He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Finding Neverland (2004).
He attended Ygnacio Valley High School in the SF/EastBay city of Concord graduating with the Class of 1984.
After college he was invited to relocate to Los Angeles to assist Peter Kagan, a director of commercials, at Stiefel and Co..
He next worked as an assistant to Angus Wall, an editor at the commercial editorial shop Rock, Paper, Scissors.
[2] He has been nominated, for an Oscar in 2005: Best Achievement in Editing for Finding Neverland (2004), an Eddie in 2005: Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic for Finding Neverland (2004), and a Satellite Award in 2008: Best Film Editing for Quantum of Solace (2008) which he shared with: Richard Pearson)[3] Chessé currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, two children, Clover and Coco, and one dog named Shortbread.