page_title: List of film director and editor collaborations
section_title: 20–24 years
hierarchical_section_title: List of film director and editor collaborations / 20–24 years
caption_attribution_description: Film producer and director Robert Wise at the premiere of Air America in 1990
context_page_description: This list of film director and editor collaborations includes longstanding, notable partnerships of directors and editors. The list's importance is that directors and editors typically work together on the editing of a film, which is the ultimate step of filmmaking during which the dozens or hundreds of hours of raw film footage are pruned and woven into the final film. Film critic Walter Kerr has argued that editing is comparable in its importance to directing itself, and should be credited as such; he wrote "At the very least, it seems to me, the editor's credit should be rescued from its place near the bottom of the list, an area we may call Oblivion. And I don't mean the editor should be given a mere half-a-leg up, nudged one inch higher in the Pantheon of creative people who do things. The best he ever gets now is fourth or fifth spot, somewhere after the principal photographer and two or three screenwriters. Second position is where he belongs, and no lower, if we're still going to hold him to also-ran status."
context_section_description: Paul Thomas Anderson: Dylan Tichenor (1997–present), There Will Be Blood (2007).
  Robert Aldrich: Michael Luciano (1955-1977), The Dirty Dozen (1967).
  Woody Allen: Susan E. Morse (1977-1998), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).
  Richard Attenborough: Lesley Walker (1987-2007), Cry Freedom (1987).
  Tim Burton: Chris Lebenzon (1992–present), Big Fish (2003).
  Michael Curtiz: Owen Marks (1930–1953), Casablanca (1942).
  Blake Edwards: Ralph E. Winters (1963–84), Victor Victoria (1982).
  Federico Fellini: Ruggero Mastroianni (1965–1986), Amarcord (1973).
  James Goldstone: Edward A. Biery (1968-1988),  Earth Star Voyager (1988).
  Lasse Hallström: Andrew Mondshein (1991–present), Chocolat (2000).
  Henry Hathaway: Dorothy Spencer (1941-1964),  Circus World (1964).
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Hervé Schneid (1991–present), Amélie (2001).
  Walter Lang: Robert L. Simpson (1940–1960), The King and I (1956).
  Ang Lee: Tim Squyres (1993–present), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
  Barry Levinson: Stu Linder (1982–2004), Rain Man (1988).
  Mitchell Leisen: Doane Harrison (1935–1958), Hold Back the Dawn (1941).
  Richard Linklater: Sandra Adair (1993–present), Boyhood (2014).
  Alan J. Pakula: Sam O'Steen (1969-1992), Consenting Adults (1992).
  Roman Polanski: Sam O'Steen (1968–1988), Chinatown (1974).
  Sydney Pollack: William Steinkamp (1982–2005), Out of Africa (1985).
  Michael Ritchie: Richard A. Harris (1969-1989), Fletch Lives (1989).
  Tony Scott: Chris Lebenzon (1986–2010), Top Gun (1986).
  John Sturges: Ferris Webster (1950–1972), The Great Escape (1963).
  Robert Wise: William H. Reynolds (1951–1973), The Sound of Music (1965).
  Stephen Sommers: Bob Ducsay (1989-2009), The Mummy (1999).
caption: 1990 photograph of Robert Wise, the editor of Citizen Kane (1941) and the director of West Side Story (1961).
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