page_title: List of film director and editor collaborations
section_title: 30–34 years
hierarchical_section_title: List of film director and editor collaborations / 30–34 years
caption_attribution_description: English: John Ottman, film editor, composer and director
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: John Badham: Frank Morriss (1974–2004), Blue Thunder (1983).
  Bob Clark: Stan Cole (1974–2005),The Karate Dog (2005).
  Bill Condon: Virginia Katz (1987–present), Dreamgirls (2006).
  Martha Coolidge: Richard Chew (1985–present), I'll Find You (2019).
  Brian De Palma: Paul Hirsch (1970–2000), Mission to Mars (2000).
  Stephen Frears: Mick Audsley (1982–2013), Dangerous Liaisons (1988).
  Lawrence Kasdan: Carol Littleton (1981–2012), The Accidental Tourist (1988).
  Spike Lee: Barry Alexander Brown (1988–present), BlacKkKlansman (2018).
  Mike Leigh: Jon Gregory (1988–present), Secrets & Lies (1996).
  Terrence Malick: Billy Weber (1978–2011), The Thin Red Line (1998).
  Ivan Reitman: Sheldon Kahn (1984–2014), Draft Day (2014).
  Bryan Singer: John Ottman (1988–present), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
caption: John Ottman has had a long collaboration with director Bryan Singer, and is also noted for his musical scoring of many films and television programs.
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