# Mark Goldblatt

Mark Goldblatt is an Academy Award-nominated American film editor and film director and president emeritus of the American Cinema Editors.
Brooklyn born Goldblatt studied at the University of Wisconsin and London Film School, where his instructors included Mike Leigh, Clive Donner and Frank Clarke. Upon his return to the United States, Goldblatt observed Alfred Hitchcock on the set of one of his final films, Family Plot, and became a PA at Roger Corman's New World Pictures, where he worked with up-and-coming filmmakers including Joe Dante and Ron Howard. Corman's then-assistant, Gale Ann Hurd, connected Goldblatt with James Cameron, which led to their collaboration on mainstream hits including The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (for which Goldblatt received an Oscar nomination), and True Lies. Lies led to collaborations with Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Bad Company, Bad Boys II) and Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, Hollow Man and Starship Troopers). Goldblatt's additional credits include Rambo: First Blood Part II, Commando, Predator 2, X-Men: The Last Stand, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Chappie, and Death Wish. He also directed The Punisher and Dead Heat.
Goldblatt describes the best part of being an editor as, "Being able to create something out of a given set of filmed material that seems to be greater than the sum of its parts. By this I mean subtext and grace and counterpoint of characters (and performances) that comes out of a dialectical montage."
He is a member and former vice president and president of the American Cinema Editors (or ACE Society) as well as a long-standing Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2018, Goldblatt became an ACE Career Achievement Awards honoree.
He is the father of actor, director, and editor Max Goldblatt.

## Filmography

| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
| 1976 | Eat My Dust! | Charles B. Griffith | Production assistant |
| 1976 | Hollywood Boulevard | Joe Dante | Production assistant |
| 1976 | Hollywood Boulevard | Allan Arkush | Production assistant |
| 1977 | Grand Theft Auto | Ron Howard | Associate editor |
| 1978 | Piranha | Joe Dante | Saturn Award for Best Editing |
| 1979 | Spirit of the Wind | Ralph Liddle | |
| 1980 | Humanoids from the Deep | Barbara Peeters | |
| 1981 | Enter the Ninja | Menahem Golan | |
| 1981 | The Howling | Joe Dante | |
| 1981 | Halloween II | Rick Rosenthal | |
| 1981 | Halloween II | John Carpenter | |
| 1983 | Get Crazy | Allan Arkush | Supervising editor |
| 1983 | Wavelength | Mike Gray | |
| 1984 | Over the Brooklyn Bridge | Menahem Golan | |
| 1984 | The Ambassador | J. Lee Thompson | |
| 1984 | The Terminator | James Cameron | Editor |
| 1985 | Commando | Mark L. Lester | |
| 1985 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | George P. Cosmatos | |
| 1986 | Jumpin' Jack Flash | Penny Marshall | |
| 1987 | Innerspace | Joe Dante | Additional editor |
| 1987 | RoboCop | Paul Verhoeven | Second unit director |
| 1988 | Dead Heat | Mark Goldblatt | Director only |
| 1989 | The Punisher | Mark Goldblatt | Director only |
| 1990 | Nightbreed | Clive Barker | |
| 1990 | Predator 2 | Stephen Hopkins | |
| 1991 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | James Cameron | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated—ACE Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic |
| 1991 | The Last Boy Scout | Tony Scott | |
| 1992 | Universal Soldier | Roland Emmerich | Editorial consultant |
| 1993 | Super Mario Bros. | Rocky Morton | |
| 1993 | Super Mario Bros. | Annabel Jankel | |
| 1993 | Tombstone | George P. Cosmatos | Additional editor |
| 1993 | Tombstone | Kevin Jarre | Additional editor |
| 1994 | True Lies | James Cameron | Nominated—ACE Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic |
| 1995 | Showgirls | Paul Verhoeven | |
| 1996 | The Rock | Michael Bay | Additional editor |
| 1997 | Starship Troopers | Paul Verhoeven | |
| 1998 | Armageddon | Michael Bay | |
| 1999 | Detroit Rock City | Adam Rifkin | |
| 2000 | Hollow Man | Paul Verhoeven | |
| 2001 | Pearl Harbor | Michael Bay | |
| 2002 | Bad Company | Joel Schumacher | |
| 2003 | Bad Boys II | Michael Bay | |
| 2004 | Exorcist: The Beginning | Renny Harlin | |
| 2004 | The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing | Wendy Apple | Self appearance only |
| 2005 | XXX: State of the Union | Lee Tamahori | |
| 2006 | X-Men: The Last Stand | Brett Ratner | Satellite Award for Best Editing |
| 2009 | Case 39 | Christian Alvart | |
| 2009 | G-Force | Hoyt Yeatman | |
| 2009 | Calvin Marshall | Gary Lundgren | Editorial consultant |
| 2010 | The Wolfman | Joe Johnston | Uncredited |
| 2010 | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | David Slade | Additional editor |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Rupert Wyatt | |
| 2013 | Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters | Thor Freudenthal | |
| 2015 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Mike Mitchell | Additional editor |
| 2015 | Chappie | Neill Blomkamp | |
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Cedric Nicolas-Troyan | Additional editor |
| 2018 | Death Wish | Eli Roth | |

## Awards and nominations

Goldblatt is an Academy Award nominee for his work on Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a winner of Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films' Saturn Award for Piranha (1978) and a Satellite Award for X-Men: The Last Stand, and was twice nominated for ACE's Eddie Award for his work on Terminator 2: Judgment Day and True Lies.