Gerry Hambling

Gerry Hambling (14 June 1926 – 5 February 2013) was a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he had also worked as a sound editor and a television editor. Hambling's editing of three films, ''The Commitments'' (1991), ''Mississippi Burning'' (1988), and ''Midnight Express'' (1978), has been honored by BAFTA Awards for Best Editing.

In 1976, Hambling began a notable collaboration with the director Alan Parker that extended over nearly all of Parker's films. The three BAFTA awards noted above were all for films directed by Parker. Chris Routledge has described their collaboration as follows:

In addition to the three BAFTA Awards, Hambling had been nominated for the BAFTA award for three additional films (''Fame'', ''Another Country'', and ''Evita''). Six films edited by Hambling were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (''Midnight Express'', ''Fame'', ''Mississippi Burning'', ''The Commitments'', ''In the Name of the Father'', and ''Evita''). Hambling had been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. ''Mississippi Burning'' won the ACE Eddie Award, and in 1998, Hambling was honored with the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.

According to Alan Parker, by the time Hambling retired in 2003 he was one of just two editors still cutting film manually using a Moviola machine; the other being Michael Kahn, Steven Spielberg's editor. He died in 2013 at the age of 86. Provided by Wikipedia