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List of film director and editor collaborations

 
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This list of film director and editor collaborations includes longstanding, notable partnerships of directors and editors. The list's importance is that directors and editors typically work together on the editing of a film, which is the ultimate step of filmmaking during which the dozens or hundreds of hours of raw film "footage" are pruned and woven into the final movie. Film critic Walter Kerr has argued that editing is comparable in its importance to directing itself, and should be credited as such.[1] Quentin Tarantino has been quoted as saying, "The best collaborations are the director-editor teams, where they can finish each other's sentences," and that his own editor, Sally Menke, is his "only, truly genuine collaborator."[2]

Crediting the editing of a film is made more difficult by the fact that the relative contributions of the director and the editor vary enormously. At one extreme lies the old Hollywood studio system; as described by Lizzie Francke, this was the "period when the editor was often left to his or her own devices in the cutting room. The pressures of production turn-over during the hey-day of the studio system often meant that the director could not be around to supervise since they were on to their next production."[3][4][5] At the other extreme lie "auteur" directors who personally edit their own films. The Coen Brothers are a contemporary example. Cecil B. DeMille's silent films (through 1918) provide an early one.[6]

The following list of notable director and editor collaborations does not attempt to parse the relative contributions of the individuals. The collaborations on this list have each extended over a decade or more, and have produced at least one film nominated for an Academy Award or BAFTA Award as best film, for best directing, or for best editing; one such film is noted for each collaboration. The restriction to Oscar-nominated or BAFTA-nominated films does exclude most directors and editors whose films are not in English. The dates listed for each collaboration are based on searches of the Internet Movie Database.

Contents

35 years and more

30 – 34 years

25 – 29 years

20 – 24 years

15 – 19 years

9 – 14 years

References

  1. ^ Kerr, Walter (1985). "Films are made in the Cutting Room," New York Times, March 17, 1985. Online version retrieved November 15, 2007.
  2. ^ Seif, Dena (2007). "Editors pick 'Babel,' 'Departed': 'Office,' 'Wire' win at ACE Eddie Awards", Variety, February 19, 2007. Online version retrieved 2008-07-14.
  3. ^ Francke, Lizzie (April 30, 1996). "Invisible hand in the cutting room". The Guardian: p. 14. http://www.editorsbench.com/documents/mclean.html.  Obituary for Barbara McLean.
  4. ^ For many years at MGM the director of a film did not necessarily supervise its editing. Margaret Booth, a distinguished editor herself, supervised the editing department under the patronage of the studio's head Louis B. Mayer.
  5. ^ Gomery, Douglas (2000). "Margaret Booth", in Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (editors), International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, Edition 4 (St. James Press), ISBN 978-1558624498. Online version of article retrieved December 24, 2007.
  6. ^ See the Anne Bauchens article and the references therein.

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