Joel Cox
{{short description|American film editor|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Joel Cox (born April 2, 1942) is an American film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood in 33 films.
Life and career
Cox has been working in film since appearing as a baby in Random Harvest (1942). He started in the mailroom at Warner Bros. in 1961. Rudi Fehr, a well-known editor and executive at Warner Bros., made Cox an apprentice editor about 3 years later. As was common in the era, Cox worked as an uncredited assistant for several years. His first credit as an assistant editor was for The Rain People, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and edited by Barry Malkin.{{cite book |title=Digital Filmmaking: The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures |page=122 |first1=Thomas |last1=Ohanian |first2=Natalie |last2=Phillips |edition=Revised |publisher=CRC Press |date=2013 |isbn=9781136053542 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=usMqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA122}}{{cite book| last = Ohanian| first = Thomas| title = Digital Nonlinear Editing: Editing Film and Video on the Desktop, Second Edition| publisher = Focal Press| date = April 1998| pages = [https://archive.org/details/digitalnonlinear00ohan_1/page/122 122–123]| isbn = 0-240-80225-X| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/digitalnonlinear00ohan_1/page/122}} Not available online.{{cite press release| title = Santa Clara University Hosts Academy Award Winning Editor, Joel Cox.| publisher = Santa Clara University| date = 2005-05-16| url = http://www.allbusiness.com/media-telecommunications/movies-sound-recording/5131123-1.html| access-date = 2008-02-25 }}{{dead link|date=January 2017}} His first credit as the editor was for Farewell, My Lovely (1975), which was directed by Dick Richards and co-edited by the veteran editor Walter A. Thompson. Cox had just finished working as Thompson's assistant on Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975), which was also directed by Richards. Cox worked on two more of Richards' films, March or Die (1977 - as assistant editor) and Death Valley (1982).
Cox has had a notable collaboration with Clint Eastwood that commenced with the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales, for which Cox was Ferris Webster's assistant. Cox and Webster were co-editors on The Gauntlet (1977) and on several more of Eastwood's subsequent films. Starting with Sudden Impact (1983), Cox became Eastwood's principal editor. Cox has been quoted as saying that, over their 30-year partnership, Eastwood has re-cut only a single scene that Cox put together. Gary D. Roach, who worked as Cox's assistant from the mid-1990s, became Cox's co-editor on Eastwood's films with Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). Cox's long streak editing each of Eastwood's films ended with Sully, which was edited by another of his former assistants, Blu Murray.{{cite news |title='Sully' Editor Blu Murray On Cutting The Clint Eastwood Film And The Biggest Challenges Of His Editing Debut |first=Matt |last=Grobar
|date=December 1, 2016 |work=Deadline Hollywood |url=https://deadline.com/2016/12/sully-clint-eastwood-blu-murray-warner-brothers-oscars-interview-1201856331/}}
In addition to his career in the film industry, since 2000 Cox and his family have owned and managed a vineyard and winery near Paso Robles, California.{{cite news |title=Joel Cox nabs wine awards and Oscar nomination |date=January 23, 2015 |first=Mira |last=Honeycutt |work=Paso Robles Daily News |url=http://pasoroblesdailynews.com/mystic-hills-vineyards-owner-joel-cox-nabs-wine-awards-oscar-nomination/30939/}}
Cox won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Unforgiven.{{cite web| last = Kallay | first = William| title = American Cinema Editors: 2004 Oscar Nominees Discuss Their Craft At The Egyptian Theatre| publisher = From Script To DVD| date = 2005-03-03| url = http://www.fromscripttodvd.com/ace_2004_oscar_nominees.htm| access-date = 2008-02-23 }} He has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors.{{cite web|title=Directory Members |publisher=American Cinema Editors |url=http://www.ace-filmeditors.org/newace/dir_Mem.html |access-date=2008-02-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040825064950/http://ace-filmeditors.org/newace/dir_Mem.html |archive-date=2004-08-25 }} On November 25, 2008, Clint Eastwood presented Cox the first Ignacy Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award, which is named in honor of the piano virtuoso who called Paso Robles home, at the first Paso Robles Digital Film Festival.{{cite news|last=Fox |first=Matthew |title=Film festival comes to Paso Robles |publisher=Paso Robles Press |date=2008-08-05 |url=http://www.pasoroblespress.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2414 |access-date=2008-08-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321184212/http://www.pasoroblespress.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=2414 |archive-date=2009-03-21 }}{{cite news|title=Paso Robles Digital Film Fest will honor film-editor Joel Cox |publisher=FilmFestivals.com |date=2008-08-13 |url=http://www.filmfestivals.com/cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=people&text_id=32544 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321182906/http://www.filmfestivals.com/cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs%2Ffilinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=people&text_id=32544 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-03-21 |access-date=2008-08-27 }}{{cite news | last = Linn | first = Sarah | title = Local film editor honored: Clint Eastwood kicks off paso robles film festival | publisher = The San Luis Obispo Tribune | date = 2008-11-22 | url = http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/story/537288.html | access-date = 2008-11-23}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} He received a nomination for the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Changeling{{cite web | title = The full list of nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2009 | publisher = British Academy of Film and Television Arts | date = 2009-01-15 | url = http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/film-nominations-in-2009,657,BA.html | access-date = 2009-01-15 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090117024112/http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/film-nominations-in-2009%2C657%2CBA.html | archive-date = 2009-01-17 }} and for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for American Sniper.
