- Peter Honess
Peter Honess is a British
film editor with more than thirty film credits dating from 1973.imdb name|0392000] Honess received the 1997BAFTA Award for Best Editing for his work on "L.A. Confidential".Honess was educated at
Queen's College, Taunton from 1956-1963 . [ [http://www.oldqueenians.com/member.cfm?id=1105&CFID=32360625&CFTOKEN=36886008 "Member Search"] , Oldqueenians.com website. Information retrieved2008-07-13 .] He then became an apprentice editor at the United Kingdom branch ofMGM , where his father was working. He moved to the United States in 1971, where he got his first editing credit for "It's Alive! " (1974), a cult horror film about a couple that become parents of a monster baby."Fine Cuts", "The Hollywood Reporter", March 1, 2000.] When Honess returned to the United Kingdom, he was again employed as an assistant editor. In all, Honess spent fifteen years as an assistant. Honess acknowledges the mentoring by British editors Tony Gibbs ("Tom Jones") andThelma Connell ("Alfie "), "Thelma was quite an extraordinary woman. I was absorbed by how she edited. She cut very, very fast. That was also true of Tony. He'd cut the film in his head at dailies." After a ten-year hiatus, Honess was hired to edit the films "Memed, My Hawk " (1984) and "Champion" (1984), and thereafter he has worked regularly as an editor.Honess's recent filmography includes "L.A. Confidential" (1997), "
The Next Best Thing " (2000), "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" (2002), "Troy" (2004), "Aeon Flux" (2005), "Poseidon" (2006), and "The Golden Compass" (2007).Honess was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for documentary editing for "Following the Tundra Wolf" (1974). In addition to its BAFTA Award for Best Editing, "L. A. Confidential" was also nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing, an ACE Eddie Award, and the Satellite Award. Honess has been elected to membership in the
American Cinema Editors . [ [http://www.webcitation.org/5W3vTXmHE "American Cinema Editors > Members"] , webpage archived by WebCite from [http://www.ace-filmeditors.org/newace/dir_Mem.html this original URL] on 2008-03-04.]References
External links
*Honess, Peter and Urioste, Frank (2001). "Peter Honess & Frank Urioste: Two Long-Time Friends Talk About Their Work", "Editors Guild Magazine" [http://www.webcitation.org/5ZI3Y4yDk Part I] (July/August 2001 issue) and [http://www.webcitation.org/5ZI3Z3J5K Part II] (September/October 2001 issue) archived at WebCite from [http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/Newsletter/JulAug01/honess_urioste_one.html this original URL]
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