Kent Beyda
Kent Beyda (born October 11, 1953) is an American film editor. Life and career. Beyda worked as an assistant editor on John Cassavetes' "Opening Night" (1977), Allan Arkush's "Rock 'n' Roll High School" (1979), and Joe Dante's "The Howling" (1981). He then moved into editing on the Julie Corman-produced "Saturday the 14th" (1981). On that film Beyda met his wife Nancy who was at that time working as Corman's assistant. He went on to do a series of music videos for Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello, Dokken, Bette Midler and Mick Jagger, Aldo Nova, Barbra  Streisand, and Arkush's follow-up to "Rock 'n' Roll High School" called "Get Crazy" (1983). He then edited the mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984). Beyda's first film for a major studio was "Fright Night" (1985), a horror comedy for Columbia Pictures. Next he edited "Out of Bounds" (1986), directed by Richard Tuggle for Columbia. Beyda went on to edit "Innerspace" (1987) produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Joe Dante, "" (1986), a documentary about the Los Angeles punk group X, "Alien Nation" (1988), "Fear" (1990) starring Ally Sheedy, Spielberg and Dante's "" (1990), "True Identity" (1991), Billy  Crystal's directorial debut "Mr. Saturday Night" (1992), Spielberg and Brian Levant's "The Flintstones" (1994), Crystal's "Forget Paris" (1995), "Jingle All the Way" (1996) with Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The Out-of-Towners" (1999) with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" (2000), "Big Momma's House" (2000), "Scooby-Doo" (2002), "" (2004), "S. Darko" (2009), "Jonah Hex" (2010), "Yogi Bear" (2010), and "Parental Guidance" (2012). As a consultant, Beyda has participated in the films "George of the Jungle" (1997), "Dude, Where's My Car?" (2000), "Robots" (2005), "Idiocracy" (2006), "Fantastic Four" (2005), "Horton Hears a Who !" (2008), and "Despicable Me" (2010). He has worked on location in New York, Paris, San Francisco, Atlanta, Vancouver, Australia, and New Zealand. He is a member of American Cinema Editors and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In September 2009, Beyda took part in "Editing for Animation", the second part of the Academy's "Perspectives in Editing" series. The event featured a panel of five current leading animation editors, Beyda, John Carnochan, Kevin Nolting, Nancy Frazen, and Lois Freeman-Fox.