Lee Smith

Lee Smith was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004) and The Dark Knight (2008). He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for The Dark Knight and for Inception (2010). He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound for The Piano (1993). He began his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993) (for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and Holy Smoke! (1999). Smith was also editing films during this interval; he was one of the editors for RoboCop 2 (1990). He began his notable collaboration with director Peter Weir on the 1982 film The Year of Living Dangerously, on which he was an associate editor working with Weir's longtime editor William M. Anderson. He was credited as a co-editor with Anderson for Fearless (1993) and for The Truman Show (1998). He was the sole editor for Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), for which Smith was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and for an "Eddie Award" from the American Cinema Editors. More recently, Smith has edited seven films with director Christopher Nolan. He was nominated for a second Academy Award and American Cinema Editors Award for The Dark Knight (2008). In 2010, he received another nomination for the American Cinema Editors Award for his editing work on Inception; Inception was listed as the 35th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. In 2018, he received an Academy Award for his work on Nolan's Dunkirk.

Known For

Birth Location Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Born 1960-06-10

Movies

Inside 'Interstellar' as Self - Editor
2015
2012

Movies

Argylle Editor
2024
2022
The 355 Editor
2022
1917 Editor
2019
Dark Phoenix Editor
2019
Dunkirk Editor
2017
Spectre Editor
2015
Interstellar Editor
2014
Ender's Game Editor
2013
Elysium Editor
2013
2012
2011
The Way Back Editor
2010
Inception Editor
2010
2008
The Prestige Editor
2006
Batman Begins Editor
2005
2002
2002
Risk Editor
2001
Risk Sound Designer
2001
Holy Smoke Sound Designer
1999
Two Hands Editor
1999
1998
Joey Editor
1997
1996
Little Women Sound Designer
1994
Fearless Editor
1993
The Piano Sound Designer
1993
Blinky Bill Editor
1992
Turtle Beach Editor
1992
RoboCop 2 Editor
1990
Communion Editor
1989
Dead Calm Sound Designer
1989
1987
1986
Crosstalk Assistant Editor
1982
The Chain Reaction Additional Sound Re-Recordist
1980