Mark Goldblatt

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Mark Goldblatt
Occupation(s)Film editor, director

Mark Goldblatt is an Academy Award-nominated American film editor and film director and president emeritus of the American Cinema Editors.

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Brooklyn born Goldblatt studied at the University of Wisconsin and London Film School, where his instructors included Mike Leigh, Clive Donner and Frank Clarke. Upon his return to the United States, Goldblatt observed Alfred Hitchcock on the set of one of his final films, Family Plot, and became a PA at Roger Corman's New World Pictures, where he worked with up-and-coming filmmakers including Joe Dante and Ron Howard. Corman's then-assistant, Gale Ann Hurd, connected Goldblatt with James Cameron, which led to their collaboration on mainstream hits including The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (for which Goldblatt received an Oscar nomination), and True Lies . Lies led to collaborations with Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay ( Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Bad Company, Bad Boys II ) and Paul Verhoeven ( Showgirls, Hollow Man and Starship Troopers). Goldblatt's additional credits include Rambo: First Blood Part II, Commando, Predator 2, X-Men: The Last Stand, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Chappie , and Death Wish . He also directed The Punisher and Dead Heat. [1] [2]

Goldblatt describes the best part of being an editor as, "Being able to create something out of a given set of filmed material that seems to be greater than the sum of its parts. By this I mean subtext and grace and counterpoint of characters (and performances) that comes out of a dialectical montage." [3]

He is a member and former vice president and president of the American Cinema Editors (or ACE Society) as well as a long-standing Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2018, Goldblatt became an ACE Career Achievement Awards honoree. [4] [5]

He is the father of actor, director, and editor Max Goldblatt.

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorNotes
1976 Eat My Dust! Charles B. Griffith Production assistant
Hollywood Boulevard Joe Dante
Allan Arkush
1977 Grand Theft Auto Ron Howard Associate editor
1978 Piranha Joe Dante Saturn Award for Best Editing
1979 Spirit of the Wind Ralph Liddle
1980 Humanoids from the Deep Barbara Peeters
1981 Enter the Ninja Menahem Golan
The Howling Joe Dante
Halloween II Rick Rosenthal
John Carpenter
1983 Get Crazy Allan Arkush Supervising editor
Wavelength Mike Gray
1984 Over the Brooklyn Bridge Menahem Golan
The Ambassador J. Lee Thompson
The Terminator James Cameron Editor
1985 Commando Mark L. Lester
Rambo: First Blood Part II George P. Cosmatos
1986 Jumpin' Jack Flash Penny Marshall
1987 Innerspace Joe Dante Additional editor
RoboCop Paul Verhoeven Second unit director
1988 Dead Heat Mark GoldblattDirector only
1989 The Punisher
1990 Nightbreed Clive Barker
Predator 2 Stephen Hopkins
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day James Cameron Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Nominated—ACE Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
The Last Boy Scout Tony Scott
1992 Universal Soldier Roland Emmerich Editorial consultant
1993 Super Mario Bros. Rocky Morton
Annabel Jankel
Tombstone George P. Cosmatos Additional editor
Kevin Jarre
1994 True Lies James Cameron Nominated—ACE Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
1995 Showgirls Paul Verhoeven
1996 The Rock Michael Bay Additional editor
1997 Starship Troopers Paul Verhoeven
1998 Armageddon Michael Bay
1999 Detroit Rock City Adam Rifkin
2000 Hollow Man Paul Verhoeven
2001 Pearl Harbor Michael Bay
2002 Bad Company Joel Schumacher
2003 Bad Boys II Michael Bay
2004 Exorcist: The Beginning Renny Harlin
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing Wendy AppleSelf appearance only
2005 XXX: State of the Union Lee Tamahori
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand Brett Ratner Satellite Award for Best Editing
2009 Case 39 Christian Alvart
G-Force Hoyt Yeatman
Calvin Marshall Gary LundgrenEditorial consultant
2010 The Wolfman Joe Johnston Uncredited
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse David Slade Additional editor
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Rupert Wyatt
2013 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Thor Freudenthal
2015 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Mike Mitchell Additional editor
Chappie Neill Blomkamp
2016 The Huntsman: Winter's War Cedric Nicolas-Troyan Additional editor
2018 Death Wish Eli Roth

Awards and nominations

Goldblatt is an Academy Award nominee for his work on Terminator 2: Judgment Day , a winner of Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films' Saturn Award for Piranha (1978) and a Satellite Award for X-Men: The Last Stand, and was twice nominated for ACE's Eddie Award for his work on Terminator 2: Judgment Day and True Lies .

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