Leslie Jones (film editor)
Leslie Jones is an American film editor .
Life
Jones is a daughter of Robert C. Jones , who was also active as a film editor. Her grandfather Harmon Jones had already worked as such. Leslie Jones herself gained her first experience as an assistant editor from the late 1980s. Her first major film production as an independent editor was Mord im White House from 1997. The following year, Der schmale Grat followed , for which she and her colleagues Saar Klein and Billy Weber were nominated for an Oscar in the Best Editing category. The three also received a nomination for the Eddie Award from the American Cinema Editors .
About a dozen other productions followed, in which Jones was responsible for the film editing . The 2002 film Punch-Drunk Love was her first collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson . This was repeated in 2012 with The Master . With her colleague Peter McNulty she received a nomination in the category Best Editing at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2012 , as well as at the Online Film Critics Society Awards in 2013. With Inherent Vice - Natural Defects , there was another cooperation with Paul in 2014 Thomas Anderson.
Filmography (selection)
- 1997: Murder in the White House (Murder at 1600)
- 1998: The Thin Red Line (The Thin Red Line)
- 2000: Woman on Top
- 2002: Punch-Drunk Love
- 2004: Starsky & Hutch
- 2006: The Date Profi (School for Scoundrels)
- 2009: Midnight Circus - Welcome to the World of Vampires (Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant)
- 2010: My wife, our kids and I (Little Fockers)
- 2012: The Master
- 2012: The Thief of Words
- 2014: Inherent Vice - Natural Defects (Inherent Vice)
- 2016: Century Women (20th Century Women)
- 2016: Rules do not matter (Rules Do not Apply)
Web links
- Leslie Jones in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jones, Leslie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |