Michael J. Horton is a film editor who works primarily in New Zealand.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for the 2002 film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers that was directed by Peter Jackson.
Horton was born in Lower Hutt, Wellington, in New Zealand.
He began working as a film editor with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation in the mid-sixties.
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