Thelma Schoonmaker

Thelma Schoonmaker (born 3 January 1940 in Algeria) is an American film editor. She is a long -time collaborator of director Martin Scorsese and responsible since the 1980s in all his films for the cut. For her work she has already won three Oscars.

Life

The daughter of working for an oil company, American artist, was born in Algeria, but spent her childhood in various countries, including Aruba.

Schoonmaker initially wanted to be a diplomat and attended from 1957 courses and lectures at Cornell University, where she attended political science and Russian language courses. One of these courses led by Vladimir Nabokov. In 1961 she made ​​there, graduated and took tests for the application to the State Department. As they expressed their outrage over the policy of apartheid in South Africa and U.S. foreign policy, the tests were not successful. In response, courses began Schoonmaker to visit about art.

She saw an ad in The New York Times, where an assistant position was assigned as an editor and successfully applied for the position. They cut down, among other films by François Truffaut, Jean -Luc Godard and Federico Fellini ), so that they had the correct length for American television. She then visited a six -week course in Cutting at New York University ( NYU), where she met the young Martin Scorsese. She cut in 1967 his first film Who 's That Knocking at My Door? . Scorsese it was he who introduced her to director Michael Powell. Schoonmaker married 35 years earlier Powell on May 19, 1984. They were married until Powell's death on February 19, 1990.

Schoonmaker since the early 1980s, works almost exclusively for Martin Scorsese.

Filmography

In Aviator Schoonmaker has a minor role as one of Howard Hughes ' ​​Cutterinen.

Awards (selection)

  • 3 Oscars: at the Academy Awards in 1981 for Raging Bull
  • At the Academy Awards in 2005 for The Aviator
  • At the Academy Awards in 2007 for The Departed - The Departed

Schoonmaker four more times, was nominated for an Academy Award:

  • British Academy Film Award 1981: Raging Bull ( Raging Bull)
  • 1982: Nominated for The King of Comedy
  • 1991: Goodfellas - Three decades in the Mafia ( Goodfellas )
  • 1993: nominated for Cape Fear ( Cape Fear )
  • 2003: nomination for Gangs of New York
  • 2005: Nomination for The Aviator ( The Aviator )
  • 2007: Nominated for The Departed - The Departed ( The Departed )
  • 2012: Nominated for Hugo Cabret ( Hugo)
  • Eddie Award 1981: Raging Bull
  • 1991: nomination for Goodfellas
  • 1996: Nomination for Casino
  • 2003: Gangs of New York
  • 2005: The Aviator
  • 2007: Nominated for The Departed
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