Jon Harris (film editor)

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Jon Harris (born July 11, 1967 in Sheffield , England ) is a British film editor and film director . He was nominated for an Oscar in 2011 for his film editing of 127 Hours .

life and career

Harris, who was born in Sheffield , South Yorkshire , in the summer of 1967, made his first notable work in film and television in 1995, when he was the third assistant director alongside director Gary Sinyor and was assistant editor at The Turnaround that same year . After he was hired as a second assistant editor in the films Immer wieder Saturday and Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent in 1996 , he got his first engagement as an executive film editor in 1998. He took over the editing of the Oscar-nominated British short film Holiday Romance , which is also known under the name A Lust for Life .

After Harris was hired as editor for an episode of Comedy Lab in 1999 , two films followed in the following year in which he worked as a film editor: The Irish short film The Second Death (starring among others with Liam Cunningham , Michelle Fairley , Aidan Gillen ) and the award-winning film Snatch - Pigs and Diamonds , for which he received the 2001 Phoenix Film Critics Society Award in the category “Best Film Editing”. Around two years later he was also the editor of the production team for the multiple nominees and in some cases star-studded thriller / drama Ripley's Game . After editing the short film Occasional, Strong in the same year and the following year in the film Dot the I , 2004 was a very successful year in which he was hired as editor for four well-known productions.

In addition to editing The Calcium Kid and the documentary mini- series Long Way Round , he also did the assembly work on the award-winning productions Layer Cake and The Banker , the latter short film even winning a BAFTA Award . Harris finally celebrated further great successes from 2005, where he worked, among other things, on the multi-award-winning film The Descent , but also edited the Indian-English film Being Cyrus . In the same year he received the British Independent Film Award in the category "Best Editing" for his work on The Descent . The next two years were relatively quiet for the English- born Harris. So he took over the editing of Starter for 10 , but was also engaged as editor of the blockbuster Der Sternwanderer . After he had already gained a lot of experience in this genre with The Descent , Harris was also engaged in 2008 as an editing specialist for a horror thriller. He took over the editing work for Eden Lake and in the same year worked as editor for another production, the award-winning short film The Pond .

Harris finally made his directorial debut in 2009 with The Descent 2 - The Hunt Goes On , the sequel to the 2005 film, for which he not only directed but was also responsible for editing. 2010 saw the editing of two blockbusters. He did the editing first for the film Kick-Ass and later for the umpteen times nominated and among other things even nominated for six Oscars film 127 Hours . For the first time in his career he was nominated for an Oscar (in the category " Best Editing ") for his work , after he had previously worked on two Oscar-nominated works. Even before he was even nominated for the Oscar, he received nominations for the film for the San Diego Film Critics Society Award (2010), Online Film Critics Society Award (2011) and the BAFTA Award (2011), each in the category " Best cut ”. Another film that Harris was hired to edit was The Woman in Black in 2012 .

Filmography

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Assistant editor

Director

Awards and nominations

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personal data
SURNAME Harris, Jon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film editor and director
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield , England, UK