Zach Staenberg

Zach Staenberg
Born	United States
Occupation	film editor
Awards	ACE Eddie 1999 The Matrix

Zach Staenberg is a film editor best known for the Matrix Trilogy. Staenberg won an Academy Award and an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of The Matrix (1999). The Matrix films were written and directed by the Wachowski Brothers, with whom Staenberg has had an extended collaboration dating from 1996.

Staenberg has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.

Filmography

The director and release-year of each film is given in parenthesis.

• Police Academy (Hugh Wilson-1984)
• Gotti (Robert Harmon-1996). Won ACE Eddie Award for "Best Edited Two-Hour Movie for Non-Commercial Television".
• Bound (Wachowski Brothers-1996).
• The Matrix (Wachowski Brothers-1999). Won Oscar for Best Editing.
• Antitrust (Peter Howitt-2001)
• The Matrix Reloaded (Wachowski Brothers-2003).
• The Matrix Revolutions (Wachowski Brothers-2003).
• The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (actor-2004)
• The Matrix: Path of Neo (videogame) (Wachowski Brothers-2005).
• Lord of War (Andrew Niccol-2005).
• Mongol (Sergei Bodrov-2007).
• Speed Racer (Wachowski Brothers-2008)
• City of Ember (Gil Kenan-2009; co-edited with Adam P. Scott)
• Bunraku (Guy Moshe-2010).
• In Time (Niccol-2011)

External links

• van Hook, Andrea (2004). "Zach Staenberg on The Matrix Trilogy", The Editors Guild Magazine Vol. 25, No. 1 (January–February 2005), archived at Webcite from this URL on 2008-05-05.
• Zach Staenberg at the Internet Movie Database