Person Details

Birthday: 1960-06-10 18:43:57

Aliases: Ли Смит

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Movie Involvements: 45

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

Biography

Lee Smith was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004) and The Dark Knight (2008). He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for The Dark Knight and for Inception (2010). He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound for The Piano (1993). He began his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993) (for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and Holy Smoke! (1999). Smith was also editing films during this interval; he was one of the editors for RoboCop 2 (1990). He began his notable collaboration with director Peter Weir on the 1982 film The Year of Living Dangerously, on which he was an associate editor working with Weir's longtime editor William M. Anderson. He was credited as a co-editor with Anderson for Fearless (1993) and for The Truman Show (1998). He was the sole editor for Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), for which Smith was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and for an "Eddie Award" from the American Cinema Editors. More recently, Smith has edited seven films with director Christopher Nolan. He was nominated for a second Academy Award and American Cinema Editors Award for The Dark Knight (2008). In 2010, he received another nomination for the American Cinema Editors Award for his editing work on Inception; Inception was listed as the 35th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. In 2018, he received an Academy Award for his work on Nolan's Dunkirk.

Most Famous Work

Interstellar
Average
8

Interstellar

(2014) Editor
The Dark Knight
Average
9

The Dark Knight

(2008) Editor
Inception
Average
8

Inception

(2010) Editor
The Dark Knight Rises
Average
8

The Dark Knight Rises

(2012) Editor
Batman Begins
Average
8

Batman Begins

(2005) Editor
The Truman Show
Average
8

The Truman Show

(1998) Editor
1917
Average
8

1917

(2019) Editor
The Prestige
Average
8

The Prestige

(2006) Editor

Acting

Editing

Sound

Year Role Movie/Tv
2001 Sound Designer
1999 Sound Designer
1994 Sound Designer
1993 Sound Designer
1989 Sound Designer
Sound Designer
1987 Sound Editor
1980 Additional Sound Re-Recordist
Year Role Movie/Tv

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