Conrad Buff IV
Conrad Buff IV | |
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Born | Film editor | July 8, 1948
Years active | 1969 – present |
Conrad Buff IV (born July 8, 1948) is an
Life and career
Buff was born in Los Angeles, the son of architect
Buff is noted particularly for his editing of four films directed by James Cameron, including Titanic. Buff edited The Abyss (1989) with Joel Goodman. Buff was nominated for an Oscar and an Eddie for the editing of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991 - with Mark Goldblatt and Richard A. Harris). He was again nominated for an Eddie for True Lies (1994) (also with Goldblatt and Harris). In addition to its actual awards, Titanic was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing.
Buff has edited four films with director Roger Donaldson: The Getaway (1994), Species (1995), Dante's Peak (1997; co-edited with Tina Hirsch and Howard Smith), and Thirteen Days (2000), which won the Satellite Award for Best Editing.
Since Thirteen Days, Buff has edited eight films directed by Antoine Fuqua: Training Day (2001), Tears of the Sun (2003), King Arthur (2004; with Jamie Pearson), Shooter (2007; with Eric Sears), The Equalizer 2 (2018), Infinite (2021), Emancipation (2022), and The Equalizer 3 (2023).
Buff has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.[4]
Filmography
Filmography based on the Internet Movie Database.[5]
References
- ^ "Conrad Buff IV – Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^ Iovenko, Chris (2007). "Buff’s house, still shining", Los Angeles Times, December 13, 2007. Online version retrieved 2008-06-29.
- ^ Spark, Nick (September–October 1998). "From Navy Documentaries to Titanic". Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter. 19 (5). Archived from the original on 2009-01-07.
- ^ Archived 2008-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.
- IMDb
Further reading
- Tahmizyan, Arman (July–August 2010). "Conrad Buff: The Editor as Manipulator". Editors Guild Magazine. 31 (4). Archived from the original on 2014-04-07.
Editing is not a subtractive process; it's an additive process. We're basically cutting in the good parts. We're saying that we like this, this and this––now how do we marry those elements and make it moving, scary, dramatic, emotional, affecting?
Mainly an interview with Buff, this article also provides a short biography and a filmography.
External links
- Conrad Buff IV at IMDb
- Conrad Buff at Library of Congress, with 2 library catalog records