Thelma Schoonmaker

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Thelma Schoonmaker at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2010

Thelma Schoonmaker (born January 3, 1940 in Algeria ) is an American film editor . She has worked for director Martin Scorsese for many years and has been responsible for editing all of his films since the 1980s . She has already received three Academy Awards for her work .

Life

The daughter of an American working for an oil company was born in Algeria, but spent her childhood in different countries, including Aruba . Schoonmaker initially wanted to be a diplomat and from 1957 attended courses and lectures at Cornell University , where she attended political science and Russian courses. One of these courses was led by Vladimir Nabokov . In 1961, she graduated from there and took tests for application to the State Department . Since she expressed her outrage over apartheid policies in South Africa and American foreign policy, the tests were unsuccessful. In response, Schoonmaker began taking art classes.

She saw an advertisement in The New York Times for an assistant editor position and successfully applied for it. She shortened films by François Truffaut , Jean-Luc Godard and Federico Fellini , among others , so that they were the right length for American television. She then attended a six-week editing course at New York University (NYU), where she met the young Martin Scorsese. In 1967 she edited his first film Who is knocking on my door? . It was Scorsese who introduced her to director Michael Powell . Schoonmaker married Powell, 35 years his senior, on May 19, 1984. They were married until Powell's death on February 19, 1990.

Schoonmaker has worked almost exclusively for Martin Scorsese since the early 1980s.

Filmography

In Aviator , Schoonmaker has an extra role as one of Howard Hughes' film editors.

Awards (selection)

  • Schoonmaker has been nominated for an Oscar five more times:
    • 1971 for Woodstock
    • 1991 for Good Fellas
    • 2003 for Gangs of New York
    • 2011 for Hugo Cabret
    • 2020 for The Irishman
  • British Academy Film Award
    • 1981: Like a Wild Bull (Raging Bull)
    • 1982: Nomination for King of Comedy
    • 1991: Good Fellas - Three decades in the Mafia (Good Fellas)
    • 1993: Nomination for Cape Fear
    • 2003: Nomination for Gangs of New York
    • 2005: Nomination for Aviator (The Aviator)
    • 2007: Nomination for Departed - Unter Feinden (The Departed)
    • 2012: Nomination for Hugo Cabret (Hugo)
  • Eddie Award
    • 1981: like a wild bull
    • 1991: Nomination for Goodfellas
    • 1996: Nomination for Casino
    • 2003: Gangs of New York
    • 2005: Aviator
    • 2007: Nomination for The Departed

Web links

Commons : Thelma Schoonmaker  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d "Thelma Schoonmaker: A Personal Journey with Scorsese and Powell" by Jonathan Marlow ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Biography. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 2, 2015 .
  3. ^ "Cornell University -" Thelma Schoonmaker '61 to talk movies Nov. 19 at Cornell "by Daniel Aloi
  4. ↑ BAFTA Awards Fellowship . Retrieved February 11, 2019.
  5. ^ Two time BAFTA-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker to be honored with BAFTA Fellowship . Article dated January 24, 2019, accessed February 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schoonmaker, Thelma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Algeria