Dody Dorn

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Dody Dorn
Born
Dody Jane Dorn

(1955-04-20) April 20, 1955 (age 68)
Occupation(s)Film and sound editor
Awards Golden Reel (1989)

Dody Jane Dorn (born April 20, 1955) is an American film and sound editor. She is best known for working with director Christopher Nolan on several films including Memento (2000), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. [1]

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Dorn has worked multiple times with director Ridley Scott as well as having edited SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist , a documentary film which chronicles the life of a sadomasochistic man who struggles with cystic fibrosis.

Life and career

Dorn was born into a film industry family, her father having worked as a set designer and film producer. [2] Dorn attended Hollywood High School and it was there that she decided to pursue a career as a math teacher. [3] A fateful job working behind the scenes at a movie sound stage led her towards working in the film industry. Dorn appeared in two films as an actress (including a nude "Archbishop" in the 1976 satire TunnelVision ) before moving behind the camera. She worked her way up the food chain (working as a production assistant, script supervisor, assistant location manager, and several other freelance jobs) eventually attaining the position of assistant film editor which she held until 1982. [2] [3] Finding it unusually difficult to move up to picture editing, Dorn made a lateral move to sound editing. Her work as a sound editor on James Cameron's The Abyss (1989) won the Golden Reel Award and was nominated for a best sound Academy Award. [2] [3]

In 1986, she started her own sound company, Sonic Kitchen, but with time, got more and more disenchanted and distracted with the daily business grind. Dorn had begun to lose interest and was compelled to get back to her passion—feature film picture editing. [2] It was the editing of the documentary cult film SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist and Memento which brought Dody Dorn's picture editing to the attention of the rest of the world. She has since continued to work with director Christopher Nolan on several films and has repeatedly worked with noted film director, Ridley Scott. In addition to her credited editing on Scott's films, Dorn worked on the 2003 DVD releases of Alien (the "Director's Cut"). [4] Dorn was selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors. [5]

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Selected filmography

As film editor

YearFilmDirectorOther notes
1994 Floundering Peter McCarthy
1996 A Small Domain Britta Sjogren Short
1997 SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist Kirby Dick
1998 I Woke Up Early the Day I Died Aris Illiopulos
1999 Guinevere (film) Audrey Wells
Sleeping Beauties Jamie Babbit Short
2000 Memento Christopher Nolan Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Nominated—ACE Eddie
2001 Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows Robert AckermanTV release. Nominated - Emmy, ACE
2002 Insomnia Christopher Nolan
2003 Matchstick Men Ridley Scott
2005 Kingdom of Heaven Extended commentary by Dorn on Director's Cut DVD
2006 A Good Year
2007 Year of the Dog Mike White
2008 Australia Baz Luhrmann Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Editing
2010 I'm Still Here Casey Affleck
London Boulevard William Monahan
2011 End of Watch David Ayer
2014 Sabotage
Fury
2016 Ben-Hur Timur Bekmambetov
2017 Power Rangers Dean Israelite
2020 Come Away Brenda Chapman
2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League Zack Snyder Additional editor
Army of the Dead
2023 Rebel Moon
2024 Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver Post-production

As sound editor / assistant sound editor

Accolades

In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild listed Memento as the fourteenth best-edited film of all time based on a survey of its membership. [6]

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References

  1. Nesselson, Lisa (2000). "Reviews: Memento", Variety September 14, 2000.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Wood, Jennifer M. (2004). Archived February 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , MovieMaker Magazine February 3, 2007. Webpage archived at WebCite from this original URL on March 6, 2008.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kaufman, Debra (2004). "A Memento from Dody Dorn", Studio Daily July 1, 2004. Webpage archived at WebCite from this original URL on March 6, 2008.
  4. Hunt, Bill and Dugan, Todd (2003). The Digital Bits Insider's Guide to DVD (McGraw-Hill Professional), p. 118.
  5. "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on March 4, 2008.
  6. "The 75 Best Edited Films". Editors Guild Magazine. 1 (3). May 2012. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015.