# Richard Francis-Bruce

Richard Leslie Francis-Bruce AM (born 10 December 1948) is an Australian film editor who has received several nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.

## Career

Francis-Bruce aspired to be a cinematographer like his father, Jack Bruce, who worked for Hollywood players like Cecil B. DeMille and the Famous Lansky Players. Nonetheless, Richard's aspirations landed him an editing gig at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Sydney, where he spent 15 years honing his craft.
Francis-Bruce collaborated with filmmaker George Miller on a plethora of films including Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), and Lorenzo's Oil (1992).
Francis-Bruce later earned Academy Award nominations for his Best Film Editing work on Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption (1994), David Fincher's Seven (1995) and Wolfgang Petersen's Air Force One (1997). Francis-Bruce was nominated for ACE Eddie Awards for The Shawshank Redemption, The Rock (directed by Michael Bay - 1996), Air Force One, and for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (directed by Chris Columbus - 2001). In 1997, he was invited to become a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE).
In 1996, Francis-Bruce visited Australia and spoke at a seminar at the Australian Film Television and Radio School entitled Frame by Frame. Francis-Bruce explained the importance of understanding internal rhythm and external rhythm as well as the choices he made in and between every shot throughout the film Seven.

## Filmography

| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
| 1974 | Lindsay's Boy | Frank Arnold | Television film |
| 1975 | They Don't Clap Losers | John Power | Television film |
| 1978 | Because He's My Friend | Ralph Nelson | Television film |
| 1978 | Puzzle | Gordon Hessler | Television film |
| 1983 | Goodbye Paradise | Carl Schultz | |
| 1983 | Careful, He Might Hear You | Carl Schultz | Nominated — AACTA Award for Best Editing |
| 1985 | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | George Miller George Ogilvie | |
| 1986 | Short Changed | George Ogilvie | Nominated — AACTA Award for Best Editing |
| 1986 | The Mosquito Coast | Peter Weir | Editor |
| 1987 | The Witches of Eastwick | George Miller | |
| 1987 | Bullseye | Carl Schultz | Nominated — AACTA Award for Best Editing |
| 1988 | Barracuda | Pino Amenta | Television film |
| 1989 | Dead Calm | Phillip Noyce | AACTA Award for Best Editing |
| 1989 | The Blood of Heroes | David Peoples | |
| 1990 | Cadillac Man | Roger Donaldson | |
| 1991 | Crooked Hearts | Michael Bortman | |
| 1992 | The Nightman | Charles Haid | Television film |
| 1992 | Lorenzo's Oil | George Miller | |
| 1993 | Sliver | Phillip Noyce | |
| 1994 | The Shawshank Redemption | Frank Darabont | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated — ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic |
| 1994 | Speechless | Ron Underwood | |
| 1995 | Seven | David Fincher | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Film Editing |
| 1996 | The Rock | Michael Bay | Nominated — ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic |
| 1997 | Air Force One | Wolfgang Petersen | Nominated — Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated — ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Editing |
| 1998 | The Replacement Killers | Antoine Fuqua | Special thanks |
| 1998 | Goodbye Lover | Roland Joffé | Additional editor |
| 1999 | Instinct | Jon Turteltaub | |
| 1999 | The Green Mile | Frank Darabont | |
| 2000 | The Perfect Storm | Wolfgang Petersen | |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Chris Columbus | Nominated — ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Editing Film released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US |
| 2002 | Path to War | John Frankenheimer | Television film |
| 2003 | The Italian Job | F. Gary Gray | |
| 2004 | The Forgotten | Joseph Ruben | |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | Mark Steven Johnson | |
| 2008 | David & Fatima | Alain Zaloum | |
| 2009 | Daybreakers | Spierig brothers | Additional editor |
| 2010 | Repo Men | Miguel Sapochnik | |
| 2010 | Killers | Robert Luketic | |
| 2010 | Main Street | John Doyle | |
| 2012 | For Greater Glory | Dean Wright | |
| 2013 | Oblivion | Joseph Kosinski | |
| 2014 | Divergent | Neil Burger | |
| 2015 | Truth | James Vanderbilt | |
| 2016 | Ben-Hur | Timur Bekmambetov | |
| 2017 | Fifty Shades Darker | James Foley | |
| 2018 | Fifty Shades Freed | James Foley | |