Lee Smith (editor)

Lee Smith is an ACE-certified film editor. He first started out his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993) (for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound), The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and Holy Smoke (1999). Smith was also editing films during this interval; he was one of the editors for Robocop 2 (1990). He began his work with the director Peter Weir as the sound editor for Green Card (1990). His work with Weir continued as editor and sound designer for Fearless (1993) and for The Truman Show (1998). He edited Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), for which Smith was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and for the "Eddie Award" of the American Cinema Editors. Smith has edited three films with director Christopher Nolan; his editing of The Dark Knight (2008) was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Editing.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Film editor

The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis.

• RoboCop 2 (Kershner-1990; with Armen Minasian, Julie Offer, and Deborah Zeitman)
• Fearless (Weir-1993)
• The Truman Show (Weir-1998; with William M. Anderson)
• Two Hands (Jordan-1999)
• Risk (White-2000)
• Buffalo Soldiers (Jordan-2001)
• Black and White (Lahiff-2002)
• The Rage in Placid Lake (McNamara-2003)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir-2003)
• Batman Begins (Nolan-2005)
• The Prestige (Nolan-2006)
• The Dark Knight (Nolan-2008)

[edit] Sound designer or editor

• Green Card (1990)
• Fearless (1993)
• The Piano (1993)
• The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
• The Truman Show (1998)

[edit] External links

• Lee Smith at the Internet Movie Database
• Hollyn, Norman (November/December 2003.). "Lee Smith on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World". The Editors Guild Magazine 24 (6). http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/Newsletter/NovDec03/novdec03_master_commander.html. 
• Kunkes, Michael (2008). "Behind the Cape & Cowl: Shedding Light on the Post for ‘The Dark Knight,’ Part 1". Editors Guild Magazine.
• Kunkes, Michael (2008). "Behind the Cape & Cowl: Shedding Light on the Post for ‘The Dark Knight,’ Part 2". Editors Guild Magazine.

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