10 FAVORITE EDITORS
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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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Hank Corwin is an Academy Award nominated film editor and additional editor who worked with several directors such as Oliver Stone, Adam McKay, Terrence Malick and Robert Redford, just to mention a few names. Sharp, fast-paced and innovative in his techniques, Corwin's ability to create the exact mood and rhythm for the scene is what makes him one of the most interesting film editors working today, growing more each film goes by.
Corwin's career began as an additional editor working under the supervision of Oliver Stone in the epic JFK (1991), which won the Best Film Editing Oscar (awarded to main editors Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia) and Best Cinematography. After enjoying his work in that movie, Stone asked him to be his editor in three other films: Natural Born Killers (1994) - where Corwin has an uncredited role as Mickey Knox's headless father -, Nixon (1995), and U Turn (1997). With the great Terrence Malick and working along other editors, Corwin worked in The New World (2005), The Tree of Life (2011) and Song to Song (2017).
But it was his collaboration with Adam McKay and his more serious films dealing with the economical crisis of 2008 or Dick Cheney's biography that Hank Corwin got a boost and recognition from awards and mainstream audiences. The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018) brought him two Oscar nominations, one Bafta win and one Eddie award from the American Cinema Editors. Both films dealt with real life stories, used of humor, filled with references from culture or politics aspects which makes the audience think and engage in the scenario, all thanks to the ability of a skillful director aligned with a talented editor.- Writer
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater creative freedom. Drunken Angel (1948) was the first film he made without extensive studio interference, and marked his first collaboration with Toshirô Mifune. In the coming decades, the two would make 16 movies together, and Mifune became as closely associated with Kurosawa's films as was John Wayne with the films of Kurosawa's idol, John Ford. After working in a wide range of genres, Kurosawa made his international breakthrough film Rashomon (1950) in 1950. It won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and first revealed the richness of Japanese cinema to the West. The next few years saw the low-key, touching Ikiru (1952) (Living), the epic Seven Samurai (1954), the barbaric, riveting Shakespeare adaptation Throne of Blood (1957), and a fun pair of samurai comedies Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962). After a lean period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide. He survived, and made a small, personal, low-budget picture with Dodes'ka-den (1970), a larger-scale Russian co-production Dersu Uzala (1975) and, with the help of admirers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, the samurai tale Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980), which Kurosawa described as a dry run for Ran (1985), an epic adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear." He continued to work into his eighties with the more personal Dreams (1990), Rhapsody in August (1991) and Madadayo (1993). Kurosawa's films have always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan, where critics have viewed his adaptations of Western genres and authors (William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky and Evan Hunter) with suspicion - but he's revered by American and European film-makers, who remade Rashomon (1950) as The Outrage (1964), Seven Samurai (1954), as The Magnificent Seven (1960), Yojimbo (1961), as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Hidden Fortress (1958), as Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).- Editor
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- Sound Department
Sally Menke was born on 17 December 1953 in Mineola, New York, USA. She was an editor and producer, known for Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). She was married to Dean Parisot. She died on 27 September 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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- Producer
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).- Sound Department
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- Editorial Department
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
- Editorial Department
- Music Department
- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Producer
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).- Editor
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- Editorial Department
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
- Editorial Department
- Sound Department
George Tomasini has been something of an unsung hero in the editing business. He was for several years under contract to Paramount, before joining Alfred Hitchcock to collaborate on nine projects, beginning with Rear Window (1954). This partnership was to span a ten-year period, ending in Tomasini's premature death from a massive heart attack at the age of 55. Hitch's subsequent films never again enjoyed the same level of artistic success. While Tomasini may not have had the same creative freedom in selecting his own shots as other editors, he nonetheless became highly intuitive about the director's wishes. Tomasini was a master of time and space in editing to heighten suspense and determine mood. Much of Hitch's best films were strongly driven by editing, in particular Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963) (another classic, the sub-Hitchcockian thriller Cape Fear (1962) also falls into this category, though directed by J. Lee Thompson).
Tall and handsome, Tomasini was married to glamorous Hollywood star Mary Brian.