Alan Heim | |
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Born | |
Other names | Allan Heim |
Occupation | Film editor |
Years active | 1963-present |
Alan Heim, ACE (born May 31, 1936) is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award for editing All That Jazz .
Heim was born in the Bronx, New York.
He has more than thirty feature-film credits to his name, and has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Heim has also served as President of the ACE organization and as President of the Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG), the IATSE union that represents film editors, sound mixers and post-production craftspeople. [1] [2]
Heim had an extended collaboration with director Bob Fosse. For his work on All That Jazz (1979), Heim received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. All That Jazz is the fourth best-edited film of all time on a 2012 list compiled by the Motion Picture Editors Guild, and Edward Ländler wrote a summary of the editing for that listing. [3]
Editor
Year | Film | Director | Notes |
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1968 | The Sea Gull | Sidney Lumet | Fourth collaboration with Sidney Lumet |
1970 | Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | Fifth collaboration with Sidney Lumet | |
The Twelve Chairs | Mel Brooks | Second collaboration with Mel Brooks | |
1971 | Doc | Frank Perry | |
1973 | Godspell | David Greene | |
1974 | Lenny | Bob Fosse | First collaboration with Bob Fosse |
1976 | Network | Sidney Lumet | Sixth collaboration with Sidney Lumet |
1979 | Hair | Miloš Forman | First collaboration with Miloš Forman |
All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | Second collaboration with Bob Fosse | |
1981 | The Fan | Edward Bianchi | |
So Fine | Andrew Bergman | ||
1983 | Star 80 | Bob Fosse | Third collaboration with Bob Fosse |
1985 | Goodbye, New York | Amos Kollek | |
Beer | Patrick Kelly | ||
1988 | She's Having a Baby | John Hughes | |
Funny Farm | George Roy Hill | ||
1989 | Valmont | Miloš Forman | Second collaboration with Miloš Forman |
1990 | Quick Change | ||
1991 | Billy Bathgate | Robert Benton | |
1993 | Dennis the Menace | Nick Castle | |
1995 | Copycat | Jon Amiel | |
1997 | Leave It to Beaver | Andy Cadiff | |
1998 | American History X | Tony Kaye | |
2000 | Bless the Child | Chuck Russell | |
2002 | The Adventures of Pluto Nash | Ron Underwood | |
2003 | Carolina | Marleen Gorris | |
2004 | The Notebook | Nick Cassavetes | First collaboration with Nick Cassavetes |
2006 | Alpha Dog | Second collaboration with Nick Cassavetes | |
2007 | The Last Mimzy | Robert Shaye | |
2009 | My Sister's Keeper | Nick Cassavetes | Third collaboration with Nick Cassavetes |
2010 | Janie Jones | David M. Rosenthal | |
2012 | Bless Me, Ultima | Carl Franklin | |
2013 | Gods Behaving Badly | Marc Turtletaub | |
2014 | The Other Woman | Nick Cassavetes | Fourth collaboration with Nick Cassavetes |
2015 | I Saw the Light | Marc Abraham |
Sound department
Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
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1964 | The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | Sound editor | First collaboration with Sidney Lumet |
1966 | The Group | Second collaboration with Sidney Lumet | ||
The Fat Spy | Joseph Cates | Sound effects editor | ||
1967 | The Producers | Mel Brooks | Sound editor | First collaboration with Mel Brooks |
1968 | Bye Bye Braverman | Sidney Lumet | Third collaboration with Sidney Lumet | |
Rachel, Rachel | Paul Newman |
Music department
Year | Film | Director | Role |
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1966 | The Fat Spy | Joseph Cates | Music editor |
Editorial department
Year | Film | Director | Role |
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1989 | Bloodhounds of Broadway | Howard Brookner | Editorial consultant |
1996 | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Barbra Streisand | Additional editor |
2004 | The Alamo | John Lee Hancock | Additional film editor |
2008 | Forever Plaid: The Movie | Stuart Ross | Supervising editor |
Actor
Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
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1979 | All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | Eddie | |
2013 | Return to Babylon | Alex Monty Canawati | Landlord | Scenes deleted |
Thanks
Year | Film | Director | Role |
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2009 | The Red Machine |
| Special thanks |
Editor
Year | Film | Director |
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1975 | The Silence | Joseph Hardy |
1986 | Nobody's Child | Lee Grant |
1999 | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Martha Coolidge |
2008 | Skip Tracer | Stephen Frears |
2009 | Grey Gardens | Michael Sucsy |
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