Tariq Anwar (film editor)

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Tariq Anwar (born September 21, 1945 in New Delhi , British India ) is a British film editor . Since the early 1970s he has been responsible for editing over 50 television and film productions. He received two Oscar nominations for his work on the feature films American Beauty (1999) and The King's Speech (2010) .

biography

Training and beginnings as a film editor

Tariq Anwar was born in New Delhi (according to other sources in Lucknow ) and has Persian ancestors. His father was the Indian actor Rafiq Anwar . Tariq Anwar lived in Mumbai for several years before moving to Great Britain with his family at the age of six. There he grew up in London and attended university. Although Anwar had never set out to break into the film business, his father introduced him to the British film industry. He began working as a driver for a documentary production company and was soon the third assistant director in the mid-1960s. But he preferred the work in the editing room, which he had got to know as a trainee ( "It seemed to be much more civilized." ). Although he had secured a place at the London School of Film Technique , he was not granted a loan because he had previously been unsuccessfully financed to study mathematics and physics. When Anwar couldn't find a job in film, he switched to television.

In the early 1980s, Anwar joined the BBC , where he began working seriously as an editor. He spent 18 years there and worked on projects in a wide variety of genres - from TV dramas, news programs and children's programs to documentaries in the fields of music, art, history and geography. He was first successful with his work on the multi-part Oppenheimer (1980), in which Sam Waterston took over the title role of the physicist of the same name and "father of the atomic bomb". The BBC production brought Anwar together with the BBC2 Playhouse episode Caught on a Train (1980) the BAFTA TV Award . He was to be nominated three more times for the British television award before he turned to British cinema from the early 1990s with David Wheatley's The March (1990). In 1994 Anwar worked together with theater director Nicholas Hytner on his feature film debut King George - A Kingdom for More Mind . The award-winning theatrical adaptation earned him his first nomination for the British Film Academy Award . Anwar then worked on Hytner's subsequent cinema productions, Hexenjagd (1996), Love in Every Relationship (1998) and Center Stage (2000).

Oscar nominations for "American Beauty" and "The King's Speech"

Anwar has also worked for well-known British film directors such as Sam Mendes , Iain Softley and Richard Eyre . For Mendes' award-winning film debut American Beauty , he and Christopher Greenbury first received the British Film Academy Award for Best Editor in 1999, as well as his first Oscar nomination for Best Editing . Greenbury had given up on American Beauty after an offer from Peter and Bobby Farrelly . Anwar then took his place and, like his predecessor, based himself on Thomas Newman's film music . With the approval of Mendes, he revised the final film sequences, among other things. The end of the film originally had a running time of almost ten minutes and, according to the script by Alan Balls , included blue screen recordings in which lead actor Kevin Spacey flew through the sky. These scenes, which Anwar reminded of the comedy film Mary Poppins , were not included in the final theatrical version.

Anwar was able to build on the success of American Beauty in 2010 with Tom Hooper's historical drama The King's Speech . He shortened the story of the stuttering British Prince Albert (played by Colin Firth ) together with Hooper to a two-hour theatrical version. According to Anwar, the biggest challenge was to shorten the film "without losing any story" . His work earned Anwar his second Oscar nomination and the European Film Award .

Anwar likes to work with directors with a stage background because, in his experience, they have a better narrative sense and a greater ability to criticize. They would also get better performances from their actors. Although Anwar states that he does not prefer any particular film genre, he has an aversion to action sequences , which he finds "boring" . In contrast to fast cuts, which in his opinion can hide a lot of mistakes, slow dialogue sequences in film drama are often more difficult to terminate ( “And something like the bag flying around in 'American Beauty' - that gives me a lot more pleasure, even if I don't really Did something to the scene. It's such a thrill. " ). In the editing process, he likes to be inspired by pieces of music by Indian artists, including percussion pieces and works by Zakir Hussain or Ravi Shankar .

Tariq Anwar lives in Eton (Berkshire) and has an editing studio in Soho (London) . His daughter Gabrielle Anwar (* 1970), who also works as an actress, comes from the relationship with the British actress Shirley Hills .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1981: BAFTA TV Award for Oppenheimer and BBC2 Playhouse - Caught on a Train
  • 1987: BAFTA TV Award nomination for The Monocled Mutineer
  • 1987: BAFTA TV Award nomination for Fortunes of War
  • 1987: BAFTA TV Award nomination for Summer's Lease
  • 1995: BAFTA nomination for American Beauty
  • 2000: Satellite Award nomination for American Beauty (together with Christopher Greenbury )
  • 2000: Eddie Award nomination for American Beauty (together with Christopher Greenbury)
  • 2000: Oscar nomination for American Beauty (with Christopher Greenbury)
  • 2000: BAFTA Award for American Beauty (together with Christopher Greenbury)
  • 2011: Eddie Award nomination for The King's Speech
  • 2011: Oscar nomination for The King's Speech
  • 2011: European Film Award for Best Editing of The King's Speech

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Profile in the Internet Movie Database (accessed February 27, 2011)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f cf. Banerjee, Debesh: Mr. Scissorhands . In: Indian Express, February 26, 2011 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  3. ↑ a b c d e f cf. Lee, Marc: At the cutting edge with De Niro . In: The Daily Telegraph , February 17, 2006, p. 32
  4. ↑ a b c d e cf. Tucker, Ian: Tariq Anwar: 'Very few directors have vision. They just flounder until the editing room ' . In: The Observer , February 27, 2011, p. 17
  5. ↑ a b cf. Tariq Anwar on Collaboration in the Cutting Room at studiodaily.com, February 1, 2006 (accessed February 27, 2011)
  6. ↑ cf. Profile ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2010 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 kingsspeech.com (English; accessed February 27, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kingsspeech.com
  7. ↑ cf. Presentation ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 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. by Christopher Greenbury and Tariq Anwar at editorsguild.com (accessed February 27, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.editorsguild.com
  8. ↑ cf. Biography at Yahoo.com; archived on March 6, 2010. ( Memento of March 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Anwar, Tariq
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH New Delhi , British India