Lee Smith (editor)

Lee Smith (born 1960) is an Australian film editor who has worked in the film industry since the 1980s. He began his film career as a sound editor on such films as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993), The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and Holy Smoke! (1999). During breaks he started editing films like Robocop 2 (1990). Smith has served as editor for all of Christopher Nolan's feature films, since Batman Begins (2005).

Life and career

Smith was born in Sydney. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004) and The Dark Knight (2008). He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for The Dark Knight and for Inception (2010). He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound for The Piano (1993). 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 seven films with director Christopher Nolan. He was nominated for a second Academy Award and American Cinema Editors Award for The Dark Knight (2008). In 2010, he received another nomination for the American Cinema Editors Award for his editing work on Inception. In 2018, he received an Academy Award for his work on Nolan's Dunkirk.

Filmography

References

External links

• Lee Smith on IMDb
• Kunkes, Michael (2008). "Behind the Cape & Cowl: Shedding Light on the Post for 'The Dark Knight,' Part 1". Editors Guild Magazine. Archived from the original on 2008-12-22. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
• Kunkes, Michael (2008). "Behind the Cape & Cowl: Shedding Light on the Post for 'The Dark Knight,' Part 2". Editors Guild Magazine. Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2009-01-05.