Department
Editing
The cutting room. Editors and their assistants — credited and cross-referenced to every production they shaped.
- 12,401
- People in archive
- 35
- Top-credited count
- 4
- Roles indexed
- 6
- Curated dossiers
Cross-cuts
Most-cited professionals
All →| Name | Primary role | Nationality | Born | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akira Kurosawa | Director | Japan | 1910 | 35 |
| Charlie Chaplin | Composer | UK | 1889 | 29 |
| Bo Burnham | Composer | USA | 1990 | 10 |
| Alfonso Cuarón | Director | Mexico | 1961 | 9 |
| Carl Theodor Dreyer | Director | Denmark | 1889 | 9 |
| James Cameron | Director | Canada | 1954 | 9 |
| Philip Stockton | Supervising Sound Editor | — | — | 9 |
| Buster Keaton | Director | USA | 1895 | 8 |
| Ethan Coen | Director | USA | 1957 | 8 |
| Joel Coen | Director | US | 1954 | 8 |
| Lee Smith | Editor | Australia | 1960 | 8 |
| Ron Fricke | Director | USA | 1953 | 8 |
| Takeshi Seyama | Editor | Japan | 1944 | 8 |
| Hirokazu Kore-eda | Director | Japan | 1962 | 7 |
| Hugo Weng | Dialog Editor | — | — | 7 |
Curated dossiers
Glossary6 terms · editing vocabulary
- Editor (Picture)
- The lead editor of the film. Cuts the picture under the director's guidance. Credit usually reads "Edited by" — single or co-edited.
- First Assistant Editor
- Manages the cutting-room workflow: syncing dailies, file management, conform, output. Often the editor-in-training pipeline.
- Dialog Editor
- Cleans and assembles dialog after picture lock — removes lip smacks, balances levels, preps for ADR and re-recording.
- Cut versions
- Editor's cut → director's cut → studio cut → theatrical / streaming cut. Pro pages note which version a credit reflects.
- Conform
- Re-linking the offline cut's decisions to original camera files at full resolution and color, ahead of color grading.
- Avid / Premiere / Resolve
- NLE choice often appears in interviews; pages note when documented.