Gerry Hambling | |
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| Born | Gerald Hambling (1926-06-14)June 14, 1926 |
| Died | February 5, 2013(2013-02-05) (aged 86) Cambridge,Cambridgeshire, England |
| Occupation | Film editor |
| Awards | Best Editing 1991The Commitments Best Editing 1989Mississippi Burning Best Editing 1978Midnight Express |
Gerry Hambling (June 14, 1926 – February 5, 2013) was a Britishfilm editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he had also worked as a sound editor and a television editor. Hambling has received six nominations for theBAFTA Award for Best Editing and has won a record three times forMidnight Express (1978),Mississippi Burning (1988), andThe Commitments (1991).
In 1976, Hambling began anotable collaboration with the directorAlan Parker that extended over nearly all of Parker's films. The three BAFTA awards noted above were all for films directed by Parker. Chris Routledge has described their collaboration as follows:[1][2]
The collaboration with Parker has ranged widely, from the musicalBugsy Malone, through the partly animatedPink Floyd The Wall, to the grimAngel Heart and the strange story ofThe Road to Welville. They have been particularly successful with musicals, Hambling's talent for creating the illusion of movement proving useful where musical performances appear in films such asThe Commitments, which Lawrence O'Toole called "a great swim for the eyeballs." Perhaps because of their experience in advertising, Parker's slick and striking images combine well with Hambling's intuitive sense of pace and rhythm, for example in the otherwise problematicFame, and in the much trailed, but poorly receivedEvita.
In addition to the three BAFTA Awards, Hambling had been nominated for the BAFTA award for three additional films (Fame,Another Country, andEvita). Six films edited by Hambling were nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Film Editing (Midnight Express,Fame,Mississippi Burning,The Commitments,In the Name of the Father, andEvita). Hambling had been elected to membership in theAmerican Cinema Editors.[3]Mississippi Burning won the ACE Eddie Award, and in 1998, Hambling was honored with theAmerican Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award.
According to Alan Parker, by the time Hambling retired in 2003 he was one of just two editors still cutting film manually using aMoviola machine; the other beingMichael Kahn, Steven Spielberg's editor.[4] He died in 2013 at the age of 86.[4]
The director of each film is indicated in parentheses.
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