Kevin Stitt (film editor)

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Kevin Stitt
OccupationFilm editor
Years active1984-present

Kevin Stitt is an American film editor with more than 35 credits to his name. [1] [2] Stitt was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Editing in 2016 for his work on Jurassic World . He was also nominated for the American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Documentary in 2009 for Michael Jackson's This Is It along with three other editors.

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Filmography

Editing

YearTitleNotes
1984 Romancing the Stone Assistant editor
1986 Short Circuit Assistant film editor
1986 Big Trouble Assistant film editor
1987 Harry and the Hendersons Associate editor
1989 Gleaming the Cube Associate editor
1989 Lethal Weapon 2 Assistant film editor
1990 Die Hard 2 First assistant editor
1991 New Jack City Additional editor/first assistant film editor
1991 The Last Boy Scout Assistant film editor
1993 Point of No Return Assistant editor
1993 Another Stakeout Additional film editor
1994 Maverick Assistant film editor
1995 Nick of Time
1996 Executive Decision
1997 Breakdown
1997 Robinson Crusoe
1997 Conspiracy Theory
1998 Lethal Weapon 4
1999 Payback
1999 Deep Blue Sea Additional editor
2000 X-Men
2001 A Knight's Tale
2001 The Last Castle
2003 The Order
2003 Paycheck
2005 Elektra
2006 Payback: Straight Up Direct-to-video
2006 Apocalypto Assistant film editor
2007 The Kingdom
2008 Cloverfield
2009 Surrogates
2009 This Is It Documentary
2012 Man on a Ledge
2012 Jack Reacher
2013 42
2015 Blackhat Additional editor
2015 Jurassic World
2017 The Book of Henry

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References

  1. Kevin Stitt at IMDb
  2. "Kevin Stitt". Mubi . Retrieved November 18, 2022.