Anne McCabe

Anne McCabe is an American film editor who has worked in movies and television with directors Greg Mottola, Kenneth Lonergan, Chris Rock, Marielle Heller, and many more since the late 1980s.
==Early Life==
McCabe was born in Palo Alto, California to Bernard McCabe from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England and Lucy Staton McCabe from Washington, D.C. One of nine siblings, she grew up mostly in Cambridge, Massachusetts but also in London and Copenhagen. Her father, of Irish descent, was a Professor of English at Tufts University. Her mother was of Scottish descent. Her uncle Herbert McCabe was a Dominican priest, well-known theologian, philosopher, and professor at the University of Oxford and editor of the Catholic journal New Blackfriars.
She graduated from Commonwealth High School in Boston, Massachusetts and Barnard College, Columbia University.
==Early Career==
McCabe began her career as an apprentice editor for such films as Brian De Palma's Casualties of War (1989), Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us (1992) and Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). During the 1990s she also worked as an assistant music editor for such films as The Pelican Brief (film)|The Pelican Brief and Life with Mikey, and as an assistant (film) editor on many projects including several concert and other music-related films (Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight, The Mambo Kings, Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival).
==1995 - Present==
McCabe has accumulated more than three dozen film and television credits since the mid-1990s, including comedies, dramas, and documentaries.
She worked on several projects for director Greg Mottola, including The Daytrippers (1996), Adventureland (film) (2009), and the pilot for [HBO's The Newsroom (American TV series), for which she won the American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Drama Series for Non-Commercial Television. The show also won a Critics' Choice Television Award for Most Exciting New Series in 2012.
She worked with Kenneth Lonergan on his directorial debut, the Academy Awards-nominated film You Can Count On Me (2000) and on Margaret (2011 film)|Margaret (2011), and with Chris Rock on his comedy Top Five (2014).
McCabe has edited three films for director Marielle Heller: Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the 2018 Lee Israel biopic starring Melissa McCarthy;
 It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, the 2019 Fred Rogers biopic starring Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys; and Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me (2020).
Her films with 2021 releases include the adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen, directed by Stephen Chbosky (2021) and Land, Robin Wright's directorial debut.
==Television==
McCabe's television work includes a dozen episodes of Nurse Jackie (2011), episodes of Damages (TV series) (2011), the pilot episode of The Newsroom (American TV series) (2012), an episode of The Purge (TV series) (2018), and several episodes of HBO's Succession (TV series) in 2018-19 including the well-known "showdown" episode from the first season. Her television documentary credits include the Peter Jennings Reporting special "Breakdown: American's Health Insurance Crisis" (2005).
==Music Career==
Also a singer and musician, McCabe released a jazz album, I'd Prefer, with tenor saxophonist George Coleman and her brother, composer and saxophonist Alexander McCabe, in 2020. It reached number 4 on Roots Music Report's Top Jazz Albums chart for the week of March 6, 2021.
==Personal Life==
McCabe has eight siblings: Kate, John, Matthew, Louisa, Daniel, Anne, Alexander, Stephen, and Peter. She is married to New York Times sportswriter David Waldstein and has three adopted children from Ecuador, Elena Waldstein-McCabe, Luisa Waldstein-McCabe, and Luis Waldstein-McCabe. Based in New York, she has also lived in Ireland, France, Prague, Copenhagen, and Manchester, England.
