Dylan Tichenor

Tichenor grew up watching films with his father.[1] He graduated from Philadelphia's Greene Street Friends School in 1982 and Central High School in 1986.

Tichenor worked as an editor and Geraldine Peroni's assistant on several films in the 1990s, including The Player (1992). His first credit as an editor was for Altman's Jazz '34 (1996). In 2004, Tichenor stepped in to finish his mentor's editing of Brokeback Mountain.[1][2]

Tichenor is one of the notable collaborators for Paul Thomas Anderson's films. He was nominated for the Satellite Award for Boogie Nights (1997) and the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for There Will Be Blood.

Tichenor has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.[3]

Tichenor was the primary editor on the following films, unless noted otherwise. The film directors are indicated in parentheses.

• The Player (Robert Altman - 1992) (apprentice editor)
• Short Cuts (Robert Altman - 1993) (assistant editor)
• Prêt-à-Porter (Robert Altman - 1994) (assistant editor)
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Alan Rudolph - 1994) (associate editor)
• Jazz '34 (Robert Altman - 1996) (with Brent Carpenter)
• Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson - 1996) (post-production coordinator)
• Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson - 1997)
• Hurlyburly (Anthony Drazan - 1998)
• Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson - 1999) (also associate producer)
• Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan - 2000)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson - 2001)
• Cold Creek Manor (Mike Figgis - 2003)
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Brad Silberling - 2004) (additional editor)
• Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee - 2005) (with Geraldine Peroni, who died during production)
• There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson - 2007)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik - 2007)
• Doubt (John Patrick Shanley - 2008)
• Whip It (Drew Barrymore - 2009)
• The Town (Ben Affleck - 2010)
• Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow - 2012) (with William Goldenberg)
• Child 44 (Daniel Espinosa - 2015)
• Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson - 2017)
• Antlers (Scott Cooper - 2020)
• The Eternals (Chloé Zhao - 2020)

• List of film director and editor collaborations (four films with Paul Thomas Anderson since 1997; There Will Be Blood was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing).

• Dylan Tichenor on IMDb