Arthur Schmidt

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Arthur Schmidt (born 1937) 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 extended, notable 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]

[edit] Filmography

• 1978: Jaws 2 (directed by Jeannot Szwarc)
• 1980: Coal Miner's Daughter (directed by Michael Apted)
• 1985: Fandango (directed by Kevin Reynolds)
• 1985: Back to the Future (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
• 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
• 1989: Back to the Future Part II (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
• 1990: Back to the Future Part III (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
• 1992: Death Becomes Her (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
• 1992: Last of the Mohicans (directed by Michael Mann)
• 1994: Forrest Gump (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
• 1996: Chain Reaction (directed by Andrew Davis)
• 1997: Contact (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
• 1998: Primary Colors (directed by Mike Nichols)
• 2000: What Lies Beneath (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
• 2000: Cast Away (directed by Robert Zemeckis)
• 2003: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (directed by Gore Verbinski)
• 2005: The Chumscrubber (directed by Arie Posin)

[edit] References and external links

• Buckner, Bonnie (2001). "Conversation with Arthur Schmidt," The Motion Picture Editors Guild Magazine Vol. 22, No. 2 (May/June 2001). Online version retrieved Dec. 15, 2007.
• Arthur Schmidt at the Internet Movie Database

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v • d • e Academy Award for Best Film Editing 1990-1999 Neil Travis (1990) · Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991) · Joel Cox (1992) · Michael Kahn (1993) · Arthur Schmidt (1994) · Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley (1995) · Walter Murch (1996) · Conrad Buff, James Cameron and Richard A. Harris (1997) · Michael Kahn (1998) · Zach Staenberg (1999)

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