William M. Anderson (born 12 March 1948) is an Irish film editor who was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film Dead Poets Society (1989). He has had an extended, notable association with the director Peter Weir, beginning with the film Gallipoli (1981), including Dead Poets Society, and continuing through The Truman Show (1998). Lee Smith co-edited The Truman Show, and was sole editor on Weir's next film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). Anderson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Based on the Internet Movie Database; the director and any co-editors for each film are indicated in parenthesis.
Money Movers (Bruce Beresford - 1978)
Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford - 1980)
Gallipoli (Peter Weir - 1981)
Puberty Blues (Bruce Beresford - 1981)
The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir - 1982)
Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford - 1983)
Razorback (Russell Mulcahy - 1984)
Stanley: Every Home Should Have One (Esben Storm - 1984)
King David (Bruce Beresford - 1985)
Big Shots (Robert Mandel - 1987)
Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (Dick Bartlett - 1988)
1969 (Ernest Thompson - 1988)
Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir - 1989)
Old Gringo (Luis Puenzo - 1989; with Glenn Farr and Juan Carlos Macías)
Green Card (Peter Weir - 1990)
A Shock to the System (Jan Egleson - 1990; with Peter C. Frank)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (Hector Babenco - 1991; with Armen Minasian)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (Ridley Scott - 1992; with Armen Minasian)
Fearless (Peter Weir - 1993; with Armen Minasian and Lee Smith)
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (Paul Weiland - 1994; with Armen Minasian)
Just Cause (Arne Glimcher - 1995; with Armen Minasian)
Down Periscope (David S. Ward - 1996; with Armen Minasian)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir - 1998; with Lee Smith)
Igby Goes Down (Burr Steers - 2000; with Robert Frazen and Padraic McKinley)
Ordinary Decent Criminal (Thaddeus O'Sullivan - 2000)
If Only (Gil Junger - 2004; with Padraic McKinley)
.45 (Gary Lennon - 2005; with Richard Nord)
Say It in Russian (Jeff Celentano - 2007; with David Rawlins)
Assassination of a High School President (Brett Simon - 2008; with Thomas J. Nordberg)
While She Was Out (Susan Montford - 2008)
