Christopher Greenbury (September 24, 1951 – January 4, 2007) was a British film editor with more than 30 film credits dating from 1979's The Muppet Movie.[1] With Tariq Anwar, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for American Beauty (1999).[2] American Beauty is a serious drama; Greenbury generally edited comedy films, including six directed by the Farrelly brothers commencing with 1994's Dumb and Dumber.
Greenbury had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.[3]
Selected filmography
The director and release date of each film are indicated in parenthesis.
- Wild Hogs (Becker - 2007)
- Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (Shankman - 2005)
- The Pacifier (Shankman - 2005)
- Stuck on You (Farrelly - 2003)
- Daddy Day Camp (Savage - 2003)
- Daddy Day Care (Carr - 2003)
- Me, Myself & Irene (Farrelly - 2000)
- American Beauty (Mendes - 1999)
- There's Something About Mary (Farrelly - 1998)
- Bio-Dome (Bloom - 1996)
- Kingpin (Farrelly - 1996)
- Dumb and Dumber (Farrelly - 1994)
- The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (Zucker - 1991)
- Haunted Honeymoon (Wilder - 1986)
- The Heavenly Kid (Medoway - 1985)
- Doctor Detroit (Pressman - 1983)
- Some Kind of Hero (Pressman - 1983)
- Where the Buffalo Roam (Linson - 1980)
Editing award nominations for American Beauty
In addition to winning the BAFTA, the editors of American Beauty were also nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing, an ACE Eddie Award, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award, the Online Film Critics Society Award and the Satellite Award.
References
- ^ "Passages", Editors' Guild Magazine Vol. 28, No. 2, March-April 2007. Online version retrieved 2008-07-12.
- ^ Christopher Greenbury at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.
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