Jay Friedkin

Jay Friedkin is a film editor . He became known through the films made in the 1990s and 2000s A pig called Babe , Pig Babe in the Big City and Pathfinder - The Warrior's Trail .

life and career

Jay Friedkin has been a full-time editor in the film business since the mid-1990s. However, he gained his first experience in the industry as early as 1980 as an apprentice under the guidance of editor Jeff Kanew for Robert Redford's cinema production A Completely Normal Family .

In 1996, together with Marcus D'Arcy , he received an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Editing for the cut of the Australian family film A Piglet Named Babe (director: Chris Noonan ) . For the sequel by director George Miller with the title Piggy Babe in the Big City , Friedkin was hired again, this time together with colleague Margaret Sixel , as editor. The German director Marcus Nispel engaged him in 2004 for a television adaptation of Frankenstein . In 2007 Friedkin worked again with Nippel, this time on the adventure film Pathfinder - The Trail of the Warrior with Karl Urban and Clancy Brown in the lead roles.

Awards

• 1996: Oscar nomination for Best Editing at the 1996 awards ceremony for A Pig Called Babe with Marcus D'Arcy
• 1996: British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Editing for A Pig Called Babe with Marcus D'Arcy

Filmography

movie theater

• 1995: A pig named Babe (Babe)
• 1998: Babe: Pig in the City (Babe: Pig in the City)
• 2007: Pathfinder - The Warrior's Trail (Pathfinder)

watch TV

• 1997: Dirty Tricks in Reno (Tricks)
• 2004: Frankenstein

literature

• Jay Friedkin. In: Cinematographers, production designers, costume designers and film editors guide. , Lone Eagle Publishing Company, 1995, p. 640

Web links

• Jay Friedkin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Filmography by Jay Friedkin in: The New York Times
• Films by Jay Friedkin with German distribution titles

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jay Friedkin. In: The Hollywood Reporter. , Wilkerson Daily Corporation, 1995, p. 28