Lee Smith (editor)

Lee Smith (born 1960 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) 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).

Career

Smith 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 six 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.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1986	Dead End Drive-In	Brian Trenchard-Smith
1987	Howling III	Philippe Mora
1989	Communion
1990	RoboCop 2	Irvin Kershner
1992	Blinky Bill	Yoram Gross
	Turtle Beach	Stephen Wallace
1993	Fearless	Peter Weir
1998	The Truman Show
1999	Two Hands	Gregor Jordan	AACTA Award for Best Editing
2001	Risk	Alan White
	Buffalo Soldiers	Gregor Jordan
2002	Black and White	Craig Lahiff
2003	The Rage in Placid Lake	Tony McNamara
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Peter Weir	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
2005	Batman Begins	Christopher Nolan
2006	The Prestige
2008	The Dark Knight		Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated—ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
2010	The Way Back	Peter Weir
	Inception	Christopher Nolan	Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing Nominated—ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
2011	X-Men: First Class	Matthew Vaughn
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	Christopher Nolan	Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing
2013	Elysium	Neill Blomkamp
	Enders Game	Gavin Hood
2014	Interstellar	Christopher Nolan
2015	Spectre	Sam Mendes

References

1. Hollyn, Norman (November–December 2003). "Lee Smith on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World". The Editors Guild Magazine 24 (6). Archived from the original on 2008-05-21.

External links

• Lee Smith 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.
• Kunkes, Michael (2008). "Behind the Cape & Cowl: Shedding Light on the Post for ‘The Dark Knight,’ Part 2". Editors Guild Magazine.