Leslie Jones (editor)

Leslie Jones
Born United States
Occupation Film editor
Parent(s) Robert C. Jones
Relatives Harmon Jones (grandfather)

Leslie Jones is an American film editor with more than a dozen film credits and nominations for several major film editing awards.

Life and career

Jones is the daughter of film editor Robert C. Jones and the granddaughter of editor Harmon Jones,[1] each of whom has been nominated for an Academy Award for editing. Early in her career, Jones was the assistant editor for her father on two films, See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) and The Babe (1992). She had several editing credits in the early 1990s for independent films and documentaries, and was the associate editor (with editor Billy Weber) on Grumpier Old Men (1995). Her first editing credit on a major studio film was for Murder at 1600 (1997), which she co-edited with Weber.

Jones, Billy Weber and Saar Klein were widely recognized for their work on Terrence Malick's 1998 film The Thin Red Line. They were nominated for an Academy Award, an American Cinema Editors Award and a Satellite Award. Jones was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Award for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2002 film Punch-Drunk Love.

Filmography

Further reading

  • Torgerson, Liv (May–June 1999). "Conversations with Billy Weber and Leslie Jones". Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter. 20 (3). Archived from the original on 2006-03-23.

References

  1. ↑ Archerd, Army (1999-02-24). "Grammys take center stage". Variety. Retrieved 2008-08-29.


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