Ralph Dawson

Ralph Dawson (born in Westborough, Massachusetts on April 18, 1897; died November 15, 1962) was a film editor who also did some acting, directing, and screenwriting. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing four times, and won the Award three times.

Selected filmography as editor

1925: Lady of the Night
1928: The Singing Fool with co-editor Harold McCord
1929: Stark Mad
1928: Tenderloin
1929: The Desert Song
1930: Under a Texas Moon
1931: The Mad Genius
1933: Girl Missing
1934: Something Always Happens with co-editor Bert Bates
1935: A Midsummer Night's Dream - First Academy Award
1936: Anthony Adverse - Second Academy Award win
1936: The Story of Louis Pasteur
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood - Third Academy Award win
1938: Four Daughters
1939: Daughters Courageous
1939: Espionage Agent
1942: Larceny, Inc.
1944: The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944: Mr. Skeffington
1952: The Lusty Men
1954: The High and the Mighty - Fourth Academy Award nomination

External links

Ralph Dawson at the Internet Movie Database

Academy Award for Best Film Editing

1934–1950	Conrad A. Nervig (1934) Ralph Dawson (1935) Ralph Dawson (1936) Gene Havlick and Gene Milford (1937) Ralph Dawson (1938) Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (1939) Anne Bauchens (1940) William Holmes (1941) Daniel Mandell (1942) George Amy (1943) Barbara McLean (1944) Robert J. Kern (1945) Daniel Mandell (1946) Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish (1947) Paul Weatherwax (1948) Harry W. Gerstad (1949) Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig (1950)

1951–1975	William Hornbeck (1951) Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad (1952) William Lyon (1953) Gene Milford (1954) Charles Nelson and William Lyon (1955) Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax (1956) Peter Taylor (1957) Adrienne Fazan (1958) Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning (1959) Daniel Mandell (1960) Thomas Stanford (1961) Anne V. Coates (1962) Harold F. Kress (1963) Cotton Warburton (1964) William H. Reynolds (1965) Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder, and Frank Santillo (1966) Hal Ashby (1967) Frank P. Keller (1968) Françoise Bonnot (1969) Hugh S. Fowler (1970) Gerald B. Greenberg (1971) David Bretherton (1972) William H. Reynolds (1973) Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress (1974) Verna Fields (1975)

1976–2000	Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad (1976) Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (1977) Peter Zinner (1978) Alan Heim (1979) Thelma Schoonmaker (1980) Michael Kahn (1981) John Bloom (1982) Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart (1983) Jim Clark (1984) Thom Noble (1985) Claire Simpson (1986) Gabriella Cristiani (1987) Arthur Schmidt (1988) David Brenner and Joe Hutshing (1989) Neil Travis (1990) Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991) Joel Cox (1992) Michael Kahn (1993) Arthur Schmidt (1994) Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley (1995) Walter Murch (1996) Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris (1997) Michael Kahn (1998) Zach Staenberg (1999) Stephen Mirrione (2000)

2001–present	Pietro Scalia (2001) Martin Walsh (2002) Jamie Selkirk (2003) Thelma Schoonmaker (2004) Hughes Winborne (2005) Thelma Schoonmaker (2006) Christopher Rouse (2007) Chris Dickens (2008) Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2010) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2011) William Goldenberg (2012) Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013) Tom Cross (2014) Margaret Sixel (2015)

Best Film Editing became Best Editing in 1999

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 315533328 LCCN: n85342736

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