Lee Smith

Lee Smith (born 1960) is an ACE-certified film editor. He began his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993) (for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound), The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and Holy Smoke! (1999). Smith was also editing films during this interval; he was one of the editors for Robocop 2 (1990).

He began his notable collaboration with director Peter Weir on the 1982 film The Year of Living Dangerously, on which he was an associate editor working with Weir's longtime editor William M. Anderson. He was credited as a co-editor with Anderson for Fearless (1993) and for The Truman Show (1998).^[1] He was the sole editor for Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), for which Smith was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and for an "Eddie Award" from the American Cinema Editors.

More recently, Smith has edited three films with director Christopher Nolan. He was nominated for a second Academy Award and American Cinema Editors Award for The Dark Knight (2008).

Filmography

Film editor

Based on the Internet Movie Database. The director and any co-editors for each film are indicated in parentheses.

• Dead End Drive-In (Trenchard-Smith-1986; with Alan Lake)
• Howling III (Mora-1987)
• Communion (Mora-1989)
• Blinky Bill (Gross-1992; with G. Y. Jerzy)
• Turtle Beach (Wallace-1992)
• RoboCop 2 (Kershner-1990; with Armen Minasian, Julie Offer, and Deborah Zeitman)
• Fearless (Weir-1993; with William M. Anderson and Armen Minasian)
• The Truman Show (Weir-1998; with William M. Anderson)
• Two Hands (Jordan-1999)
• Risk (White-2000)
• Buffalo Soldiers (Jordan-2001)
• Black and White (Lahiff-2002)
• The Rage in Placid Lake (McNamara-2003)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir-2003) (nominated for Academy Award for Film Editing)
• Batman Begins (Nolan-2005)
• The Prestige (Nolan-2006)
• The Dark Knight (Nolan-2008) (nominated for Academy Award for Film Editing)
• The Way Back (Weir-2010)

Sound designer or editor

• Green Card (1990)
• Fearless (1993)
• The Piano (1993)
• The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
• The Truman Show (1998)

References

External links

• Lee Smith (editor) at the Internet Movie Database
• Kunkes, Michael (2008). "Behind the Cape & Cowl: Shedding Light on the Post for ‘The Dark Knight,’ Part 1". Editors Guild Magazine. http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/exclusive/exclusive_071708.htm. 
• Kunkes, Michael (2008). "Behind the Cape & Cowl: Shedding Light on the Post for ‘The Dark Knight,’ Part 2". Editors Guild Magazine. http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/exclusive/exclusive_072408.htm. 

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