Paul Weatherwax
American film editor (1900–1960)
Paul John Weatherwax (July 8, 1900[1][2] – September 13, 1960[3]) was an American film editor, and two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Biography
Weatherwax was born in Sturgis, Michigan, began his editing career in silent films in 1928, and over his career edited about 85 films. His final credit, 1961's A Raisin in the Sun, was selected for preservation in the United States of America National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 2005.
He also assisted, although uncredited, on the direction of Star Spangled Rhythm in 1945 and Vendetta in 1950.
Partial filmography
Weatherwax's films include:
- Oh, Kay! (1928)
- Rough Romance (1930)
- Lady Godiva of Coventry (1930)
- Body and Soul (1931)
- Surrender (1931)
- While Paris Sleeps (1932)
- Long Lost Father (1934)
- The World Moves On (1934)
- True Confession (1937)
- You And Me (1938)
- Rulers of the Sea (1939)
- The Howards of Virginia (1940)
- Birth of the Blues (1941)
- The Forest Rangers (1942)
- The Fleet's In (1942)
- Let's Face It (1943)
- Star Spangled Rhythm (1945)
- Fun on a Weekend (1947)
- The Saxon Charm (1948)
- The Naked City (1948) - Academy Award for Best Film Editing
- Vendetta (1950)
- Behave Yourself! (1951)
- It Came from Outer Space (1953)
- Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)
- Never Say Goodbye (1956)
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956) - Academy Award for Best Film Editing, shared with Gene Ruggiero
- The Big Fisherman (1959)
References
- ^ "Michigan Births, 1867-1902," database with images, FamilySearch (4 December 2014), Paul Weatherwax, 08 Jul 1900; citing item 2 p 154 rn 36, Sturgis, St Joseph, Michigan, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 2,363,031.
- ^ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (12 December 2014), Paul John Weatherwax, 1917-1918; citing Indianapolis City no 2, Indiana, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,504,016.
- ^ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (26 November 2014), Paul J Weatherwax, 13 Sep 1960; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
External links
- Paul Weatherwax at IMDb
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- Conrad A. Nervig (1934)
- Ralph Dawson (1935)
- Ralph Dawson (1936)
- Gene Havlick and Gene Milford (1937)
- Ralph Dawson (1938)
- Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (1939)
- Anne Bauchens (1940)
- William Holmes (1941)
- Daniel Mandell (1942)
- George Amy (1943)
- Barbara McLean (1944)
- Robert J. Kern (1945)
- Daniel Mandell (1946)
- Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish (1947)
- Paul Weatherwax (1948)
- Harry W. Gerstad (1949)
- Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig (1950)
- William Hornbeck (1951)
- Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad (1952)
- William Lyon (1953)
- Gene Milford (1954)
- Charles Nelson and William Lyon (1955)
- Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax (1956)
- Peter Taylor (1957)
- Adrienne Fazan (1958)
- Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning (1959)
- Daniel Mandell (1960)
- Thomas Stanford (1961)
- Anne V. Coates (1962)
- Harold F. Kress (1963)
- Cotton Warburton (1964)
- William Reynolds (1965)
- Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo (1966)
- Hal Ashby (1967)
- Frank P. Keller (1968)
- Françoise Bonnot (1969)
- Hugh S. Fowler (1970)
- Gerald B. Greenberg (1971)
- David Bretherton (1972)
- William Reynolds (1973)
- Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress (1974)
- Verna Fields (1975)
- Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad (1976)
- Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (1977)
- Peter Zinner (1978)
- Alan Heim (1979)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (1980)
- Michael Kahn (1981)
- John Bloom (1982)
- Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart (1983)
- Jim Clark (1984)
- Thom Noble (1985)
- Claire Simpson (1986)
- Gabriella Cristiani (1987)
- Arthur Schmidt (1988)
- David Brenner and Joe Hutshing (1989)
- Neil Travis (1990)
- Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991)
- Joel Cox (1992)
- Michael Kahn (1993)
- Arthur Schmidt (1994)
- Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley (1995)
- Walter Murch (1996)
- Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris (1997)
- Michael Kahn (1998)
- Zach Staenberg (1999)
- Stephen Mirrione (2000)
- Pietro Scalia (2001)
- Martin Walsh (2002)
- Jamie Selkirk (2003)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (2004)
- Hughes Winborne (2005)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (2006)
- Christopher Rouse (2007)
- Chris Dickens (2008)
- Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009)
- Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2010)
- Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2011)
- William Goldenberg (2012)
- Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013)
- Tom Cross (2014)
- Margaret Sixel (2015)
- John Gilbert (2016)
- Lee Smith (2017)
- John Ottman (2018)
- Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019)
- Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2020)
- Joe Walker (2021)
- Paul Rogers (2022)
- Jennifer Lame (2023)
- Best Film Editing became Best Editing in 1999