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Name
  
Melanie Oliver


Role
  
Film Editor

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Awards
  
British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Editing - Fiction

Nominations
  
BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Editing

Similar
  
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Melanie Ann Oliver is a New Zealand film and television editor. She has edited numerous British films and television series, collaborating often with director Tom Hooper. Her work has received many accolades, including a BAFTA Award and two Emmy Award nominations.

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Career

Oliver was raised in New Zealand, where she completed a university degree in advertising and marketing. Her career in film began as an assistant editor under the tutelage of screenwriter/director Jane Campion on Campion's films An Angel at My Table (1990) and The Portrait of a Lady (1996). She relocated to England where she worked as an assistant editor at a documentary production company and began to edit her own short films. In 1997 she was hired by Joe Wright to edit Crocodile Snap, a short film he was directing for the BBC; Oliver credits this experience as her breakthrough. She then transitioned from working in film to television, eventually editing Tom Hooper's miniseries Elizabeth I (2005), for which she received an Emmy Award nomination, and Hooper's telefilm Longford (2006), which earned her a BAFTA Award for Best Editing in TV Fiction/Entertainment. In 2008 she collaborated with Hooper again on the miniseries John Adams; her editing was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award and another Emmy.

Oliver returned to film editing in the mid-to-late 2000s, with Brick Lane (2007), The Damned United (2009), Creation (2009), and Jane Eyre (2011). In 2012 she reunited with Joe Wright to edit his film adaptation of Anna Karenina. The same year, she co-edited Hooper's adaptation of Les Misérables with Chris Dickens, who began editing as it was filmed while Oliver was more involved in editing during post-production to ensure that the film's music was perfectly synchronised with the images. Oliver and Dickens' work on Les Misérables received numerous accolades, including nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing, an Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Comedy or Musical Film, and a Satellite Award for Best Editing. She later edited Pride (2014) and Before I Go to Sleep (2014). In 2015, she rejoined Hooper to direct his biographical film The Danish Girl.

Selected filmography

The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis.

  • A Mulatto Song (Topher Campbell-1996)
  • Crocodile Snap (Joe Wright-1997)
  • Renegade TV Gets Dazed (?-1998)
  • The End (Joe Wright-1998)
  • Blood and Money (Joanna Bailey-2001)
  • Puff Daddy: Keeping It Real (Bruce Goodison-2001)
  • Dirty War (Daniel Percival-2004)
  • Faith (David Thacker-2005)
  • Longford (Tom Hooper-2006)
  • Celebration (John Crowley-2007)
  • Mansfield Park (Iain B. MacDonald-2007)
  • Brick Lane (Sarah Gavron-2007)
  • The Damned United (Tom Hooper-2009)
  • Creation (Jon Amiel-2009)
  • The Special Relationship (Richard Loncraine-2010)
  • Jane Eyre (Cary Joji Fukunaga-2011)
  • Anna Karenina (Joe Wright-2012)
  • Les Misérables (Tom Hooper-2012)
  • Pride (Matthew Warchus-2014)
  • Before I Go to Sleep (Rowan Joffe-2014)
  • The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper-2015)
  • Bridget Jones's Baby (Sharon Maguire-2016)
  • Victoria & Abdul (Stephen Frears-2017)
  • References

    Melanie Oliver Wikipedia


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