Tariq Anwar (film editor)
Tariq Anwar ( born September 21, 1945 in New Delhi, British India ) is a British cutter. He has worked on over 50 television and film productions since the early 1970s. For his work on the feature films American Beauty (1999) and The King's Speech (2010) he was twice nominated for an Oscar.
Biography
Training and start as an editor
Tariq Anwar was ( other reportedly in Lucknow ) was born in New Delhi, and has Persian ancestors. His father was the Indian actor Rafiq Anwar. Tariq Anwar lived for several years in Mumbai, before he moved at age six with his family to the UK. There he grew up in London and attended the University. Although Anwar had never pursued a plan to break into the film business, he was brought up by his father to the British film industry. He began as a driver for a production company to work for documentaries and was the mid-1960s soon third assistant director. But He preferred rather to work in the cutting room, which he had learned as an apprentice ( " It seemed to be much more civilized. "). Although he had a place at the London School of Film Technique sure it not a loan was granted, as a math and physics studies was him previously unsuccessfully been financed. When Anwar was no longer working in the film, he moved to television.
In the early 1980s, Anwar joined the BBC, where he began to work seriously as a film editor. There he spent 18 years and was involved in projects of various genres - from television dramas about news and children's programs to documentaries from the worlds of music, art, history and geography. Success was with his work on the miniseries Oppenheimer (1980 ) granted him the first time, in which Sam Waterston in the title role of the eponymous physicist and " father of the atomic bomb " took over. The BBC production brought Anwar 1981 together with the BBC2 Playhouse sequence Caught on a Train (1980 ) BAFTA TV Award. He should be nominated for the British television award three more times before turning off the British cinema in the early 1990s with David Wheatley The March (1990). 1994 Anwar worked with the theater director Nicholas Hytner at the feature film debut of King George - A Madness of. The award-winning theater film earned him his first nomination for the British Film Academy Award. Then Anwar also worked at Hytner's next film productions Crucible (1996 ), Object of My Affection (1998) and Center Stage ( 2000).
Oscar nominations for " American Beauty" and "The King 's Speech"
Furthermore, Anwar worked for such well-known British film directors such as Sam Mendes, Iain Softley and Richard Eyre. For Mendes ' award- winning film debut American Beauty, he received in 1999, together with Christopher Greenbury the first time the British Film Academy Award awarded as the best cutter as well as his first Oscar nomination for Best Editing. Greenbury had given up commenced work on American Beauty for a quote by Peter and Bobby Farrelly. Anwar then took his place and was oriented as its predecessor at the Film Music Thomas Newman. Under the consent of Mendes he revised inter alia, the final film sequences. The end of the film originally had a running time of nearly ten minutes and included - according to the writer Alan Ball - Blue Screen - shots in which main actor Kevin Spacey flew through the sky. These scenes, which reminded Anwar to the comedy film Mary Poppins, were not included in the final theatrical version.
Following the success of American Beauty Anwar 2010 followed with Tom Hooper's historical drama The King's Speech. He shortened the story about the stuttering British Prince Albert (played by Colin Firth ), together with Hooper on a two-hour theatrical version. The biggest challenge was loud Anwar to cut the film, " without losing any history." His work brought Anwar his second Oscar nomination and the European Film Award a.
Anwar is happy to work with directors together with stage background, as they have in his experience, a better narrative sense and greater criticism. These better performances would get from their performers. Although Anwar claims to prefer any particular movie, he harbors an aversion to action sequences, which he perceives as "boring". In contrast to fast cuts that can hide a lot of mistakes in his opinion, were slow dialogue sequences often difficult to schedule the film drama ( " And something like the flying bag in 'American Beauty' - that gives me far more pleasure, although I do not really anything did with the scene. It is such a thrill. "). When cutting process he likes to be inspired by songs Indian artists, including percussion pieces and works by Zakir Hussain and Ravi Shankar.
Tariq Anwar lives in Eton (Berkshire ) and maintains an editing studio in Soho ( London). From the relationship with a British actress Gabrielle Anwar was born his daughter (born in 1970 ), which is also active as an actress.