- Elmo Williams
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name = Elmo Williams
imagesize = 180px
caption = Cover of "Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir"
birthname = James Elmo Williams
birthdate = birth date and age|1913|4|30
birthplace =Lone Wolf, Oklahoma
deathdate =
deathplace =
spouse = Lorraine Williams
parents =
occupation =film editor
academyawards = Film Editing 1952 "Hign Noon"
awards = ACE Golden Eddie 1971
ACE Career Achievement 1990Elmo Williams (born
April 30 ,1913 inLone Wolf, Oklahoma ) is anAcademy Award -winning veteran film and television editor, director, producer, and executive. [ [http://www.webcitation.org/5WCNXnK3f "Elmo Williams Biography"] , webpage archived at WebCite from [http://www.elmowilliams.com/bio.html this original URL] on 2008-03-09.]Career
Among the films that Williams edited are "
High Noon " (1952), "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954), and "The Vikings" (1958). Williams was involved in the production of "The Longest Day" (1962) and "Cleopatra" (1963), [ [http://www.webcitation.org/5WCfuzK8n "Films by Elmo Williams"] , webpage archived at WebCite from [http://www.elmowilliams.com/movies.html this original URL] on 2008-03-09.] and he was a producer of the film "Tora! Tora! Tora! " (1970). From 1971-74 Williams was the Head of Production for20th Century Fox .Williams edited the film "
Design for Death " (1947), which won anAcademy Award for Documentary Feature . Williams won theAcademy Award for Film Editing for his work on "High Noon" (directed byFred Zinneman - 1952), and was nominated again for "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (directed byRichard Fleischer - 1954).Williams 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.] In 1971, Williams was honored with the "Golden Eddie" award as Filmmaker of the Year from theAmerican Cinema Editors , which honored him again in 1990 with its Career Achievement Award.In 2006, Williams published "Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir".Williams, Elmo (2006). "Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir" (McFarland). ISBN 0786426217 ] The book includes a detailed discussion of the editing of "High Noon";
James Berardinelli has characterized Williams' editing of this film as "brilliant". [Berardinelli, James (2003). "ReelViews: The Ultimate Guide to the Best 1,000 Modern Movies on DVD and Video" (Justin, Charles, & Co.), p. 567.] Williams indicates that the well-known montage in the film as the clock ticks down to "high noon" was specifically edited to accommodate the music that had been composed for the scene byDimitri Tiomkin ; Williams wanted to edit the montage differently, but Tiomkin objected and prevailed. Williams explains that the film's director,Fred Zinneman , had moved on to other projects after filming was complete, and had little involvement in the editing. This level of autonomy for a film's editor would be surprising for a contemporary film, but (as Williams made clear in a 2005 interview) it wasn't atypical of that era (the 1940s and 1950s) of filmmaking. [White, Rusty and Williams, Elmo (2005). [http://www.webcitation.org/5WCrjesIN "A Conversation with Oscar Winning Film Editor Elmo Williams"] , "Entertainment Insiders" webpage archived at WebCite from [http://www.einsiders.com/features/interviews/elmowilliams.php this original URL] on 2008-03-09.] Lastly, Harry Gerstad, who was credited on the film as its co-editor, had only a nominal involvement in the editing. By the rules of the Academy Awards, Gerstad nonetheless shared in the Academy Award for the editing of "High Noon".References
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NAME= Williams, Elmo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Williams, James Elmo
SHORT DESCRIPTION=film editor
DATE OF BIRTH= 1913-4-30
PLACE OF BIRTH=Lone Wolf, Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH=
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