# Gary D. Roach

Gary D. Roach (born February 5, 1964), sometimes credited as Gary Roach, is an American film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood on 12 films.

## Life and career

Roach began his career in 1996 as an apprentice film editor on Clint Eastwood's Absolute Power. On Eastwood's next film, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Roach was an assistant editor and became part of Eastwood's regular editing crew alongside Joel Cox. Roach went on to receive assistant editor credits on Eastwood's subsequent films True Crime, Space Cowboys, Blood Work, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, and Flags of our Fathers. Non-Eastwood assistant editor credits include Catwoman (2004). His first co-editor credit came with the Eastwood-directed Piano Blues segment of Martin Scorsese's The Blues film documentary series in 2003. Roach continued editing other documentaries, such as The Music Never Ends (2007). Roach's first film editor credit was on 2006's Letters From Iwo Jima, which he shared with Joel Cox. His first solo film editor credit was on Rails & Ties for Alison Eastwood in 2007. In 2008, Roach shared editor credit with Joel Cox on Eastwood's Changeling and Gran Torino. He and Joel Cox received a nomination for the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Changeling and for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for American Sniper.

## Filmography
### Editor

| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
| 2024 | Arthur the King | Simon Cellan Jones | |
| 2017 | Wind River | Taylor Sheridan | |
| 2014 | American Sniper | Clint Eastwood | |
| 2013 | Prisoners | Denis Villeneuve | |
| 2012 | J. Edgar | Clint Eastwood | as Gary D. Roach |
| 2010 | Hereafter | Clint Eastwood | as Gary D. Roach |
| 2009 | Invictus | Clint Eastwood | as Gary D. Roach |
| 2008 | Gran Torino | Clint Eastwood | as Gary D. Roach |
| 2008 | Changeling | Clint Eastwood | as Gary D. Roach |
| 2007 | American Masters Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends | Bruce Ricker | (TV) Clint Eastwood Producer |
| 2007 | Rails & Ties | Alison Eastwood | Robert Lorenz Producer |
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Clint Eastwood | |
| 2005 | Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That | Bruce Ricker | (TV) |

### Editorial department

| Year | Film | Director | Job | Notes |
| 2006 | Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood | assistant film editor | |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood | assistant editor | Clint Eastwood as Frankie Dunn |
| 2004 | Catwoman | Pitof | first assistant editor | |
| 2003 | Piano Blues | Clint Eastwood | assistant editor | |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Clint Eastwood | assistant editor | Original Music by Clint Eastwood |
| 2002 | Blood Work | Clint Eastwood | assistant film editor as Gary D. Roach | Clint Eastwood as Terry McCaleb |
| 2000 | Space Cowboys | Clint Eastwood | assistant editor as Gary D. Roach | Clint Eastwood as Frank Corvin Original Music by Clint Eastwood |
| 1999 | True Crime | Clint Eastwood | assistant film editor | Clint Eastwood as Steve Everett |
| 1998 | Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years | William Harper | assistant editor | video |
| 1997 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Clint Eastwood | assistant film editor | |
| 1997 | Absolute Power | Clint Eastwood | assistant film editor | Clint Eastwood as Luther Whitney |
| 1997 | Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall | Bruce Ricker | assistant editor | (TV) |

### Thanks

| Year | Show | Episode | Notes |
| 2005 | | Budd Boetticher: An American Original | Video |
| 2000 | American Masters | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | |

## Awards

| Year | Result | Award | Category | Recipient(s) | Notes |
| 2015 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Film Editing | American Sniper | Shared with Joel Cox |
| 2009 | Nominated | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | BAFTA Award for Best Editing | Changeling | Shared with Joel Cox |