Filmography
The 2008 Paso Robles Digital Film Festival provides a full filmography of Joel Cox as part of his Lifetime Achievement Award.{{cite press release | title = The Paso Robles Digital Film Festival announces the first Ignace Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to the World of Music and Movies, goes to Academy Award winning editor Joel Cox | publisher = Paso Robles Digital Film Festival November 20–25 | url = http://www.pasoroblesfilmfestival.com/Panel%20Members/joel_cox.htm | access-date = 2008-09-22 }}
=Editor=
=Assistant editor=
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| Year
! Film ! Director ! Job ! Notes |
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| 1979
| assistant editor | Eastwood as Frank Morris; edited by Ferris Webster. |
| 1977
| assistant editor | |
| 1976
| Clint Eastwood | assistant editor | Eastwood as Josey Wales; edited by Ferris Webster |
| 1975
| Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins | Dick Richards | assistant editor | Edited by Walter Thompson |
| 1974
| assistant editor | Edited by Robert L. Wolfe |
| 1973
| assistant editor | Eastman's only film as director. |
| 1973
| assistant editor | |
| 1969
| assistant editor | Edited by Barry Malkin |
| 1969
| assistant editor | uncredited |
=Sound department=
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| Year
! Film ! Director ! Job ! Notes |
|---|
| 1969
| sound assistant | |
=Self=
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| Year
! Show ! Episode ! Notes |
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| 2006
| HBO First Look | A Moment in Time... Flags of Our Fathers | |
| 2005
| Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema | | Video |
| 2002
| All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger | | Video |
| 2000
| American Masters | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | |
| 1999
| Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' | | Video |
| 1993
| The 65th Annual Academy Awards | | Winner: Best Film Editing |
| 1993
| Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso | | |
| 1992
| Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' | | |
Awards
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| Year
! Result ! Award ! Category ! Recipient(s) ! Notes |
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| 2015
| Nominated | Oscar | Shared with Gary D. Roach |
| 2005
| Nominated | Oscar | |
| 1993
| Won | Oscar | |
| 2005
| Nominated | Eddie | Edited Feature Film - Dramatic | |
| 2004
| Nominated | Eddie | Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic | |
| 1993
| Won | Eddie | Best Edited Feature Film | |
| 2006
| Won | Hollywood Film Award | Editor of the Year | | |
| 2006
| Nominated | Best Film Editing | |
| 2004
| Nominated | Best Film Editing | |
| 2009
| Nominated | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | BAFTA Award for Best Editing | Shared with Gary D. Roach |
See also
- List of film director and editor collaborations. Clint Eastwood and Cox have had one of the longest and most prolific collaborations in film history.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |title=FilmCraft: Editing |first=Justin |last=Chang |publisher=Octopus Books |date=2012 |isbn=9781908150684}} Chang's book includes an interview with Cox.
- {{cite book |title=A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989 |first=Stephen |last=Prince |publisher=University of California Press |date=2002 |isbn=9780520232662 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newpotofgold00step/page/197 197] |url=https://archive.org/details/newpotofgold00step |url-access=registration |quote=Clint Eastwood's improvisatory approach to filmmaking, wherein he allowed the actors to find their characters and behavior on the set while shooting, found its complement in the stately, unhurried pacing supplied by Joel Cox's editing (Cox succeeding Ferris Webster for Eastwood), on Bronco Billy (1980), Sudden Impact (1983), Tightrope (1984), Pale Rider (1985), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Bird (1988), and Pink Cadillac (1989). The pacing of the Cox-Eastwood films was at striking variance from the accelerating speed of much filmic storytelling in the eighties, especially in action films. Their eighties work anticipates and collectively points towards their supreme achievement in "real-time" editing, The Bridges of Madison County (1995).}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0185088}}
- {{Cite web |url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Joel_Cox/189399 |title=Joel Cox |access-date=2008-02-02 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125113004/http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Joel_Cox/189399 |archive-date=2013-01-25 |url-status=deviated }} at The Hollywood Reporter
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