Known For
Editing
Place of Birth
New Zealand
Credits
44 titles
John Gilbert
Biography
John Gilbert is a film editor who works primarily in New Zealand. Gilbert has edited 28 feature films as well as television shows and short films. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, among several honours, for Mel Gibson's war drama Hacksaw Ridge (2016). Gilbert had earlier received various accolades for his work on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), including the Satellite Award for Best Editing and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and an ACE Eddie Award. John Gilbert's first position in film was with the government filmmaking body, The National Film Unit, in his native New Zealand. Gilbert was taking a break from history and anthropology studies at the time but never returned to university, moving on to Television New Zealand, where he worked as an assistant editor and editor. Gilbert also spent time freelancing as a sound editor. Gilbert's first credit as an editor on a full-length feature was for the film Crush (1992), which was invited to the Cannes Film Festival. Gilbert received a "Best Editing" award from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards for the comedy-drama film Via Satellite (1998). He received a New Zealand Screen Award for editing The World's Fastest Indian (2005) and reunited with Mel Gibson on the historical drama The Professor and the Madman. Gilbert has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Gilbert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Damsel
Editor
The Tank
Additional Editing
The Raid
Editor
Whina
Editor
The 355
Editor
Adrift
Editor
6 Days
Editor
Hacksaw Ridge
Editor
The November Man
Editor
Chasing Mavericks
Editor
Killer Elite
Editor
Blitz
Editor
Road Trip: Beer Pong
Editor
Bandslam
Editor
Show of Hands
Editor
The Bank Job
Editor
Bridge to Terabithia
Editor
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
The World's Fastest Indian
Editor
Perfect Strangers
Editor
The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script
Self
The Fellowship of the Ring: Assembling an Epic
Self
A Place To Stand
Executive Producer
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Editor
Punitive Damage
Editor
Willy Nilly
Editor
Via Satellite
Editor
The Murder House
Editor
Aberration
Editor
Executive Target
Editor
Return to Treasure Island
Editor
Chicken
Editor
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
Editor
Dirty Creature
Editor
Loaded
Editor
Jack Be Nimble
Editor
Crush
Editor
The Lounge Bar
Editor
Snail's Pace
Editor
Worzel Gummidge Down Under
Editor
The Haunting of Barney Palmer
Editor
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mr. Springer
The Lost Tribe
Assistant Editor
Behave Yourself
Assistant Editor