Lee Smith
Lee Smith was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004) and The Dark Knight (2008). He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for The Dark Knight and for Inception (2010). He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound for The Piano (1993). He began his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993) (for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and Holy Smoke! (1999). Smith was also editing films during this interval; he was one of the editors for RoboCop 2 (1990). He began his notable collaboration with director Peter Weir on the 1982 film The Year of Living Dangerously, on which he was an associate editor working with Weir's longtime editor William M. Anderson. He was credited as a co-editor with Anderson for Fearless (1993) and for The Truman Show (1998). He was the sole editor for Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), for which Smith was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and for an "Eddie Award" from the American Cinema Editors. More recently, Smith has edited seven films with director Christopher Nolan. He was nominated for a second Academy Award and American Cinema Editors Award for The Dark Knight (2008). In 2010, he received another nomination for the American Cinema Editors Award for his editing work on Inception; Inception was listed as the 35th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. In 2018, he received an Academy Award for his work on Nolan's Dunkirk.
Known for
EditingBirthday
June 10, 1960Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
42Place of birth
Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaAlso known as
Ли СмитCast credits
Crew credits
The Dark Knight
EditorBatman Begins
EditorThe Prestige
EditorFearless
EditorRoboCop 2
EditorMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World
EditorBuffalo Soldiers
EditorInception
EditorTwo Hands
EditorThe Rage in Placid Lake
EditorThe Dark Knight Rises
EditorEnder's Game
EditorInterstellar
EditorDead End Drive-In
EditorX-Men: First Class
EditorThe Way Back
EditorSpectre
EditorThe Truman Show
EditorElysium
EditorLittle Women
Sound DesignerDunkirk
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