He has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, for RoboCop (1987), Die Hard (1988), and Basic Instinct (1992).
His father worked as an airplane bomb sight manufacturer during World War II, and shortly afterwards started at MGM, where he was a music editor for over 30 years.
[2] Urioste began his career in 1957, when he worked with Henry Mancini at MGM as a music editor.
[7] Other films that Urioste edited during the 1980s include Conan the Destroyer (1984), Die Hard (1988) and Road House (1989).
[9] Urioste has also collaborated with director Paul Verhoeven in such films as RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990) and Basic Instinct (1992).
[18] In addition to film editing, Urioste has been the senior vice president of feature development at Warner Bros. since 1998.