Arthur Schmidt

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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 extensive 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 Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (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).[1]

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[edit] References and external links

  1. ^ Lobrutto, Vincent (1991). Selected Takes: Film Editors On Editing (Praeger, Westport, Connecticut), p. 213. ISBN 978-0275933951
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