Alan Heim

Alan Heim, ACE (born May 31, 1936) is an Academy Award-winning American film editor who was born in the Bronx, New York. With a long and distinguished career in the film business, Heim has more than thirty feature-film credits to his name, and has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Heim has also served as President of the ACE organization and as President of the Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG), the IATSE union that represents film editors, sound mixers and post-production craftspeople. Heim had an extended collaboration with director Bob Fosse, and he edited All That Jazz (1979). For that film, Heim received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. All That Jazz is the fourth best-edited film of all time on a 2012 list compiled by the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

Contents

• Alan heim ace discusses all that jazz
• Artist in residence alan heim ace on shaping dustin hoffman s performance in lenny
• Selected filmography
• Awards and nominations
• References

Selected filmography

Doc (Perry-1971)

Lenny (Fosse-1974)

Network (Lumet-1976)

All That Jazz (Fosse-1979)

Hair (Forman-1979)

Star 80 (Fosse-1983)

Goodbye, New York (Kollek-1985)

Valmont (Forman-1989)

Billy Bathgate (Benton-1991)

Dennis The Menace (Castle-1993)

American History X (Kaye-1998)

The Notebook (Cassavates-2004)

Alpha Dog (Cassavetes-2006)

My Sister's Keeper (Cassavetes-2009)

Grey Gardens (Sucsy-2009)

The Other Woman (Cassavetes-2014)

Awards and nominations

2012 - CameraImage Special Award - Lifetime Achievement award "Editor with Unique Visual Sensitivity"

2010 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner - "Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television" - Grey Gardens (2009) (Shared with editor Lee Percy)

2009 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie" -
Grey Gardens (2009) (shared with editor Lee Percy)

2000 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner - "Best Edited Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television" - Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

2000 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special" Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1981 - BAFTA Award winner - "Best Editing" - All That Jazz

1980 - Academy Award winner - "Best Film Editing" - All That Jazz

1980 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner "Best Edited Feature Film" - All That Jazz

1979 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award nominee - "Best Edited Episode from a Television Mini-Series" - Holocaust TV series (shared with editors Stephen A. Rotter, and Brian Smedley-Aston)

1978 - BAFTA Award nomination - "Best Film Editing" - Network

1978 - Primetime Emmy Winner - "Outstanding Film Editing in a Drama Series Holocaust TV series (shared with editors Stephen A. Rotter, Robert M. Reitano, Craig McKay, and Brian Smedley-Aston)

1977 - Academy Award nomination "Best Film Editing" - Network

1977 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award nominee "Best Edited Feature Film" - Network

1973 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Entertainment Programming for a Special or Feature Length Program of a Series" Liza with a Z (1972)