List of film director and editor collaborations

And I don't mean the editor should be given a mere half-a-leg up, nudged one inch higher in the Pantheon of creative people who do things.

"[2] Crediting the editing of a film is made more difficult by the fact that the relative contributions of the director and the editor vary enormously.

At one extreme lies the old Hollywood studio system; as described by Lizzie Francke, this was the "period when the editor was often left to his or her own devices in the cutting room.

Editors such as Margaret Booth (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios) and Barbara McLean (20th Century Fox) worked nearly autonomously.

Seven Samurai (1954), Kagemusha (1980)); Hiroshi Nezu, Kurosawa's production chief, was quoted as saying, "Among ourselves we think that he is Toho’s best director, that he is Japan’s best scenarist, and that he is the best editor in the world.

Thelma Schoonmaker and Columba Powell at the Cannes Film Festival (2009). Schoonmaker is among the deans of film editing; Columba Powell is the son of Michael Powell , a prominent film director to whom Schoonmaker was married until his death in 1990.
John Ottman has had a long collaboration with director Bryan Singer , and is also noted for his musical scoring of many films and television programs.
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1990 photograph of Robert Wise, the editor of Citizen Kane (1941) and the director of West Side Story (1961)
Ruggiero Mastroianni, the editor of Amarcord (1973)
Joe Bini and Werner Herzog in 2008, following the release of the documentary film Encounters at the End of the World
Stephen Mirrione has received Oscar nominations for his editing of films directed by George Clooney , Alejandro González Iñárritu , and Steven Soderbergh .