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| Born | (1969-02-17)February 17, 1969 (age 56) Santa Clara County, California, United States |
| Education | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Occupation | Film editor |
Stephen Mirrione (born February 17, 1969) is an Americanfilm editor. He is best known for winning anAcademy Award for his editing of the filmTraffic (2000).
Mirrione was born inSanta Clara County, California. He attendedBellarmine College Preparatory and then theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, from which he received his bachelor's degree in 1991.[1] He moved to Los Angeles, and began a collaboration withDoug Liman, who was then a graduate student at theUniversity of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Mirrione edited Liman's first feature filmsGetting In (1994),Swingers (1996), andGo (1999), which was an homage toAkira Kurosawa's 1950 filmRashomon.[2]
Mirrione has had anotable collaboration with directorSteven Soderbergh. The two met when Soderbergh attended the opening ofGo. About one year later, he asked Mirrione to editTraffic (2000),[2] which earned Mirrione anOscar. Todd McCarthy characterized the effects of the camerawork and editing: "Soderbergh has given the film tremendous texture as well as a vibrant immediacy through constant handheld operating, mostly using available light, and manipulating the look both in shooting and in the lab. Stephen Mirrione's editing, which givesTraffic a beautifully modulated overall shape, is characterized on a moment-to-moment basis by jump cuts and jagged rhythms. Overall result is far too stylized to call the approach verite, but pic looks far more caught-on-the-run, and therefore far less staged, than all but a few other American films."[3]
Mirrione subsequently edited all three of theOcean's films directed by Soderbergh and starringGeorge Clooney (Ocean's Eleven (2001),Ocean's Twelve (2004), andOcean's Thirteen (2007)), as well asThe Informant! (2009) andContagion (2011).
Mirrione won anAmerican Cinema Editors "Eddie" Award in 2006 for his editing ofAlejandro González Iñárritu's filmBabel, for which he was also nominated for anAcademy Award. He has been nominated four times forBAFTA Awards for editingTraffic,21 Grams (also directed by Inarritu – 2003),Good Night, and Good Luck (directed byGeorge Clooney-2005), and forBabel.
Mirrione has been selected for membership in theAmerican Cinema Editors.[4]
see:Academy Award for Best Film Editing
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