# John Gilroy (film editor)

John M. Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) 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. He has a daughter, Carolyn, born in 1990.
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. 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.
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. 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

| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
| 1989 | The Luckiest Man in the World | Frank D. Gilroy | |
| 1993 | Who's the Man? | Ted Demme | Co-edited with Jeffrey Wolf |
| 1995 | Billy Madison | Tamra Davis | Co-edited with Jeffrey Wolf |
| 1999 | Tumbleweeds | Gavin O'Connor | First collaboration with Gavin O'Connor |
| 1999 | Game Day | Steve Klein | |
| 2000 | Shadow Magic | Ann Hu | Co-edited with Keith Reamer |
| 2002 | Narc | Joe Carnahan | |
| 2002 | Crazy Little Thing | Matthew Miller | |
| 2004 | Miracle | Gavin O'Connor | Second collaboration with Gavin O'Connor Co-edited with Daric Loo |
| 2004 | Suspect Zero | E. Elias Merhige | Co-edited with Robert K. Lambert |
| 2005 | Trust the Man | Bart Freundlich | |
| 2007 | First Born | Isaac Webb | |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy | First collaboration with Tony Gilroy Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Editing |
| 2008 | Pride and Glory | Gavin O'Connor | Third collaboration with Gavin O'Connor Co-edited with Lisa Zeno Churgin |
| 2009 | Duplicity | Tony Gilroy | Second collaboration with Tony Gilroy |
| 2010 | Salt | Philip Noyce | Co-edited with Stuart Baird |
| 2011 | Warrior | Gavin O'Connor | Fourth collaboration with Gavin O'Connor Co-edited with Aaron Marshall, Matt Chesse and Sean Albertson |
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Tony Gilroy | Third Collaboration with Tony Gilroy |
| 2013 | Pacific Rim | Guillermo del Toro | Co-edited with Peter Amundson |
| 2014 | Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy | First Collaboration with Dan Gilroy Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Editing |
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | David Ayer | |
| 2016 | Rogue One | Gareth Edwards | Co-edited with Colin Goudie and Jabez Olssen |
| 2017 | Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Dan Gilroy | Second Collaboration with Dan Gilroy |
| 2019 | Velvet Buzzsaw | Dan Gilroy | Third Collaboration with Dan Gilroy |

### Television series

| Year | Television series | Creator | Editor | Producer | Notes |
| 2022 | Andor | Tony Gilroy | Yes | Co-producer | 3 episodes Fourth collaboration with Tony and Dan Gilroy Co-edited with Tim Porter |