William H. Reynolds

William H. Reynolds (June 14, 1910 - July 16, 1997) was an American film editor of seventy films. He won the Academy Award for Film Editing for "The Sound of Music" (1965) and for "The Sting" (1973), and was nominated for this award five additional times. He received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 1991.

Reynolds and director Robert Wise had a notable collaboration that extended over twenty years and six films, including "The Sound of Music". Film critic John Gallagher has written that, "The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)" and "The Sand Pebbles" are the best of the Wise-Reynolds collaborations, both impeccably paced and edited in an engrossing manner with an emphasis on drama and suspense."Gallagher, John A. (2000). [http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Po-Ro/Reynolds-William-H.html "William H. Reynolds"] , in Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (editors), "International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, Edition 4" (St. James Press), ISBN 978-1558624498. Online version retrieved 2008-06-14.]

Reynolds' second Oscar was for "The Sting" (1973), which was his first collaboration with the director George Roy Hill; this collaboration extended over four films through "The Little Drummer Girl" (1984). Gallagher notes that, for "The Sting", "Reynolds emulated the editing stylistics of the 1930s, in keeping with the period flavor of the Paul Newman-Robert Redford con story."

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