Conrad Buff IV

Conrad Buff
Born	Conrad Buff IV July 8, 1948[1] Los Angeles County, California
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1969 – present

Conrad Buff (born 1948) is an American film editor with more than 25 film credits since 1985. Buff is known for winning an Academy Award for Best Film Editing and an ACE Eddie Award for Titanic (1997); the awards were shared with his co-editors James Cameron and Richard A. Harris. He won the 2000 Satellite Award for Best Editing for Thirteen Days.

Life and career

Buff's full name is Conrad Buff IV; he is the son of the architect Conrad Buff III, and the grandson of the painter Conrad Buff II.^[2] Buff attended Pasadena City College for two years before joining the U. S. Navy. Buff learned film editing while working for the Navy's Motion Picture Office in Hollywood.^[3] In the first phase of his civilian career Buff was the "visual effects editor" on several successful films, ranging from The Empire Strikes Back (1980) through Ghostbusters (1984). Buff was an assistant editor on Return of the Jedi (1983); he worked with editor Sean Barton and director Richard Marquand. His first editing credit was as the co-editor with Barton for Jagged Edge (1985), which was also directed by Marquand.

Buff is noted particularly for his editing of four films directed by James Cameron, including Titanic. Buff edited The Abyss (1989) with Joel Goodman. Buff was nominated for an Oscar and an Eddie for the editing of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991 - with Mark Goldblatt and Richard A. Harris). He was again nominated for an Eddie for True Lies (1994) (also with Goldblatt and Harris). In addition to its actual awards, Titanic was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing.

Buff has edited four films with director Roger Donaldson: The Getaway (1994), Species (1995), Dante's Peak (1997; co-edited with Tina Hirsch and Howard Smith), and Thirteen Days (2000), which won the Satellite Award for Best Editing.

Since Thirteen Days, Buff has edited four films directed by Antoine Fuqua: Training Day (2001), Tears of the Sun (2003), King Arthur (2004; with Jamie Pearson), and Shooter (2007; with Eric Sears).

Buff has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.^[4]

Filmography

Filmography based on the Internet Movie Database;^[5] the director of each film is indicated in parenthesis.

1985: Jagged Edge (Marquand) 1986: Solarbabies (A. Johnson) 1987: Spaceballs (Brooks) 1988: Short Circuit 2 (K. Johnson) 1989: The Abyss (James Cameron) 1990: Side Out (Israelson) 1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron) 1992: Jennifer Eight 1994: The Getaway (Donaldson) 1994: True Lies (James Cameron) 1995: Species (Donaldson) 1997: Dante's Peak (Donaldson) 1997: Switchback (Donaldson) 1997: Titanic (James Cameron) 1999: Arlington Road (Pellington) 1999: Mystery Men (Usher)

2000: Thirteen Days (Donaldson) 2001: Training Day (Fuqua) 2002: Antwone Fisher (Washington) 2003: Tears of the Sun (Fuqua) 2004: King Arthur (Fuqua) 2005: Harsh Times (Ayer) 2005: Get rich or die tryin' (Sheridan) 2006: Seraphim Falls (von Ancken) 2007: Shooter (Fuqua) 2008: The Happening (Shyamalan) 2009: Terminator Salvation (McG) 2010: The Last Airbender (Shyamalan) 2011: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Wyatt)

References

1. ^ Birthdate and birthplace are taken from the California Birth Index.
2. ^ Iovenko, Chris (2007). "Buff’s house, still shining", Los Angeles Times, December 13, 2007. Online version retrieved 2008-06-29.
3. ^ Spark, Nick (September/October 1998). "From Navy Documentaries to Titanic". Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter 19 (5). Archived from the original on 2009-05-31. http://www.webcitation.org/5hBWz1YRT. 
4. ^ "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.
5. ^ Conrad Buff at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Buff, Conrad
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Date of birth	July 8, 1948
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California
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