 2013, Alfonso directed the space thriller Gravity (2013), which would go win 7 academy awards.
Alfonso is the only filmmaker to have ever won twice for a clean sweep for the awards, for "Gravity" and "Roma", for Best Director at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards.- Additional Crew
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American film editor Tom Cross, A.C.E., began his career in 1997 as an assistant editor on diverse projects such as We Own the Night, Crazy Heart and the Primetime Emmy Award-Winning drama series Deadwood. He came to worldwide prominence in 2015 when he won the Academy Award for Best Editing, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing, and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing (among other honors) for his work on Damien Chazelle's film Whiplash.
In 2016, Cross reunited with writer/director Damien Chazelle on the romantic musical comedy La La Land for which he was nominated again for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. He won the 2017 American Cinema Editor's Award for his work on the film.
Cross edited the 2017 Western drama Hostiles for director Scott Cooper and 2018's First Man directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy. He was nominated for a 2019 BAFTA award for Best Editing for the movie and an ACE Award for best edited feature film. He won the Critics' Choice Awards for Best Editing for 2019. Cross also won a BAFTA for best editing for the James Bond film No Time to Die, directed by Cary Fukunaga.
Cross was nominated for an ACE award for Best Edited Feature Film - Comedy in 2016 for Joy, directed by David O. Russell for 20th Century Fox. In 2015, Cross edited The Driftless Area, directed by Zachary Sluser for Unified Pictures, which was included in the Tribeca Film Festival's Official Selection.
His latest project, Damien Chazelle's 2022 Babylon for Paramount, garnered him a nomination from the Critics' Choice Awards for Best Editing.
Cross recently finished editing James Wan's upcoming film Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.- Editor
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Mikkel E.G. Nielsen was born on 19 July 1973 in Århus, Denmark. He is an editor and director, known for Sound of Metal (2019), The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) and Beasts of No Nation (2015).- Editor
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Warren Low was born on 12 August 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an editor, known for The Letter (1940), True Grit (1969) and The Rose Tattoo (1955). He died on 27 July 1989 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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Four-time Oscar nominee Dorothy Spencer was one of the versatile stalwarts of the Hollywood studio system. She began her career as a cutter with Fox and subsequently enjoyed a close collaboration with the independent producer Walter Wanger at Paramount (1936) and United Artists (1937-41). Her longest career spell was at 20th Century Fox, from 1943 to 1963, during which time her assignments ranged from war/action movies and gothic thrillers to large-scale Biblical epics shot in CinemaScope.
Testimony to the high level of competence and consistency of her work can be found in the frequency of her associations with prominent directors: Tay Garnett (Stand-In (1937), Trade Winds (1938), Eternally Yours (1939)); John Ford (Stagecoach (1939), My Darling Clementine (1946), What Price Glory (1952)); Ernst Lubitsch (To Be or Not to Be (1942), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Cluny Brown (1946)); Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Dragonwyck (1946), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Cleopatra (1963)); Edward Dmytryk (Broken Lance (1954), The Left Hand of God (1955), The Young Lions (1958)); Henry Hathaway (Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), North to Alaska (1960), Circus World (1964)); and Mark Robson (Von Ryan's Express (1965), Valley of the Dolls (1967), Earthquake (1974)).
