Nationality British Name Jon Harris | Role Film Editor Movies The Descent Part 2 | |
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Born 11 July 1967 (age 56) ( 1967-07-11 ) Sheffield, Yorkshire, England Occupation Film editor, film director Awards British Independent Film Award for Best Technical Achievement Nominations Academy Award for Best Film Editing Similar People Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Gavin O'Herlihy, Krysten Cummings, Christian Colson | ||
Jon Harris (born 11 July 1967) is a film editor known for his work on Snatch (2000), Layer Cake (2004), The Descent (2005), Stardust (2007), Kick-Ass (2010), 127 Hours (2010), The Woman In Black (2012), and Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015).
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- Career
- Editor
- Director
- Additional editor
- Assistant editor
- Assistant director
- Supervising editor
- Writer
- Executive producer
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He also directed the horror film The Descent Part 2 (2009). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for 127 Hours.
Career
Harris received a British Independent Film Award (BIFA) for Best Technical Achievement 2005 for his work on Neil Marshall's The Descent (2005). Harris then made his directorial debut with the sequel The Descent: Part 2 (2009).
In 2011 Harris was nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for his editing work on Danny Boyle's 127 Hours (2010) and subsequently became a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). He has a further 12 nominations including a Saturn Award Best Editing nomination for his editing work on Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) alongside Eddie Hamilton.
Harris is currently working with Danny Boyle on the Trainspotting sequel T2 (2017).