Lesley Walker

Lesley Walker ( * in the 20th century) is a British film editor.

Life

Although Lesley Walker somehow always wanted to work with art, it was more coincidence, which led to work as an assistant in a small film laboratory. She was an errand boy, worked at the front desk, and from time to time with the negatives. From there, she became a secretary and an assistant editor for a cutting edge company where half the film cut from commercials and children's films. During this time she worked with Tom Priestley and John Bloom. In particular, for Bloom, she assisted in the following years in films such as Final in Berlin, The Lion in Winter and The Last Valley.

After this, individual commercials cut parallel autonomously, Walker was allowed to conduct the first time with A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man independently a movie cut from 1977. From the beginning, she cut Dramas, making them for decades collaborates closely with both Terry Gilliam and with Richard Attenborough as Hauptcutterin. For Gilliam cut it with The Fisher King all his film projects as director, with the exception of 12 Monkeys and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, for each Mick Audsley stepped in as an editor since 1991. After John Bloom no longer worked with Attenborough, Walker stepped in for their old masters and took over in 1987 with Cry Freedom for the first time a project for Attenborough, what movies like In Love and War, Grey Owl and Closing the Ring followed.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

• 2007: Best Editing - Tideland ( nominated )

• 2008: Best Picture section - Mamma Mia ( nominated )