Conrad Buff IV

Buff was born in Los Angeles, the son of architect Conrad Buff III,Iovenko, Chris (2007). [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-13-hm-buff13-story.html "Buff’s house, still shining"], Los Angeles Times, December 13, 2007. Online version retrieved 2008-06-29. and the grandson of children's book creators Mary and Conrad Buff (painter Conrad Buff II). He attended Eagle Rock High School in Los Angeles and Pasadena City College for two years before joining the U. S. Navy. Buff learned film editing while working for the Navy's Motion Picture Office in Hollywood.{{cite journal |last=Spark |first=Nick |url=http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/Newsletter/SepOct98/buff.html |title=From Navy Documentaries to Titanic |journal=Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter |volume=19 |issue=5 |date=September–October 1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107115740/http://www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/Newsletter/SepOct98/buff.html |archive-date=2009-01-07 |url-status=dead }} In the first phase of his civilian career Buff was the "visual effects editor" on several successful films, ranging from The Empire Strikes Back (1980) through Ghostbusters (1984). Buff was an assistant editor on Return of the Jedi (1983); he worked with editor Sean Barton and director Richard Marquand. His first editing credit was as the co-editor with Barton for Jagged Edge (1985), which was also directed by Marquand.

Buff is noted particularly for his editing of four films directed by James Cameron, including Titanic. Buff edited The Abyss (1989) with Joel Goodman. Buff was nominated for an Oscar and an Eddie for the editing of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991 - with Mark Goldblatt and Richard A. Harris). He was again nominated for an Eddie for True Lies (1994) (also with Goldblatt and Harris). In addition to its actual awards, Titanic was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing.

Buff has edited four films with director Roger Donaldson: The Getaway (1994), Species (1995), Dante's Peak (1997; co-edited with Tina Hirsch and Howard Smith), and Thirteen Days (2000), which won the Satellite Award for Best Editing.

Since Thirteen Days, Buff has edited eight films directed by Antoine Fuqua: Training Day (2001), Tears of the Sun (2003), King Arthur (2004; with Jamie Pearson), Shooter (2007; with Eric Sears), The Equalizer 2 (2018), Infinite (2021), Emancipation (2022), and The Equalizer 3 (2023).

Buff has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521181843/http://www.ace-filmeditors.org/newace/dir_Mem.html |date=2008-05-21 }}, webpage archived by WebCite from [http://www.ace-filmeditors.org/newace/dir_Mem.html this original URL] on 2008-03-04.

==Filmography==

Filmography based on the Internet Movie Database.{{IMDb name|0119322|Conrad Buff}}

{{reflist |25em

}}

• {{cite journal |title=Conrad Buff: The Editor as Manipulator |first=Arman |last=Tahmizyan |date=July–August 2010 |journal=Editors Guild Magazine |volume=31 |issue=4 |quote=Editing is not a subtractive process; it’s an additive process. We’re basically cutting in the good parts. We’re saying that we like this, this and this––now how do we marry those elements and make it moving, scary, dramatic, emotional, affecting? |url=https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleID=879 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407075315/https://www.editorsguild.com/magazine.cfm?ArticleID=879 |archive-date=2014-04-07}} Mainly an interview with Buff, this article also provides a short biography and a filmography.

• {{IMDb name|nm0119322}}
• {{LCAuth|no2003072216|Conrad Buff|2|}}

{{Navboxes

|title = Awards for Conrad Buff IV

|list =

{{Academy Award Best Film Editing}}

{{American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film}}

{{Satellite Award Best Editing}}

}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Buff, Conrad 4}}

Category:1948 births

Category:American Cinema Editors

Category:American film editors

Category:Best Film Editing Academy Award winners

Category:Living people

Category:Film people from Los Angeles