Arthur Schmidt

Arthur Schmidt (born 1959) is an American film editor who has won the Academy Award for Film Editing twice (for "Forrest Gump" (1994) and for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988)). Schmidt has had an extended, notable collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis that included both of the films for which he won Oscars.

Schmidt has also won several "Eddies" from the American Cinema Editors for "" (with Craig Wood and Stephen E. Rivkin, 2003), "Forrest Gump", and for a television special "The Jericho Mile" (1979). In addition to these awards, he has been nominated for major editing awards (including the BAFTA Award for Best Editing) for "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980), "Back to the Future" (with Harry Keramidas, 1985), "Last of the Mohicans" (with Dov Hoenig, 1992), and "Cast Away" (2000).

Schmidt is the son of the distinguished film editor Arthur P. Schmidt; it is said that the son's education in editing began when he watched his father editing the film Sunset Boulevard (1950). [Lobrutto, Vincent (1991). "Selected Takes: Film Editors On Editing" (Praeger, Westport, Connecticut), p. 213. ISBN 978-0275933951]

Filmography

* 1978: "Jaws 2" (directed by Jeannot Szwarc)
* 1980: "Coal Miner's Daughter" (directed by Michael Apted)
* 1985: "Fandango" (directed by Kevin Reynolds)
* 1985: "Back to the Future" (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
* 1988: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
* 1989: "Back to the Future Part II" (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
* 1990: "Back to the Future Part III" (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
* 1992: "Death Becomes Her" (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
* 1992: "Last of the Mohicans" (directed by Michael Mann)
* 1994: "Forrest Gump" (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
* 1996: "Chain Reaction" (directed by Andrew Davis)
* 1997: "Contact" (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
* 2000: "What Lies Beneath" (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
* 2000: "Cast Away" (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
* 2003: "" (directed by Gore Verbinski)
* 2005: "The Chumscrubber" (directed by Arie Posin)

References and external links

*Buckner, Bonnie (2001). [http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/Newsletter/MayJun01/fire_schmidt.html "Conversation with Arthur Schmidt,"] "The Motion Picture Editors Guild Magazine" Vol. 22, No. 2 (May/June 2001). Online version retrieved Dec. 15, 2007.
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