Tim Squyres

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Tim Squyres
Born (1959-03-29) 29 March 1959 (age 66)
Wenonah, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationFilm editor

Timothy S. Squyres is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. Squyres has had an extended collaboration with the Taiwanese director Ang Lee. His latest collaboration with Jonathan Demme on the film A Master Builder opened in New York during June 2014 and was based on the 19th century play by Henrik Ibsen.

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Life and career

Squyres was born in Wenonah, New Jersey. He is the brother of Steve Squyres, a retired professor of astronomy at Cornell University and Chief Scientist at Blue Origin. Both brothers attended Cornell after attending Gateway Regional High School in New Jersey. [1]

Squyres has edited all of Ang Lee's films except for Brokeback Mountain , [2] including The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Ride with the Devil (1999), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), The Hire: Chosen (2001), Hulk (2003), Lust, Caution (2007), Taking Woodstock (2009), Life of Pi (2012), and Gemini Man (2019). Squyres served as editor of Angelina Jolie's adaptation of Unbroken , released on December 25, 2014.

Squyres' work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award, among other awards. His work on Gosford Park (directed by Robert Altman – 2001) was also nominated for an Eddie. [3] In 2012, he was also nominated for the Academy Award for Life of Pi .

Squyres has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. [4]

Squyres is a resident of Maplewood, New Jersey. [1]

Filmography

YearTitleNotes
1991Blowback
Trump: What's the Deal?
Pushing Hands
1993 The Wedding Banquet
1994 Eat Drink Man Woman
Scenes from the New World
1995 ABC Weekend Special 1 episode
Sense and Sensibility
1997 The Ice Storm
Remember WENN 1 episode
1998Moyers on Addiction: Close to HomeMiniseries
Lulu on the Bridge
1999 Ride with the Devil
Now and Again 1 episode
2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001ChosenShort film
Gosford Park
2003 Hulk
2004 Going Upriver
2005 Medium
Syriana
2007 The Inner Life of Martin Frost
Lust, Caution
2008 Rachel Getting Married
2009 Taking Woodstock
Nurse Jackie 1 episode
2010 The Wonderful Maladys Television film
2012 Life of Pi
2013 The Armstrong Lie
A Master Builder
2014 Winter's Tale
Unbroken
2016 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2019 The Red Sea Diving Resort
Gemini Man
2021This Body is So Impermanent
2022 Deep Water
The MissionShort film
2026 Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice Post-production

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References

  1. 1 2 Shyrock, Bob. "South Jersey native nominated for Oscar for 'Life of Pi'", South Jersey Times , January 12, 2013. Accessed October 24, 2015. "Former Wenonah resident Tim Squyres, who has edited 11 of director Ang Lee’s 12 films, has been nominated for an Oscar for his work on Lee’s acclaimed fantasy adventure Life of Pi.... Nominated for an Oscar previously for editing Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Squyres is a graduate of Gateway Regional High School and Cornell University whose parents reside in Wenonah. The father of two, Squyres now lives in Maplewood in Essex County."
  2. ↑ Marchant, Beth (August 28, 2009). "Taking Woodstock, Cut by Cut: Tim Squyres and Mike Fay talk about editing Ang Lee's latest film". Studio Monthly. Squyres was unavailable for Brokeback Mountain due to a scheduling conflict with editing Syriana .
  3. ↑ "Tim Squyres – Awards". imdb.com.
  4. ↑ "American Cinema Editors – Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.


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