Chris Dickens

{{short description|British film and television editor|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| alma_mater = Arts University Bournemouth

| occupation = Film editor

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Chris Dickens (born February 1967) is a British film and television editor. For his work on Slumdog Millionaire (2008), directed by Danny Boyle, he won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic.

Education

Chris went to Hailsham Community College in his teenage years and graduated from Arts University Bournemouth in 1990.{{cite web|last1=Peters|first1=Oliver|title=Interview with Hot Fuzz editor, Chris Dickens|url=https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/interview-with-hot-fuzz-editor-chris-dickens/|website=digital films|accessdate=10 July 2017}}

Career

He worked in television for a number of years, including a stint with the director Edgar Wright on the television series Spaced. Dickens subsequently edited Wright's first feature film, Shaun of the Dead (2004).{{cite web|last=Peters |first=Oliver |title='Hot Fuzz': Police Raids & Color Grades |date=22 May 2007 |work=Videography |url=http://www.videography.com/article/60774 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717202043/http://www.videography.com/article/60774 |archivedate=17 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }} He worked again with Wright on Hot Fuzz (2007).

Dickens' editing of Slumdog Millionaire has been discussed by several critics.{{cite news |work=Variety |title=Time-jumping movies challenge editors |last=Caranicas |first=Peter |date=10 December 2008 |url=https://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=contenders&id=oscars_vfx_sound_editing&articleid=VR1117997177 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130105121135/http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=contenders&id=oscars_vfx_sound_editing&articleid=VR1117997177 |archivedate=5 January 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}{{cite web|title=Chris Dickens Weaves the Tale of A Slumdog Millionaire |work=Moviemaker |last=Potosky |first=Mallory |url=http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/chris_dickens_slumdog_millionaire_academy_awards_20090128/ |date=29 January 2009 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20110607234719/http://www.moviemaker.com/editing/article/chris_dickens_slumdog_millionaire_academy_awards_20090128/ |archivedate=7 June 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }} Peter Caranicas wrote, "'Slumdog' has a complex structure that interweaves three story strands into a single braid, yielding a rich, almost fugal narrative." In May 2017, after over three months of shooting, Dickens was replaced as the editor of the film Solo: A Star Wars Story, which was released in May 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-han-solo-movie-firing-new-details-behind-phil-lord-chris-miller-exit-1016619|title='Star Wars' Firing Reveals a Disturbance in the Franchise|last=Masters|first=Kim|publisher=The Hollywood Reporter|date=June 26, 2017|accessdate=June 26, 2017}}

Selected filmography

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Year ! Title ! Director ! Notes
rowspan="3" \|2002 \|Sirens \|Nick Laughland \|
Cruise of the Gods \|Declan Lowney \|
Lenny Blue \|Andy Wilson \|
2003 \|Hello Friend \|Graham Linehan \|
rowspan=2\|2004 \|Seed of Chucky \|Don Mancini \|
Shaun of the Dead \|Edgar Wright \|
2005 \|Goal! \|Danny Cannon \|
2006 \|Gone \|Ringan Ledwidge \|
2007 \|Hot Fuzz \|Edgar Wright \|
rowspan="2" \|2008 \|A Complete History of My Sexual Failures \|Chris Waitt \|
Slumdog Millionaire \|Danny Boyle \|Academy Award for Best Film Editing BAFTA Award for Best Editing American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
2009 \|Free Agents \|Richard Laxton \|
2010 \|Submarine \|Richard Ayoade \|
2011 \|Paul \|Greg Mottola \|
rowspan="2" \|2012 \|Berberian Sound Studio \|Peter Strickland \|
Les Misérables \|Tom Hooper \|Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
rowspan="2" \|2013 \|Wizard's Way \|Metal Man \|
The Double \|Richard Ayoade \|Co-editor
2014 \|Suite Française \|Saul Dibb \|
2015 \| Macbeth \| Justin Kurzel \|
rowspan="2" \|2016 \| Genius \| Michael Grandage \|
Dying Laughing \|Lloyd Stanton and Paul Toogood \|Co-editor
2017 \|The Man with the Iron Heart \|Cédric Jimenez \|
rowspan="2" \|2018 \|A Dark Place \|Simon Fellows \|Co-editor
Mary Queen of Scots \|Josie Rourke \|
2019 \|Rocketman \|Dexter Fletcher \|
2020 \|Small Axe \|Steve McQueen \|Anthology film series; co-editor
2022 \| My Policeman \|Michael Grandage \|
2023 \|We Dare to Dream \|Waad Al-Kateab \|Documentary
rowspan="2" \|2024 \|Timestalker \|Alice Lowe \|
The Crow \| Rupert Sanders \|

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Year

! Title

! Director

! Notes

rowspan="3" |2002

|Sirens

|Nick Laughland

Cruise of the Gods

|Declan Lowney

Lenny Blue

|Andy Wilson