Joel Cox
Joel Cox | |
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Born |
Los Angeles, California, United States | April 2, 1942
Occupation | Film editor |
Years active | 1969–present |
Joel Cox (Born April 2, 1942) is an American film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood in over 30 films.
Life and career
Cox has been working in film since appearing as a baby in Random Harvest (1942).[1] He started in the mailroom at Warner Bros. in 1961.[2][3]
His first film as an assistant editor was The Wild Bunch (directed by Sam Peckinpah, 1969). Cox has had a notable collaboration with Clint Eastwood that commenced with the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales, for which Cox was Ferris Webster's assistant. Cox and Webster were co-editors on The Gauntlet (1977) and on several more of Eastwood's subsequent films. Starting with Sudden Impact (1983), Cox became Eastwood's principal editor. Cox has been quoted as saying that, over their 30-year partnership, Eastwood has re-cut only a single scene that Cox put together.[1] Gary D. Roach, who worked as Cox's assistant from the mid-1990s, has become Cox's co-editor on Eastwood's films since Letters from Iwo Jima (2006).
Cox won the 1992 Academy Award for Film Editing for Unforgiven.[1] He has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors.[4] On November 25, 2008, Clint Eastwood presented Cox the first Ignacy Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award, which is named in honor of the piano virtuoso who called Paso Robles home, at the first Paso Robles Digital Film Festival.[5][6][7] He received a nomination for the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Changeling[8] and for the 2015 Academy Award for Film Editing for American Sniper.
Filmography
The 2008 Paso Robles Digital Film Festival provides a full filmography of Joel Cox as part of his Lifetime Achievement Award.[9]
Editor
Editorial department
Year | Film | Director | Job | Notes |
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1988 | The Dead Pool | Buddy Van Horn | supervising editor | Clint Eastwood as Insp. 'Dirty' Harry Callahan |
1979 | Escape from Alcatraz | Don Siegel | assistant editor | Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris |
1977 | March or Die | Dick Richards | assistant editor | |
1976 | The Outlaw Josey Wales | Clint Eastwood | assistant editor | Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales |
1975 | Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins | Dick Richards | assistant editor | |
1974 | The Terminal Man | Mike Hodges | assistant editor | |
1973 | The All-American Boy | Charles Eastman | assistant editor | |
1973 | Cleopatra Jones | Jack Starrett | assistant editor | |
1969 | The Rain People | Francis Ford Coppola | assistant editor | |
1969 | The Wild Bunch | Sam Peckinpah | assistant editor |
Sound department
Year | Film | Director | Job | Notes |
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1969 | The Learning Tree | Gordon Parks | sound assistant |
Self
Year | Show | Episode | Notes |
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2006 | HBO First Look | A Moment in Time... Flags of Our Fathers | |
2005 | Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema | Video | |
2002 | All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger | Video | |
2000 | American Masters | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | |
1999 | Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' | Video | |
1993 | The 65th Annual Academy Awards | Winner: Best Film Editing | |
1993 | Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso | ||
1992 | Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' |
Awards
Year | Result | Award | Category | Recipient(s) | Notes |
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2015 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Film Editing | American Sniper | Shared with Gary D. Roach |
2005 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Film Editing | Million Dollar Baby | |
1993 | Won | Oscar | Best Film Editing | Unforgiven | |
2005 | Nominated | Eddie | Edited Feature Film - Dramatic | Million Dollar Baby | |
2004 | Nominated | Eddie | Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic | Mystic River | |
1993 | Won | Eddie | Best Edited Feature Film | Unforgiven | |
2006 | Won | Hollywood Film Award | Editor of the Year | ||
2006 | Nominated | Satellite Award | Best Film Editing | Flags of Our Fathers | |
2004 | Nominated | Golden Satellite Award | Best Film Editing | Mystic River | |
2009 | Nominated | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | BAFTA Award for Best Editing[8] | Changeling | Shared with Gary D. Roach |
References
- 1 2 3 Kallay, William (2005-03-03). "American Cinema Editors: 2004 Oscar Nominees Discuss Their Craft At The Egyptian Theatre". From Script To DVD. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ↑ "Santa Clara University Hosts Academy Award Winning Editor, Joel Cox." (Press release). Santa Clara University. 2005-05-16. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ↑ Ohanian, Thomas (April 1998). Digital Nonlinear Editing: Editing Film and Video on the Desktop, Second Edition. Focal Press. pp. 122–123. ISBN 0-240-80225-X.
- ↑ "Directory Members". American Cinema Editors. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ↑ Fox, Matthew (2008-08-05). "Film festival comes to Paso Robles". Paso Robles Press. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
- ↑ "Paso Robles Digital Film Fest will honor film-editor Joel Cox". FilmFestivals.com. 2008-08-13. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
- ↑ Linn, Sarah (2008-11-22). "Local film editor honored: Clint Eastwood kicks off paso robles film festival". The San Luis Obispo Tribune. Retrieved 2008-11-23.
- 1 2 "The full list of nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2009". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 2009-01-15. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
- ↑ "The Paso Robles Digital Film Festival announces the first Ignace Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to the World of Music and Movies, goes to Academy Award winning editor Joel Cox" (Press release). Paso Robles Digital Film Festival November 20–25. Retrieved 2008-09-22.
- ↑ "Clint Eastwood's "Invictus" Will Open Nationwide on December 11, 2009". Reuters. 2008-06-04. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- ↑ "County Roundup". SanLuisObispo.com. 2008-08-17. Retrieved 2008-08-17.
- ↑ Scott Foundas (2007-12-19). "Clint Eastwood: The Set Whisperer". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ↑ "Press Release: American Masters Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends". Thirteen/WNET New York. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ↑ McCarthy, Todd (2006-12-07). "Letters from Iwo Jima". Variety. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ↑ McCarthy, Todd (2006-10-09). "Flags of Our Fathers". Variety. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ↑ "Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2008-09-22.
- ↑ Honeycutt, Kirk (2004-12-06). "Million Dollar Baby". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ↑ Honeycutt, Kirk (2002-08-05). "Mystic River". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ↑ McCarthy, Todd (2003-10-09). "Review: Blood Work". Variety. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ↑ "Storyline: Space Cowboys". Warner Bros. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ↑ McCarthy, Todd (1999-03-15). "Review: True Crime". Variety. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ↑ McCarthy, Todd (1997-11-21). "Review: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". Variety. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ↑ McCarthy, Todd (1997-02-07). "Review: Absolute Power". Variety. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
- ↑ Turan, Kenneth (1995-09-15). "Movie Review: The Stars Fell on Henrietta". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
- ↑ "Review: The Bridges of Madison County". Variety. 1995-01-01. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ↑ McCarthy, Todd (1993-11-29). "Review: A Perfect World". Variety. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ↑ Canby, Vincent (1992-08-07). "Review/Film: Unforgiven; A Western Without Good Guys". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joel Cox. |
- Joel Cox at the Internet Movie Database
- Joel Cox at Archive.is (archived 2013-01-25) at The Hollywood Reporter