Thom Noble

Thom Noble
Thom Noble
Occupation	film editor

Thom Noble is a British film editor who won an Academy Award and an ACE Eddie Award for the film Witness (1985).^[1] He was nominated for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film Thelma & Louise (1991).^[2]^[3]

In 2018, he was on jury for the Mumbai International Film Festival.^[4]

Selected filmography

Editor
Year	Film	Director	Notes
1966	Fahrenheit 451	François Truffaut
1967	The Violent Enemy	Don Sharp
1967	The Man Outside	Samuel Gallu
1970	The Man Who Had Power Over Women	John Krish
1971	And Now for Something Completely Different	Ian MacNaughton
1972	The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie	Jack Starrett
1973	Redneck	Silvio Narizzano
1974	Billy Two Hats	Ted Kotcheff	Second collaboration with Ted Kotcheff
1974	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Ted Kotcheff	Third collaboration with Ted Kotcheff
1975	Rosebud	Otto Preminger
1975	Inside Out	Peter Duffell
1976	It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet	Eric Till	First collaboration with Eric Till
1977	Joseph Andrews	Tony Richardson
	Black Joy	Anthony Simmons
	The Mighty Peking Man	Ho Meng Hua
1978	Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?	Ted Kotcheff	Fourth collaboration with Ted Kotcheff
1979	Boardwalk	Stephen Verona
1981	Improper Channels	Eric Till	Second collaboration with Eric Till
1981	Tattoo	Bob Brooks
1984	Red Dawn	John Milius
1985	Witness	Peter Weir	First collaboration with Peter Weir
1986	Poltergeist II: The Other Side	Brian Gibson
1986	The Mosquito Coast	Peter Weir	Second collaboration with Peter Weir
1988	Switching Channels	Ted Kotcheff	Ninth collaboration with Ted Kotcheff
1989	Winter People	Ted Kotcheff	Tenth collaboration with Ted Kotcheff
1990	Mountains of the Moon	Bob Rafelson
	The Exorcist III	William Peter Blatty	Uncredited
	The Exorcist III: Legion	William Peter Blatty	Director's cut
1991	Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott
1992	Final Analysis	Phil Joanou
1992	Body of Evidence	Uli Edel
1994	Color of Night	Richard Rush	Uncredited
	The Hudsucker Proxy	Joel Coen
	Trial by Jury	Heywood Gould	Uncredited
	English, August	Dev Benegal	Uncredited
1995	The Scarlet Letter	Roland Joffé
1996	The Island of Dr. Moreau	John Frankenheimer	Uncredited
1996	Feeling Minnesota	Steven Baigelman	Uncredited
1998	The Mask of Zorro	Martin Campbell	First collaboration with Martin Campbell
1999	Inspector Gadget	David Kellogg
2000	Vertical Limit	Martin Campbell	Second collaboration with Martin Campbell
2002	Reign of Fire	Rob Bowman
2005	Flightplan	Robert Schwentke	First collaboration with Robert Schwentke
2006	The Last Time	Michael Caleo
2008	Passengers	Rodrigo García
2009	The Time Traveler's Wife	Robert Schwentke	Second collaboration with Robert Schwentke
2010	Red	Robert Schwentke	Third collaboration with Robert Schwentke
2012	Alex Cross	Rob Cohen
2015	Point Break	Ericson Core
2016	A Family Man	Mark Williams
2018	Rajma Chawal	Leena Yadav
2024	Lumina	Gino J.H. McKoy

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1963	Lancelot and Guinevere	Cornel Wilde	First assistant editor	Uncredited
1963	Girl in the Headlines	Michael Truman	First assistant editor
1964	The Third Secret	Charles Crichton	Assistant editor
1964	Rattle of a Simple Man	Muriel Box
1965	The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders	Terence Young
1966	Arabesque	Stanley Donen		Uncredited
1971	Wake in Fright	Ted Kotcheff	Post-production coordinator	First collaboration with Ted Kotcheff
1979	North Dallas Forty		Editorial consultant	Fifth collaboration with Ted Kotcheff
1983	Uncommon Valor		Editorial consultant	Eighth collaboration with Ted Kotcheff
2005	Soldier of God	W.D. Hogan	Consulting editor
2019	The Wake of Light	Renji Philip	Editor consultant

Actor
Year	Film	Director	Role
1994	The Hudsucker Proxy	Joel Coen	Thorstenson Finlandson

Additional crew
Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1982	Split Image	Ted Kotcheff	Visual consultant	Sixth collaboration with Ted Kotcheff

Second unit director or assistant director
Year	Film	Director	Role
1968	Amsterdam Affair	Gerry O'Hara	Second unit director

Thanks
Year	Film	Director	Role
2019	The Planters	Alexandra Kotcheff Hannah Leder	Special thanks
2020	Fight of Fury	Shuny Bee
2024	Dante's Inferno	Boris Acosta

Visual effects
Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1982	First Blood	Ted Kotcheff	Visual consultant	Seventh collaboration with Ted Kotcheff

References

^ "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
^ "The 64th Academy Awards | 1992". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
^ "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
^ "'The Florida Project' Director Sean Baker to Head Mumbai Film Festival International Jury". The Hollywood Reporter. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2021.

External links

Thom Noble at IMDb

[Oscars1986-1] "The 58th Academy Awards (1986) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 5 June 2019.

[2] "The 64th Academy Awards | 1992". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 30 March 2021.

[3] "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 30 March 2021.

