Tom McArdle

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Tom McArdle is an American film editor who has been responsible for editing films in his more than 20-year career in such cinema productions as Handgun - Hetzjagd durch New York , Station Agent , Ein Sommer in New York - The Visitor , Middle of Nowhere and Spotlight .

life and career

Tom McArdle began his career as an editor in the early 1990s with a work for director Nick Gomez. McArdle mainly works for independent productions. In the 1990s he oversaw smaller films such as Handgun - Hunting through New York , Paranoia - Alone with the Killer or Hi-Life in Manhattan . Since 2003 he has also been responsible for all films by director Tom McCarthy as editor. Including for the award-winning cinema productions Station Agent with Peter Dinklage , A Summer in New York - The Visitor with Richard Jenkins or Win Win with Paul Giamatti in the leading role. For Tom McCarthy's most recent production, the drama Spotlight, starring Mark Ruffalo , Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams , McArdle received his first Oscar nomination for Best Editing at the 2016 awards ceremony .

Occasionally Tom McArdle is also active as an editor for documentaries and short films as well as for television, for example for the documentaries A Hole in the Head , Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy or Heckler and the TV film Nadine in Date Land .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

  • 1992: Laws of Gravity
  • 1994: Handgun - Chase through New York (Hand Gun)
  • 1995: The Keeper
  • 1996: Twisted
  • 1997: Star Maps
  • 1997: Talk to Me
  • 1997: Better Than Ever
  • 1998: Paranoia - Alone with the killer (Paranoia)
  • 1998: Hi-Life in Manhattan (Hi-Life)
  • 1999: Loving Jezebel
  • 2000: Poor White Trash
  • 2000: Whipped (Whipped)
  • 2002: Lone Hero - The terrorist bikers (Lone Hero)
  • 2003: Station Agent (The Station Agent)
  • 2003: The Killing Zone
  • 2003: Boys on the Run
  • 2004: Killer Diller
  • 2005: Duane Hopwood
  • 2006: The Architect
  • 2007: A Summer in New York - The Visitor (The Visitor)
  • 2008: Middle of Nowhere
  • 2008: tenure
  • 2011: Win Win
  • 2012: Hello I Must Be Going
  • 2013: In a World ... - The Power of Voice (In a World ...)
  • 2014: Living and Dying in God's Pocket (God's Pocket)
  • 2014: Cobbler - Der Schuhmagier (The Cobbler)
  • 2015: Spotlight
  • 2017: Marshall
  • 2018: What They Had
  • 2020: Timmy Flop: Failure all along the line (Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made)

watch TV

  • 2005: Nadine in Date Land (TV movie)

Documentaries and short films

  • 1992: The Occult History of the Third Reich (video documentary)
  • 1995: Sandman (short film)
  • 1998: A Hole in the Head (documentary)
  • 1998: Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy (documentary)
  • 1999: QM, I Think I Call Her QM (short film)
  • 2007: Heckler (documentary)

literature

  • Tom McArdle. In: John Berra: American Independent, Volume 1. , Intellect Books, 2010, p. 256

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Tom McArdle in Gold Derby
  2. Tom McArdle. In: Mick Hurbis-Cherrier: Voice and Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Film and DV Production. , CRC Press, 2012, p. 464