Melanie Oliver
Melanie Ann Oliver is a New Zealand film editor .
life and work
Oliver completed a degree specializing in advertising / marketing.
She then began her career in the film industry and in 1990 got her first job as an assistant editor for Jane Campion's film An Angel on My Blackboard , where she synchronized the raw footage with the sound. To do this, she worked directly with Campion on a daily basis to inspect the samples. Oliver later described this experience as "life changing".
A few years later she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she found employment at a film studio and worked as an assistant editor on numerous documentaries and commercials. At the same time she worked on various of her own films. When Joe Wright was looking for an editor for his short film Crocodile Snap , she convinced him. a. with their own work.
2005 began with the cutting of the TV movie Elizabeth I their highly successful collaboration with director Tom Hooper . This work earned her a nomination for the Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie category at the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards . Oliver also did the editing for Hooper's next film The Moor Murderer of Manchester . For this she won a BAFTA TV Award in the category Best Editing Fiction / Entertainment in 2007 . Since then, Oliver has been responsible for editing all of Hooper's directorial work. In 2012 she worked on Hooper's musical adaptation Les Misérables together with Chris Dickens , who did the rough cut during the film work and Oliver supervised the synchronization of the music with the images in post-production.
She has also worked with directors such as Cary Fukunaga , Joe Wright , Matthew Warchus and Rowan Joffé .
Filmography (selection)
- 1997: Crocodile Snap (short film)
- 1998: Renegade TV Gets Dazed (TV movie)
- 2001: Blood and Money (documentary)
- 2001: Puff Daddy: Keeping It Real (documentary)
- 2004: Dirty War ( Dirty War , Movie made for TV)
- 2005: Faith (TV movie)
- 2005: Elizabeth I (two-part television film)
- 2006: The Moor Murderess of Manchester ( Longford , TV movie)
- 2007: Celebration (TV movie)
- 2007: Mansfield Park (TV movie)
- 2007: Brick Lane
- 2008: John Adams - Freedom for America ( John Adams , TV series, seven episodes)
- 2009: The Damned United - The Eternal Opponent (The Damned United)
- 2009: Creation
- 2010: The Special Relationship (TV movie)
- 2011: Jane Eyre
- 2012: Anna Karenina
- 2012: Les Misérables
- 2014: Pride
- 2014: i. May. Not. Sleep. (Before I Go to Sleep)
- 2015: The Danish Girl
- 2016: Bridget Jones' Baby (Bridget Jones's Baby)
- 2017: Victoria & Abdul
- 2019: Judy
- 2019: Cats
Web links
- Melanie Oliver in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Melanie Oliver at unitedagents.co.uk
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Giving Up The Day Job: Melanie Oliver at bafta.org, accessed on September 14, 2015
- ↑ Melanie Oliver at emmys.org, accessed on September 14, 2015
- ↑ 2007 Nominees & Winners List at bafta.org, accessed on September 14, 2015
- ↑ Contenders - Editors Chris Dickens and Melanie Oliver, Les Misérables ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at btlnews.com, accessed September 14, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oliver, Melanie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oliver, Melanie Ann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand film editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |