- Mike Hill (film editor)
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Mike Hill Born Michael J. Hill
1952
Omaha, NebraskaOccupation film editor Mike Hill, A.C.E. (born 1952 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a film editor who won an Academy Award for the film Apollo 13 (1995). Hill and his editing partner Dan Hanley have had a longstanding, notable collaboration with the director Ron Howard, having edited all of Howard's films since Night Shift (1982).[1]
Hill was raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and received a criminal justice degree at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1972. His first job was as a guard at Chino prison in California. He then entered the film editing profession, and worked on several television programs and on two feature films before starting his association with Hanley and Howard on Night Shift (1982).[2] After many years in California, Hill moved back to Nebraska in the late 1980s. In addition to his continuing work on major studio films with Howard, Hill edits independent films produced in Nebraska such as Full Ride (2001).[3]
In addition to Apollo 13, Hanley and Hill have been nominated for Academy Awards for Howard's A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cinderella Man (2005), and Frost/Nixon (2008). Hanley and Hill's longstanding partnership, which includes 18 films through the 2009 Angels and Demons, may be unique among major film editors. An important aspect of the partnership is that the two editors have developed a sufficiently uniform style that they can simply split up the scenes of each film without specialization.[1]
Hill has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors.[4]
Selected filmography
Films directed by Ron Howard
- Far and Away (1992)
- The Paper (1994)
- Apollo 13 (1995)
- Ransom (1996)
- EDtv (1999)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
- A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- The Missing (2003)
- The Cinderella Man (2005)
- The Da Vinci Code (2006)
- Frost/Nixon (2008)
- Angels & Demons (2009)
References
- ^ a b Lewis, Kevin (2005). "Hanley and Hill: Howard's Editing Tag-Team", Editors' Guild Magazine Vol. 27, No. 3. Webpage archived at WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04,
- ^ Flott, Anthony (1997). "Four Graduates Receive UNO Alumni Citations", University of Nebraska at Omaha press release May 11, 1997. Online version retrieved April 10, 2008.
- ^ Hoeger, Mark (2001). "Mike Hill Tackles Full Ride", press release from Oberon Entertainment, Inc., September 26, 2001. Online version retrieved April 10, 2008.
- ^ "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.
External links
- Mike Hill at the Internet Movie Database
Academy Award for Film Editing (1981–2000) 1981–1998 1981: Michael Kahn • 1982: John Bloom • 1983: Glenn Farr / Lisa Fruchtman / Stephen A. Rotter / Douglas Stewart / Tom Rolf • 1984: Jim Clark • 1985: Thom Noble • 1986: Claire Simpson • 1987: Gabriella Cristiani • 1988: Arthur Schmidt • 1989: David Brenner / Joe Hutshing • 1990: Neil Travis • 1991: Joe Hutshing / Pietro Scalia • 1992: Joel Cox • 1993: Michael Kahn • 1994: Arthur Schmidt • 1995: Mike Hill / Daniel P. Hanley • 1996: Walter Murch • 1997: Conrad Buff IV / James Cameron / Richard A. Harris • 1998: Michael Kahn
1999–2000
(Best Film Editing
became Best Editing)1999: Zach Staenberg • 2000: Stephen Mirrione
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