
John Gilbert
Biography
John Gilbert is a film editor who works primarily in New Zealand. Gilbert has edited 28 feature films as well as television shows and short films. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, among several honours, for Mel Gibson's war drama Hacksaw Ridge (2016). Gilbert had earlier received various accolades for his work on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), including the Satellite Award for Best Editing and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and an ACE Eddie Award. John Gilbert's first position in film was with the government filmmaking body, The National Film Unit, in his native New Zealand. Gilbert was taking a break from history and anthropology studies at the time but never returned to university, moving on to Television New Zealand, where he worked as an assistant editor and editor. Gilbert also spent time freelancing as a sound editor. Gilbert's first credit as an editor on a full-length feature was for the film Crush (1992), which was invited to the Cannes Film Festival. Gilbert received a "Best Editing" award from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards for the comedy-drama film Via Satellite (1998). He received a New Zealand Screen Award for editing The World's Fastest Indian (2005) and reunited with Mel Gibson on the historical drama The Professor and the Madman. Gilbert has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Gilbert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring
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Crew
Bridge to Terabithia
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Bandslam
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The 355
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The Bank Job
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The World's Fastest Indian
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Killer Elite
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Snail's Pace
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Blitz
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The Lost Tribe
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Chicken
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The Murder House
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Willy Nilly
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Punitive Damage
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The Raid
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The November Man
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Jack Be Nimble
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Hacksaw Ridge
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Damsel
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Perfect Strangers
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Chasing Mavericks
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Return to Treasure Island
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Whina
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The Lounge Bar
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Show of Hands
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Adrift
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The Tank
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Crush
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Loaded
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6 Days
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Via Satellite
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Aberration
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The Haunting of Barney Palmer
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Executive Target
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Behave Yourself
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Dirty Creature
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Road Trip: Beer Pong
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A Place To Stand
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