==Awards and Nominations==
* 2011: Nominee, American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television, Nurse Jackie
* 2013: Winner, American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Drama Series for Non-Commercial Television, The Newsroom
* 2019: Winner, Peabody Award, Succession
==Filmography==
Year	Project 	Medium 	Role 	Episode(s)
2021	Dear Evan Hansen 	Film 	Editor 	
2021	Land 	Film 	Editor 	
2020	What the Constitution Means to Me 	Film 	Editor 	
2020	Covid Is No Joke 	TV 	Editor 	Special
2019	Succession 	TV 	Editor 	"Dundee"
2019	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 	Film 	Editor 	
2018	Succession 	TV 	Editor 	"Pre-Nuptial," "Which Side Are You On?"
2018	The Purge 	TV 	Editor 	"Lovely Dark and Deep"
2018	Can You Ever Forgive Me? 	Film 	Editor 	
2018	An Actor Prepares 	Film 	Editor 	
2017	Pottersville 	Film 	Supervising Editor 	
2017	Landline 	Film 	Consulting Editor 	
2016	BrainDead 	TV 	Editor 	4 episodes
2016	Younger 	TV 	Editor 	"Beyond Therapy," "Jersey, Sure," "The Mao Function"
2016	Dirty Grandpa 	Film 	Editor 	
2015	Younger 	TV 	Editor 	"I'm with Stupid," "Girl Code"
2014	Top Five 	Film 	Editor 	
2013	Onion News Empire 	TV Movie 	Editor 	
2013	The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete 	Film 	Additional Editor 	
2012	Thanks for Sharing 	Film 	Editor 	
2012	The Newsroom 	TV 	Editor 	"We Just Decided To"
2011	Margaret 	Film 	Editor 	
2011	Damages 	TV 	Editor 	3 episodes
2011	Skins 	TV 	Editor 	"Chris"
2011	Nurse Jackie 	TV 	Editor 	6 episodes
2011	The Ledge 	Film 	Editor 	
2011	Butter 	Film 	Additional Editor 	
2010	Nurse Jackie 	TV 	Editor 	6 episodes
2010	An Invisible Sign 	Film 	Additional Editor 	
2009	Possible Side Effects 	TV Movie 	Editor 	
2009	Labor Pains 	Film 	Editor 	
2009	Adventureland 	Film 	Editor 	
2005	Peter Jennings Reporting: Breakdown - America's Health Insurance Crisis	TV Special 	Editor 	
2005	Bittersweet Place 	Film 	Supervising Editor 	
2004	Maria Full of Grace 	Film 	Editor 	
2001	Peroxide Passion 	Film 	Editor 	
2000	Peter Jennings Reporting: Family Business 	TV Movie Documentary 	Editor 	
2000	Achilles' Love 	Film 	Editor 	
2000	Catalina Trust 	Film 	Editor 	
2000	You Can Count on Me 	Film 	Editor 	
1999	Raw Nerve 	Film 	Editor, Music Editor 	
1999	Final Rinse 	Film 	Editor 	
1998	Snapped 	Film 	Editor 	
1998	A Price Above Rubies 	Film 	Assistant Editor: New York 	
1996	I'm Not Rappaport 	Film 	Editor 	
1996	The Daytrippers 	Film 	Editor 	
1996	Message to Love 	Documentary 	Assistant Editor 	
1995	"Little Women in Transit" 	Short 	Editor 	
1995	Sabrina 	Film 	Assistant Editor: New York Dailies 	
1994	The Last Good Time 	Film 	Assistant Music Editor 	
1994	Drop Squad 	Film 	Assistant Music Editor 	
1993	American Masters 	TV Documentary Series	Assistant Editor 	"Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time"
1993	The Pelican Brief 	Film 	Assistant Music Editor 	
1993	Life with Mikey 	Film 	Assistant Music Editor 	
1992	A Stranger Among Us 	Film 	Apprentice Film Editor 	
1992	The Mambo Kings 	Film 	Apprentice Editor 	
1991	Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight 	Documentary 	First Assistant Editor 	
1989	Crimes and Misdemeanors 	Film 	Apprentice Film Editor 	
1989	Casualties of War 	Film 	Apprentice Film Editor 	
1988	The Prince of Pennsylvania 	Film 	Post-Production Assistant 	
1988	Shakedown 	Film 	Apprentice Music Editor (uncredited)	
Category:American film editors
Category:American music video directors
Category:People from Palo Alto, California
Category:Columbia University alumni