Spencer was at her best working on action subjects, her cutting instrumental to augmenting the director's work in creating or sustaining the desired level of suspense. Arguably, the most difficult task of her lengthy career was having to pare down the 70,000 feet of film shot for the epic production of "Cleopatra" to 'a mere' 22,000 feet. Spencer retired in 1979. Though the Oscar ultimately eluded her, she was awarded an American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 1989. She was also presented with a 'Golden Scissors Award' for her outstanding work on the disaster epic "Earthquake".- Editor
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Michael Luciano was born on 2 May 1909 in Mcadoo, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for The Dirty Dozen (1967), The Longest Yard (1974) and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). He died on 15 September 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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Richard Marks was born on 10 November 1943 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for As Good as It Gets (1997), Dick Tracy (1990) and Apocalypse Now (1979). He was married to Barbara Marks. He died on 31 December 2018 in New York City, New York, USA.- Editor
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William Holmes was born on 23 February 1904 in Illinois, USA. He was an editor, known for Sergeant York (1941), Dark Victory (1939) and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932). He was married to Ova T.. He died on 2 February 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
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Although born in North Dakota, Francis D. Lyon's film career began in England as an editor on several prestigious J. Arthur Rank productions. Coming to Hollywood, he worked as an editor or supervising editor on numerous films, and won an Academy Award for editing Body and Soul (1947). Turning to directing in 1955, Lyon's output has been mostly routine, although Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), based on a true Civil War incident, was an exciting, well-made adventure. In the 1960s, after churning out several low-grade sci-fi epics, Lyon turned to episodic TV series.- Editor
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Peter Taylor was born on 28 February 1922 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK. He was an editor, known for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Third Man (1949) and Summertime (1955). He was married to Elizabeth Holden and Franca Silvi. He died on 17 December 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Editor
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Thomas Stanford was born in 1924 in Germany. He was an editor, known for West Side Story (1961), Jeremiah Johnson (1972) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). He died on 23 December 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.- Editor
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Frank Santillo was born on 8 October 1912 in New Mexico, USA. He was an editor, known for Grand Prix (1966), The Catered Affair (1956) and Ride the High Country (1962). He died on 30 June 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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Henry Berman was born on 1 January 1914 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for Grand Prix (1966), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) and Babe (1975). He died on 12 June 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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Françoise Bonnot was born on 17 August 1939 in Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. She was an editor and actress, known for Z (1969), Missing (1982) and The Tenant (1976). She was married to Henri Verneuil. She died on 9 June 2018 in Paris, France.- Editor
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Hugh S. Fowler was born on 24 July 1912 in Missouri, USA. He was an editor, known for Patton (1970), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Planet of the Apes (1968). He died on 2 August 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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David Bretherton was born on 29 February 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an editor, known for Cabaret (1972), Westworld (1973) and Clue (1985). He died on 11 May 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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Richard Halsey was born to be a film editor. While in junior high school at Bancroft Jr High, they needed someone to run the projectors for different classes so he volunteered in order to get out of class, so started his first experience with film. He was also in the orchestra with Ricky Nelson. Ricky played clarinet and Richard played oboe - not very well.
Richard attended Hollywood High school with John Phillip Law, Salley Kellerman, Mike Farrell,and Yvette Mimieux. After high school Richard got a job at Warner Brothers mail dept and then moved into the music editing dept, and then got a job at 20th Century Fox music editorial with Ken Hall and a lot of great editors.
Richard was then drafted into the army and spent 21 months and 16 days there, getting out early to go to College. That did not last long because he got a job at 20th Century Fox in the editorial dept during summer break and started work on Peyton Place with Editor George Nicholson, who taught him the basics of film editing. Once you learn that the rest is up to your own personal creativity.
Richard then became an editor on Peyton Place at the age of 28 and moved into feature editing, winning the Oscar for Rocky at the age of 36. Some 60 pictures later he continues to live in the Hollywood Hills and edit films. He is married to Editor Colleen Halsey and has two beautiful daughters still at home, to be continued....- Editor
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Scott Conrad, the Academy Award-winning film editor (Rocky), began his career in 1964 at 20th Century Fox. Twenty years old at the time, he worked his way up from the mail room. In his search to discover his niche in the studio, he worked for a short time in the Publicity Department covering such films as The Sound of Music and Goodbye, Charlie. The more he learned about the craft of film making, the more he was drawn to film editing. Many of the producers and directors such as Frank Schaffner, Vincente Minelli and Robert Wise encouraged Conrad, explaining that editing was the key to good film making.
Robert Mintz, who was the head of TV Post Production, gave Conrad his opportunity. At that time the Film Editors Union was a closed union membership was coveted and very limited. In the previous five years, only 3 new members had been accepted. It was a Catch 22 situation, said Conrad. In order to be accepted into the Editors Guild, you had to have a job as an editor and in order to have a job as an editor, you had to be in the union. In September of 1964, Robert Mintz told Conrad that he would hire him on a temporary basis and that if he were to remain employed for ninety days, the Editors Guild would accept him.