[4] "'The Florida Project' Director Sean Baker to Head Mumbai Film Festival International Jury". The Hollywood Reporter. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2021.

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v t e Academy Award for Best Film Editing
1934–1950	Conrad A. Nervig (1934) Ralph Dawson (1935) Ralph Dawson (1936) Gene Havlick and Gene Milford (1937) Ralph Dawson (1938) Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (1939) Anne Bauchens (1940) William Holmes (1941) Daniel Mandell (1942) George Amy (1943) Barbara McLean (1944) Robert J. Kern (1945) Daniel Mandell (1946) Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish (1947) Paul Weatherwax (1948) Harry W. Gerstad (1949) Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig (1950)
1951–1975	William Hornbeck (1951) Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad (1952) William Lyon (1953) Gene Milford (1954) Charles Nelson and William Lyon (1955) Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax (1956) Peter Taylor (1957) Adrienne Fazan (1958) Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning (1959) Daniel Mandell (1960) Thomas Stanford (1961) Anne V. Coates (1962) Harold F. Kress (1963) Cotton Warburton (1964) William Reynolds (1965) Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo (1966) Hal Ashby (1967) Frank P. Keller (1968) Françoise Bonnot (1969) Hugh S. Fowler (1970) Gerald B. Greenberg (1971) David Bretherton (1972) William Reynolds (1973) Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress (1974) Verna Fields (1975)
1976–2000	Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad (1976) Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (1977) Peter Zinner (1978) Alan Heim (1979) Thelma Schoonmaker (1980) Michael Kahn (1981) John Bloom (1982) Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart (1983) Jim Clark (1984) Thom Noble (1985) Claire Simpson (1986) Gabriella Cristiani (1987) Arthur Schmidt (1988) David Brenner and Joe Hutshing (1989) Neil Travis (1990) Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991) Joel Cox (1992) Michael Kahn (1993) Arthur Schmidt (1994) Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley (1995) Walter Murch (1996) Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris (1997) Michael Kahn (1998) Zach Staenberg (1999) Stephen Mirrione (2000)
2001–present	Pietro Scalia (2001) Martin Walsh (2002) Jamie Selkirk (2003) Thelma Schoonmaker (2004) Hughes Winborne (2005) Thelma Schoonmaker (2006) Christopher Rouse (2007) Chris Dickens (2008) Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2010) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2011) William Goldenberg (2012) Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013) Tom Cross (2014) Margaret Sixel (2015) John Gilbert (2016) Lee Smith (2017) John Ottman (2018) Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019) Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2020) Joe Walker (2021) Paul Rogers (2022) Jennifer Lame (2023)
Best Film Editing became Best Editing in 1999

v t e American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film
Best Edited Feature Film (1961-1998)	Philip W. Anderson (1961) Samuel E. Beetley (1962) Harold F. Kress (1963) Cotton Warburton (1964) William H. Reynolds (1965) William B. Murphy (1966) Michael Luciano (1967) Frank P. Keller (1968) William H. Reynolds (1969) Hugh S. Fowler (1970) Folmar Blangsted (1971) David Bretherton (1972) William H. Reynolds (1973) Michael Luciano (1974) Verna Fields (1975) Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad (1976) William H. Reynolds (1977) Peter Zinner (1978) Alan Heim (1979) Thelma Schoonmaker (1980) Michael Kahn (1981) John Bloom (1982) Tom Rolf (1983) Nena Danevic and Michael A. Chandler (1984) Thom Noble (1985) Claire Simpson (1986) Gabriella Cristiani (1987) Gerry Hambling / Stu Linder (1988) Steven Rosenblum (1989) Neil Travis (1990) Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991) Joel Cox (1992) Michael Kahn (1993) Arthur Schmidt (1994) Steven Rosenblum (1995) Walter Murch (1996) Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron and Richard A. Harris (1997) Michael Kahn (1998)
Comedy or Musical (1999-present)	Eric Zumbrunnen (1999) Joe Hutshing and Saar Klein (2000) Jill Bilcock (2001) Martin Walsh (2002) Stephen E. Rivkin, Arthur Schmidt and Craig Wood (2003) Paul Hirsch (2004) Michael McCusker (2005) Virginia Katz (2006) Chris Lebenzon (2007) Stephen Schaffer (2008) Debra Neil-Fisher (2009) Chris Lebenzon (2010) Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers (2012) Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers (2013) Barney Pilling (2014) Hank Corwin (2015) Tom Cross (2016) Tatiana S. Riegel (2017) Yorgos Mavropsaridis (2018) Tom Eagles (2019) Matthew Friedman and Andrew Dickler (2020) Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum (2021) Paul Rogers (2022) Kevin Tent (2023)
Dramatic (1999-present)	Zach Staenberg (1999) Pietro Scalia (2000) Pietro Scalia (2001) Thelma Schoonmaker (2002) Jamie Selkirk (2003) Thelma Schoonmaker (2004) Hughes Winborne (2005) Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione / Thelma Schoonmaker (2006) Christopher Rouse (2007) Chris Dickens (2008) Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009) Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall (2010) Kevin Tent (2011) William Goldenberg (2012) Christopher Rouse (2013) Sandra Adair (2014) Margaret Sixel (2015) Joe Walker (2016) Lee Smith (2017) John Ottman (2018) Yang Jin-mo (2019) Alan Baumgarten (2020) Pamela Martin (2021) Eddie Hamilton (2022) Jennifer Lame (2023)

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