John Gilroy (film editor)
{{short description|American film editor (born 1959)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = John Gilroy
| image = Portrait de john gilroy.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|6|24}}
| birth_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S.
| occupation = Film editor
| years_active = 1984–present
| children = 1
| parents = Frank D. Gilroy
Ruth Dorothy Gaydos
| relations = Dan Gilroy (twin brother)
Tony Gilroy (brother)
}}
John M. Gilroy (born June 24, 1959){{cite web|url=http://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/john_m_gilroy_born_1959_6880701|title=John M Gilroy|work=California Birth Index|accessdate=February 10, 2015}} is an American film editor whose work includes Michael Clayton, The Bourne Legacy, Warrior, Pacific Rim, Nightcrawler and Suicide Squad.
Life and career
Gilroy was born in 1959 in Santa Monica, California. He is the son of Ruth Dorothy (Gaydos), a sculptor and writer, and Frank D. Gilroy, a filmmaker. He is the twin brother of screenwriter-director Dan Gilroy and the brother of screenwriter-director Tony Gilroy.[http://www.filmreference.com/film/27/Frank-D-Gilroy.html Frank D. Gilroy Biography (1925-)][http://www.filmreference.com/film/39/Tony-Gilroy.html Tony Gilroy Biography ((?)-)] He has a daughter, Carolyn, born in 1990.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2905950/|title=Carolyn Gilroy|website=IMDb}}
John did not originally plan to enter the film industry. He studied government at Dartmouth College with the intention of continuing on to attend law school, but eventually decided to pursue a career in film rather than law. He moved to New York City, where he worked as a bartender for two years before landing his first job as an assistant editor under Rick Shaine on the 1984 adaptation of Herb Gardner's play The Goodbye People.{{cite web|url=http://filmdoctor.co.uk/2015/01/21/in-conversation-john-gilroy-editor-of-nightcrawler-pacific-rim-michael-clayton/|title=In Conversation: John Gilroy (Editor of Nightcrawler, Pacific Rim, Michael Clayton)|work=Film Doctor|date=January 21, 2015|accessdate=February 10, 2015|archive-date=January 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160119191619/http://filmdoctor.co.uk/2015/01/21/in-conversation-john-gilroy-editor-of-nightcrawler-pacific-rim-michael-clayton/|url-status=dead}} He was an editorial assistant on several films made throughout the 1980s, including Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Gardens of Stone (1987). His first film as the primary editor was The Luckiest Man in the World (1989), which was written and directed by his father.{{cite web|url=https://www.editorsguild.com/FromTheGuild.cfm?FromTheGuildid=106|title=Loyola Awards John Gilroy|date=September 28, 2009|publisher=Motion Picture Editors Guild|accessdate=February 10, 2015}}
Gilroy also edited films including Billy Madison (1995), Shadow Magic (2000), Suspect Zero (2004) and Trust the Man (2005). He worked with his brother Tony Gilroy, a screenwriter and director, for the first time on Tony's film Michael Clayton (2007). The film received seven Academy Award nominations and John's editing was nominated for a BAFTA Award and an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. John and Tony later collaborated on Duplicity (2009) and The Bourne Legacy (2012). In 2014 John worked with his other brother, fraternal twin Dan Gilroy, also a screenwriter and director, as the editor of Nightcrawler, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing. He has edited films for every member of his immediate family—his father and both brothers—except his mother.{{cite web|url=http://www.spiritawards.com/spiritawardnominee/john-gilroy/|title=John Gilroy|year=2014|publisher=Film Independent Spirit Awards|accessdate=February 10, 2014}} He has also worked often with director Gavin O'Connor, and edited Phillip Noyce's Salt (2010) and Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim (2013).
Filmography
= Films =
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Film ! Director ! Notes |
|---|
| 1989
|The Luckiest Man in the World | |
| 1993
|rowspan=2|Co-edited with Jeffrey Wolf |
| 1995 |
| rowspan=2|1999
|First collaboration with Gavin O'Connor |
| Game Day
|Steve Klein | |
| 2000
|Ann Hu |Co-edited with Keith Reamer |
| rowspan=2|2002
|Narc | |
| Crazy Little Thing
|Matthew Miller | |
| rowspan=2|2004
|Gavin O'Connor |Second collaboration with Gavin O'Connor |
| Suspect Zero
|Co-edited with Robert K. Lambert |
| 2005
| |
| rowspan=2|2007
|Isaac Webb | |
| Michael Clayton
|First collaboration with Tony Gilroy |
| 2008
|Gavin O'Connor |Third collaboration with Gavin O'Connor |
| 2009
|Tony Gilroy |Second collaboration with Tony Gilroy |
| 2010
|Salt |Co-edited with Stuart Baird |
| 2011
|Gavin O'Connor |Fourth collaboration with Gavin O'Connor |
| 2012
|Tony Gilroy |Third Collaboration with Tony Gilroy |
| 2013
|Co-edited with Peter Amundson |
| 2014
|First Collaboration with Dan Gilroy |
| rowspan=2|2016
| |
| Rogue One
|Co-edited with Colin Goudie and Jabez Olssen |
| 2017
|rowspan=2|Dan Gilroy |Second Collaboration with Dan Gilroy |
| 2019
|Third Collaboration with Dan Gilroy |
= Television series =
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Television series ! Creator ! Editor ! Producer ! Notes |
|---|
| 2022
| {{yes}} | {{yes|Co-producer}} |3 episodes |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0319673}}
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Category:American Cinema Editors
Category:Dartmouth College alumni