Soon the temporary job became a permanent job and Conrad was accepted into the Editors Guild. However, according to Conrad, You first served as an apprentice and when you were lucky enough to get the opportunity, you moved up to assistant editor. But at that time, you had to be in the Guild for a minimum of eight years before you could become an editor.
After working as an apprentice and assistant for two years, Conrad became impatient waiting for the opportunity to actually cut a film of his own. In 1966 he returned to college to complete his education, this time majoring in Cinema at the University of Southern California. While at USC he was mentored by some of the legendary professors of the Cinema School such as Bernie Kantor and Herb Farmer and exchanged ideas with fellow students John Milius and George Lucas.
While working on his senior project, Conrad who had been working part time at 20th Century Fox to pay for his tuition, was offered an opportunity which he couldn't turn down. The Film Editor on Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid was fired by director George Roy Hill. The assistant editor, John Howard, was given the job of editor and in turn asked Conrad to move up from apprentice to assistant editor. Needless to say, even though it meant dropping out of USC, he accepted.
George Roy Hills assistant on Butch Cassidy was Ron Preisman, a close friend of Conrad. While on location in Colorado, Preisman asked Hill if he could use Hills 16mm Bolex to shoot a few of the background scenes, such as the trains safe being blown up. Conrad and Preisman began collaborating on what other scenes they could film and came up with the idea of doing a behind the scenes documentary. Cinematographer Conrad Hall taught Preisman how to use the camera and the footage improved. Conrad asked the studio for a 16mm Moviola and stayed late at night playing with the footage and shaping it into a film. That project became The Making of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid and won an Emmy for Best Documentary.
With the success of the Butch Cassidy documentary came what could have been an end to Conrads career as a film editor. He had violated the sacrosanct eight year rule and was brought before the Editors Guild Board to explain why he should not be expelled from the union. Fortunately Conrad was able to persuade the Board that he had begun the project merely as an educational experiment and had no idea that it would become a full-fledged film, garnering such an award.
The Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid documentary launched Conrads career as an editor and in 1972 he was finally able to attain recognized status as a Film Editor. At first he worked as an Associate Editor under the legendary editors Lou Lombardo (The Wild Bunch) and Danford Greene (M.A.S.H). Subsequently he was the sole editor on some low-budget films such as The Messiah of Evil. In 1974 he teamed up with director-actor-producer L.Q.Jones to edit A Boy & His Dog. That film was not only a success at the time it was released, but has gone on to become a cult favorite and is still played in art house theaters.
Finally, in 1976 Conrad was given the opportunity he had been looking for when fellow editor Richard Halsey asked Scott to help him edit Rocky. Their collaboration resulted in an Academy Award for Best Film Editing and his career took off.
