John Gilbert is a film editor who works primarily in New Zealand.
He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing[1] and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing,[2] among several honors, for Mel Gibson's war drama Hacksaw Ridge (2016).
Gilbert was taking a break from history and anthropology studies at the time, but never returned to university, moving on to Television New Zealand, where he worked as an assistant editor and editor.
He received a New Zealand Screen Award for editing The World's Fastest Indian (2005) and reunited with Mel Gibson on the historical drama The Professor and the Madman.
[4] Gilbert has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.