Martin Walsh (film editor)

Martin Walsh
Born	(1955-11-08) 8 November 1955 (age 69) Manchester, England, UK
Occupation	Film editor

Martin Walsh (born 8 November 1955 in Manchester, England) is an English film editor with more than 30 film credits dating from 1984. ^[1] Walsh won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the ACE Eddie Award for the film Chicago (2002), for which he was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing. Walsh has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. ^[2]

Selected filmography

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes	Ref.
1984	Sacred Hearts	Barbara Rennie
1989	Courage Mountain	Christopher Leitch
	The Wolves of Willoughby Chase	Stuart Orme	First collaboration with Stuart Orme
1990	The Krays	Peter Medak
1991	Hear My Song	Peter Chelsom	First collaboration with Peter Chelsom
1992	Wild West	David Attwood
1993	Bad Behaviour	Les Blair
1994	Backbeat	Iain Softley	First collaboration with Iain Softley
1995	Funny Bones	Peter Chelsom	Second collaboration with Peter Chelsom
	Hackers	Iain Softley	Second collaboration with Iain Softley
1996	Feeling Minnesota	Steven Baigelman
1997	Roseanna's Grave	Paul Weiland
	Welcome to Woop Woop	Stephan Elliott
1998	The Mighty	Peter Chelsom	Third collaboration with Peter Chelsom
	Hilary and Jackie	Anand Tucker	Second collaboration with Anand Tucker
1999	Mansfield Park	Patricia Rozema
	Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?	Peter Hewitt
2001	Bridget Jones's Diary	Sharon Maguire
	Strictly Sinatra	Peter Capaldi
	Iris	Richard Eyre
2002	Chicago	Rob Marshall
2004	Thunderbirds	Jonathan Frakes
2005	Separate Lies	Julian Fellowes
	V for Vendetta	James McTeigue
2007	Blood & Chocolate	Katja von Garnier
2008	Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging	Gurinder Chadha
	Inkheart	Iain Softley	Third collaboration with Iain Softley
2010	Clash of the Titans	Louis Leterrier
	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	Mike Newell
2011	Ra.One	Anubhav Sinha		[3]
2012	Wrath of the Titans	Jonathan Liebesman
2014	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit	Kenneth Branagh	First collaboration with Kenneth Branagh
2015	Cinderella		Second collaboration with Kenneth Branagh
	Eddie the Eagle	Dexter Fletcher
2017	Wonder Woman	Patty Jenkins
	Justice League	Zack Snyder
2021	Silent Night	Camille Griffin
2023	Tetris	Jon S. Baird
2024	Back to Black	Sam Taylor-Johnson
TBA	In the Grey	Guy Ritchie

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role
2005	Bee Season	Scott McGehee David Siegel	Additional editor

Thanks

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1996	Saint-Ex	Anand Tucker	Special thanks	First collaboration with Anand Tucker
2015	Tear Me Apart	Alex Lightman	Thanks

Short documentaries

Sound department

Year	Film	Director	Role
1977	Grow with Skelmersdale	John M. Gresty	Sound

TV documentaries

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1994	Land of Dreams - Randy Newman's America	Leslie Woodhead

TV movies

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1989	The Fifteen Streets	David Wheatley
1993	Don't Leave Me This Way	Stuart Orme	Second collaboration with Stuart Orme
	Dancing Queen	Nick Hamm

TV series

Editor

Year	Title	Notes
1984	Africa
1986	Oil
1988	The Fear	5 episodes
2012	Titanic: Blood and Steel	2 episodes

References

1. Martin Walsh at IMDb
2. "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.
3. Walsh is listed as an editor at the film's webpage; see "Ra.One Official Website". Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012. His listing at Imdb is as an editor with the editing department, which may be erroneous.

Further reading

• Walsh, Martin (3 February 2007). "Things I've Learned as a Moviemaker". Moviemaker. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012.
• Wood, Jennifer M. (3 February 2007). "The Showoffs Get the Attention: Hard work paid off for Chicago editor Martin Walsh, who just nabbed his first Oscar nomination". Moviemaker. Archived from the original on 16 April 2012.
• Van den Broeck, Wim (30 April 2015). "'Cinderella' Editor Martin Walsh Points Out the Importance of Seeing the Bigger Picture". Avid Technology. Archived from the original on 4 May 2015. This 2015 article is based on an interview with Walsh about his career as an editor and the film Cinderella.