He currently resides in Malibu with his wife Aissa Wayne Conrad.- Editor
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Douglas Stewart was born on 27 March 1919 in Canada. He was an editor, known for The Right Stuff (1983), The Shootist (1976) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). He was married to Gloria J. Stewart. He died on 3 March 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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Glenn Farr was born in March 1946. He was an editor, known for The Right Stuff (1983), Commando (1985) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988). He died on 25 May 2023.- Editor
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Stephen A. Rotter is known for The Right Stuff (1983), Dog Day Afternoon (1975) and Holocaust (1978).- Additional Crew
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Tom Rolf was born on 31 December 1931 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an editor, known for WarGames (1983), The Right Stuff (1983) and Taxi Driver (1976). He died on 14 July 2014 in Saint-Calais, Sarthe, France.- Editor
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Gabriella Cristiani was born in 1949 in Foggia, Puglia, Italy. She is an editor and director, known for The Last Emperor (1987), Beyond the Trek (2017) and Last Tango in Paris (1972).- Editor
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David Brenner was born on 3 November 1962 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was an editor, known for Independence Day (1996), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). He was married to Amber Brenner. He died on 17 February 2022 in West Hollywood, California, USA.- Editor
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Herbert Neil Travis was born on 12th October 1936 and studied Advertising and Theatre Arts at the University of California in his native Los Angeles. He began his career as an assistant editor at Paramount studios in his early twenties,becoming second editor on a series of television shows for Fox and in 1970 received his first credit as a film cutter for 'The Travelling Executioner'. His career spanned some four decade,the highlight probably being the Academy Award he received for his work on' Dancing With Wolves',paring an extremely long director's cut down to the finished product. A member of the American Cinema Editors society he received a career achievement award in 2010 and his last,Emmy-nominated,work was editing the 79th Academy Awards. Neil Travis died of natural causes on March 28 2012 at his home in Arroyo Grande,California.- Editor
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Zach Staenberg was born in 1954 in the USA. He is an editor and producer, known for The Matrix (1999), In Time (2011) and Ender's Game (2013).- Editor
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Martin Walsh was born on 8 November 1955 in Manchester, England, UK. He is an editor, known for Chicago (2002), V for Vendetta (2005) and Tetris (2023).- Editor
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Jamie Selkirk is known for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), King Kong (2005) and Heavenly Creatures (1994).- Editor
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Hughes Winborne is known for Crash (2004), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Ghost in the Shell (2017).- Editor
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Bob Murawski was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in the northeast "Thumb" area of the state. Murawski was the valedictorian at his high school in Bad Axe, Michigan. He graduated from Michigan State University with a major in Telecommunications. Soon after graduating, Murawski interned with Detroit-based film sub-distributor, Bob Mason of Mason Releasing.- Editor
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Academy-Award winning film editor Chris Innis, ACE, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in film studies, and received an MFA in live action filmmaking from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the creative arts school founded by Walt Disney. Innis won the 2010 Oscar, BAFTA, American Cinema Editors (ACE), and International Press Academy's Golden Satellite awards for "Best Film Editing" for "The Hurt Locker," shared with co-editor, Bob Murawski, ACE. Chris Innis has served as an associate board member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE).
Like director Joel Coen, Innis hails from the cutting rooms of director Sam Raimi, among other filmmakers. Some of Innis' editing credits include Sam Raimi's cult TV show "American Gothic," Raimi's "The Gift" and "Spider-man" (Music editor: temp score), as well as Ridley Scott's Navy Seals film "G.I.Jane" (Associate Editor). She worked her way up alongside film editors, Pietro Scalia ACE and Joe Hutshing ACE, both of whom she started assisted on the Academy Award-winning Oliver Stone film, "JFK."
Innis is also a writer-filmmaker who has been a semi-finalist in the Academy of Arts and Sciences Don & Gee Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship and the Chesterfield Writers Film Project Screenwriting Competition. Her short films have screened at several major film festivals and she has written, directed and produced karaoke videos for Pioneer Electronics, as well as edited music videos including the first directed by Jordan Scott (daughter of Ridley Scott), and for artists such as Ice Cube, Onyx and DMX. She has also produced for distributor Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars, including the recent digital restorations on Blu-ray/DVD of classic films including 1966's "The Big Gundown" and the 1968 film, "The Swimmer." She wrote, directed, produced and edited "The Story of the Swimmer" a five-part, 2-1/2 hour documentary on the making of "The Swimmer." Innis is a fellow and current member of the Ryan Murphy Television Directing Mentorship Program (Half Initiative).
Chris Innis has lectured and been on panels at film schools, universities and public schools including at The University of Southern California (USC) film school, The American Film Institute (AFI), The University of Nebraska Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film in Lincoln Nebraska, The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Lincoln Nebraska Public Schools Arts & Humanities Focus Program and John F. Kennedy public high school's filmmaking magnet program in Los Angeles, California.- Editor
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Mark Sanger was born on 13 January 1974 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an editor, known for Jurassic World Dominion (2022), Gravity (2013) and Joe Bell (2020). He has been married to Becky since 1 December 2002. They have one child.