# Douglas Crise

Douglas Crise is an American film editor.

## Biography

Douglas Crise was born May 1, 1961, to Glenn Crise, a retired mail carrier, and Catherine, a homemaker. The middle child of the family, Crise grew up in Smithton, Pennsylvania. In 1979, Crise graduated from Yough High School and soon began to work as a meat cutter at Shop 'n Save in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. Crise graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in film studies and moved to Los Angeles to find work in the film industry, working for a little while as a movie lot truck driver. After a short stay in Los Angeles, Crise returned to Pittsburgh for a year before returning to California to work as a film editor. For months, Crise worked as an unpaid intern, apprentice, and assistant editor for very little money. Crise eventually worked his way up the film industry working as an assistant editor. In 1997, Crise worked as an assistant editor on the film Clockwatchers, with lead editor, Stephen Mirrione. This was the beginning of what would be a long-lasting collaboration between Crise and Mirrione. Eventually, Crise and Mirrione collaborated as co-editors on Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2006 film, Babel. For their work on the film, Crise and Mirrione received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing, and the Satellite Award for Best Editing. In addition to this, Crise and Mirrione won the 2007 ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic tying with Thelma Schoonmaker for The Departed, making it only the second tie in ACE Eddie Award history.

## Filmography

| Year | Film | Director | Other notes |
| 1993 | Percy & Thunder | Ivan Dixon | Television film second assistant editor |
| 1993 | Return of the Living Dead 3 | Brian Yuzna | assistant editor |
| 1993 | Necronomicon | Brian Yuzna Christophe Gans Shusuke Kaneko | first assistant editor |
| 1994 | Leprechaun 2 | Rodman Flender | assistant editor |
| 1995 | Kicking and Screaming | Noah Baumbach | first assistant editor |
| 1996 | Livers Ain't Cheap | James Merendino | first assistant editor |
| 1996 | Barb Wire | David Hogan | assistant film editor |
| 1997 | Clockwatchers | Jill Sprecher | first assistant editor |
| 1998 | The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit | Stuart Gordon | assistant film editor |
| 1998 | Gunshy | Jeff Celentano | assistant editor |
| 1998 | Progeny | Brian Yuzna | additional assistant editor |
| 1998 | A Cool, Dry Place | John N. Smith | assistant editor |
| 1999 | Go | Doug Liman | first assistant editor |
| 2000 | Traffic | Steven Soderbergh | first assistant editor |
| 2001 | Ocean's Eleven | Steven Soderbergh | first assistant editor |
| 2002 | Highway | James Cox | first assistant editor |
| 2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | George Clooney | first assistant editor |
| 2003 | 21 Grams | Alejandro González Iñárritu | assistant editor |
| 2004 | Ocean's Twelve | Steven Soderbergh | assistant editor |
| 2004 | Criminal | Gregory Jacobs | |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | George Clooney | first assistant editor |
| 2006 | Babel | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Film Editing with Stephen Mirrione |
| 2007 | The Nines | John August | |
| 2008 | Deception | Marcel Langenegger | |
| 2008 | Lovely, Still | Nicholas Fackler | |
| 2009 | Breaking Point | Jeff Celentano | |
| 2010 | Trust | David Schwimmer | |
| 2011 | Kill the Irishman | Jonathan Hensleigh | |
| 2012 | Arbitrage | Nicholas Jarecki | |
| 2012 | Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | |
| 2013 | Decoding Annie Parker | Steven Bernstein | |
| 2014 | Cesar Chavez | Diego Luna | |
| 2014 | Birdman | Alejandro González Iñárritu | |
| 2015 | Dark Places | Gilles Paquet-Brenner | |
| 2016 | Mr. Pig | Diego Luna | |
| 2016 | Gold | Stephen Gaghan | |
| 2016 | Deserted | Ashley Avis | |
| 2017 | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Peter Landesman | special thanks |
| 2018 | Adolescence | Ashley Avis | |
| 2018 | Zoe | Drake Doremus | |
| 2018 | London Fields | Mathew Cullen | |
| 2019 | The Beach Bum | Harmony Korine | |
| 2021 | The Survivor | Barry Levinson | |
| 2023 | The Hill | Jeff Celentano | |
| 2024 | Blackwater Lane | Jeff Celentano | |