Leslie Jones (film editor)

Leslie Jones is an American film editor.

Biography[]

Jones is the daughter of film editor Robert C. Jones and the granddaughter of editor Harmon Jones,^[1] each of whom has been nominated for an Academy Award for editing. Jones was the assistant editor for her father on two films, See No Evil, Hear No Evil and The Babe. She has several editing credits for independent films and documentaries, and was the associate editor on Grumpier Old Men. Her first editing credit on a major studio film was for Murder at 1600, which she co-edited with Billy Weber. Jones, Weber and Saar Klein were widely recognized for the film The Thin Red Line. They were nominated for an Academy Award, an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award and a Satellite Award. Jones has also collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson on several films. She was nominated for an Eddie Award.

Filmography[]

• Ballad of Tina Juarez
• Angel Fire
• Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
• Murder at 1600 (1997)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• Woman on Top (2000)
• CQ (2001)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
• Starsky & Hutch (2004)
• School for Scoundrels (2006)
• The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
• Little Fockers (2010)
• The Master (2012)
• In Secret (2013)
• Inherent Vice (2014)
• 20th Century Women (2016)
• Rules Don't Apply (2016)

References[]

Further reading[]

• Torgerson, Liv (May–June 1999). "Conversations with Billy Weber and Leslie Jones". Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter. 20 (3). Archived from the original on 2006-03-23.
• Wallis, C. J. (February 18, 2013). "Interview: Making 'The Master' with Editor Leslie Jones". Cigarettes and Red Vines. Retrieved 2018-12-19.

External links[]

• Leslie Jones at IMDb

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