David Stiven

David Stiven (* 1940 in England ) is an Australian film editor who was responsible for the film editing of various international cinema productions , including films such as Mad Max II - The Executor , Crocodile Dundee - A Crocodile To Kiss , Crocodile Dundee II , Darkman or Almost One Angel .

life and career

Born in Great Britain in 1940 , David Stiven began his career in Australia in the mid-1960s, initially editing short films. From the mid-1970s, he then mainly worked for cinema productions. For the 1975 film Promised Woman , directed by Tom Cowan, he received an AACTA Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Editing a year later . At the end of the 1970s he worked as an editor for directors such as Phillip Noyce , Christopher Fraser and Michael Pate .

At the beginning of the 1980s he was responsible for increasingly commercially successful films such as George Miller's Mad Max II - The Executor with Mel Gibson or Crocodile Dundee - A Crocodile to Kiss by director Peter Faiman , which also attracted a lot of international attention. He then worked as editor for director and producer John Cornell on his sequel Crocodile Dundee II of the Paul Hogan blockbuster. In 1990 he was again responsible for editing Cornell's comedy Almost an Angel . In the same year he cut the action thriller Darkman for Sam Raimi with Liam Neeson in the lead role. In the 1990s he also worked for films such as Paul WS Anderson's crime film Shopping , for Nancy Meckler's drama Sister My Sister and for the adventure film Theory of the Trojans by Johan Earl and Melanie Forchetti. In 2006 he was still working as an editor for the horror film Safety in Numbers .

Awards

• 1976: AACTA Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Editing for Promised Woman
• 1982: AACTA Award in the Best Achievement in Editing category for Mad Max II - The Executor with Tim Wellburn, Michael Balson, Christopher Plowright, George Miller

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

• 1975: Promised Woman
• 1976: God Knows Why, But It Works
• 1977: Summer City
• 1979: Tim - Can that be love? (Tim)
• 1981: Mad Max II - The Enforcer (Mad Max 2)
• 1982: The Green Devils of the Mekong (Attack Force Z)
• 1982: Task Force Sea Wolves (The Highest Honor)
• 1986: Crocodile Dundee - A crocodile to kiss (Crocodile Dundee)
• 1988: Crocodile Dundee II (Crocodile 'Dundee II)
• 1990: Darkman
• 1990: Almost an Angel (Almost an Angel)
• 1994: shopping
• 1994: Sister My Sister
• 1997: Under the Lighthouse Dancing
• 1999: Theory of the Trojans
• 2003: The Pact - a Pact for the death (The Pact)
• 2003: Dangerous Surf 2 - Liquid Bridge (Liquid Bridge)
• 2006: Safety in Numbers

watch TV

• 1984: Bodyline (TV miniseries)
• 1987: The Facts of Life Down Under (TV movie)
• 1999: Journeys to Hell (documentary television series, 1 episode)
• 2001: The Finder (TV movie)

Short or documentary films

• 1966: 4 Eyes Fastest Gun (short film)
• 1966: The Film (short film)
• 1968: The Stringybark Massacre (short film)
• 1973: One Hundred a Day (short film)
• 1973: Castor and Pollux (short documentary film)
• 1980: War Without Weapons (short film)
• 1997: Chastity Truth and Kinopanorama (short documentary film)
• 2006: Can I Call You (short film)

literature

• David Stiven. In: Kate Bales: Cinematographers, Production Designers, Costume Designers & Film Editors Guide. Seventh Edition. Lone Eagle, Beverly Hills 1999, ISSN  0894-8674 , p. 557 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Shelley: Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010. McFarland, Jefferson 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-6167-7 , p. 196 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).