Ray Lovejoy (18 February 1939 – 18 October 2001) was a British film editor with about thirty editing credits.
Lovejoy was an assistant to editor Anne V. Coates for films from The Horse's Mouth (1958) to Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
[3] He was next an assistant to editor Anthony Harvey on Dr. Strangelove (1964), which was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
His cutting in Aliens sustained that sequel's narrative momentum with a speed and tension that its predecessor did not have, and his editing on Batman finessed that film's gaping narrative problems by simply rushing past them.
[1] In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild published a list of the 75 best-edited films of all time based on a survey of its members.