Lee Smith (editor)

Lee Smith ( born 1960 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian cutter. He is best known for his work with Peter Weir and Christopher Nolan.

Career

After he initially worked as assistant editor, he moved in his career permanently between sound and image cutting back and forth. This he did on the one hand, for pragmatic reasons, to be employed in the long term and on the other hand, because he had to work anyway with the sound when image cut his own words. ( " I never really saw a big difference in between the two and as a picture editor I work heavily with sound. " ) However, he estimates it to work at work as long as possible without music, because it is precisely this, so his theory, on blanket much and could not an exact analysis of the images. ("My theory is did the longer you can resist putting music on a movie, the more you analyze and the more brutal you are on the images. Music is the great glue can stick sequences did together. " ) He likes long shots that as little as possible using CGI. This especially with Stanley Kubrick, but even with Nolan and Weir, with whom he collaborated for many years. ( " Kubrick had a great vision and [ made ​​] great use of wide shots. Both Chris [ Nolan ] and Peter [ Weir ] are into that. " )

With the Australian director Peter Weir him a long-standing cooperation, which includes, among other films like Master and Commander, The Truman Show and Fearless. Even as a 22 -year-old was allowed to work in 1982 in A Year of Living as an assistant editor for William M. Anderson. But not only working with Anderson was for him a preparation for his future career, but also cooperation with Weir, on the Smith retrospect said that he " was a young man and this has inspired him as often as possible with him work, because it was a fantastic experience. " ( " I was a young guy and it spurred me to work with him as many times as i could. it was a fantastic experience. " ) by the year 2003, he worked again with Anderson and Weir together and took it to both the sound and picture section at the respective projects. With Master and Commander was the first time independently for a Weirs project the responsibility. This was characterized by an Oscar nomination for him. This was until the year 2010 ( The Way Back - The long way ) the last common film. About Weir Smith says that " he had many ideas and was keen to create moods with sounds. " So it was exciting to work with him. ( " He Has a lot of ideas and is very interested in creating moods through sounds Which makes him a very exciting director to work with. " ) Also estimates the performance Weir Smith and called him before as a sound groove.

Even with the British director Christopher Nolan connects him since 2005 a multi-year collaboration. So he recorded exclusively for Nolan's films Batman Begins, Prestige to 2010 - responsible The Master of Magic, The Dark Knight and Inception for the cut. This work earned him worldwide recognition. During this time he was nominated for the world's most diverse film prizes and received, among which were an Oscar nomination and two nominations for the British Academy Film Award. When Christopher Nolan was not nominated unexpectedly in early 2011 for the director's Oscar, the media response to the non- nomination for the Academy Award for cutting - Smith's work on Inception was no less great. Christopher Nolan only commented that it would have surprised him most was that there was no cut - nomination for Lee Smith. He thought that was a clear distinction. ( " The thing I was most surprised about what no movie editing nomination for Lee Smith. I thought he was a sure thing to win. " ) Once, there was also disappointed Hans Zimmer, said the producer Emma Thomas, wife of Christopher Nolan, that this announcement would have triggered the greatest astonishment. ( "It really does REMAIN Perhaps the biggest head- scratcher of last week 's announcement. " )

On the question of when he would because work on the third Batman film, he replied by saying that he was booked on or after 1 May 2011. ("I'm booked to start on May 1st did. " )

Life

Smith is married. He and his wife Kimberly two children together.

Criticism

" The excellent cut of Lee Smith makes a significant contribution that the viewer long groping in the dark and the tension never breaks off. "

Filmography (selection)

Awards

• 2004: Best Editing - Master and Commander ( nominated )
• 2009: Best Film Editing - The Dark Knight ( nominated )

• 2008: Best Film Editing - The Dark Knight ( nominated )
• 2010: Best Editing - Inception

• 2004: Best Edited Feature Film ( Dramatic ) - Master and Commander ( nominated )
• 2009: Best Edited Feature Film ( Dramatic ) - The Dark Knight ( nominated )