Mark Warner (film editor)

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Mark Roy Warner (born February 24, 1954 ) is an American film editor .

Life

Mark Warner grew up in Los Angeles . Although his father was a sound engineer and Warner had various assistant positions in film during his high school years, he was more interested in psychology and engineering. It was only when he was taking a film course at the university by chance that he discovered his passion for film editing. After a few internships, he was allowed to assist Don Zimmerman with the editing of the two films Coming Home - You are returning home and Welcome Mr. Chance , both staged by director Hal Ashby . A few years later he was responsible for editing a film for the first time in 1982 with Just 48 Hours and Rocky 3 - The Tiger's Eye .

Warner has had a longstanding collaboration with the Australian director Bruce Beresford in particular . So he not only edited Pancho Villa - Mexican Outlaw , but also Doppelmord , The Contract and Mao's last dancer . For the first collaboration between Miss Daisy and her chauffeur , Warner received an Oscar nomination for Best Editing in 1990 .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar
BAFTA Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mark Warner on filmreference.com (English), accessed July 25, 2011
  2. MARK WARNER ON EDITING MAO'S LAST DANCER  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on onscreenasia.com from 1 May 2010 (English), accessed 25 July 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.onscreenasia.com