Mark Sanger

British film editor (born 1974)

Mark Sanger

Born|  (1974-01-13) 13 January 1974 (age 50)

London, England

Occupation| Film editor

Mark Sanger (born 13 January 1974) is a British film editor.

## Honours[edit]

In 2014 he was elected as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and also as a member of the American Cinema Editors.[1]

In July 2018 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Solent University. In 2018, Sanger released his short directorial debut Reflection,[2] which screened at film festivals such as the International Film Festival of Wales, where it was nominated for Best Short Film.[3]

In 2021 he became a member of the British Film Editors (BFE).

## Filmography[edit]

Year  | Credit  | Title  | Director

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2024  | Editor  | Masters of the Air | Cary Joji Fukunaga
TBD  | Executive Producer  | The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu  | Otto Bell
2024  | Editor  | Snow White | Marc Webb
2022  | Editor  | Jurassic World Dominion | Colin Trevorrow
2020  | Editor / Co-Producer  | Joe Bell | Reinaldo Marcus Green
2020  | Editor / Co-Producer  | Embattled | Nick Sarkisov
2018  | Director  | Reflection  | Mark Sanger
2019  | Editor  | Pokémon Detective Pikachu | Rob Letterman
2018  | Editor  | Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle | Andy Serkis
2017  | Editor  | Transformers: The Last Knight | Michael Bay
2015  | Editor  | Last Knights | Kazuaki Kiriya
2013  | Editor  | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón
2010  | Visual Effects Editor  | Alice in Wonderland | Tim Burton
2009  | First Assistant Editor / Visual Effects Editor  | Solomon Kane | M. J. Bassett
2008  | First Assistant Editor / Visual Effects Editor  | The Secret of Moonacre | Gábor Csupó
2007  | Visual Effects Editor  | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Tim Burton
2006  | Visual Effects Editor  | Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón
2006  | First Assistant Editor / Visual Effects Editor  | Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker | Geoffrey Sax
2005  | Visual Effects Editor  | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Tim Burton
2004  | Visual Effects Editor  | Troy | Wolfgang Petersen
2004  | First Assistant Editor  | If Only | Gil Junger
2002  | Visual Effects Editor  | Die Another Day | Lee Tamahori
2002  | First Assistant Editor  | Possession | Neil LaBute
2001  | Assistant Editor  | The Mummy Returns | Stephen Sommers
2000  | Assistant Editor  | 102 Dalmatians | Kevin Lima
1999  | Assistant Film Editor  | Felicia's Journey | Atom Egoyan
1999  | Assistant Film Editor  | The Mummy | Stephen Sommers
1999  | Assistant Film Editor  | The World Is Not Enough | Michael Apted
1998  | Assistant Film Editor  | Respect  | Oz Hutchins
1998  | Location Assistant (Uncredited)  | Goodnight Mister Tom | Jack Gold
1998  | Location Assistant (Uncredited)  | Shakespeare in Love | John Madden
1997  | Assistant Film Editor  | Tomorrow Never Dies | Roger Spottiswoode
1997  | Floor Runner  | Plotlands | John Strickland
1997  | Location Assistant (Uncredited)  | Hamish Macbeth | Mandie Fletcher
1994  | Special Effects Technician (Uncredited)  | Scarlett | John Erman

## Awards and nominations[edit]

### 2014[edit]

* Academy Award for Best Film Editing – Gravity (won)
* American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic – Gravity (nominated)
* BAFTA Award for Best Editing – Gravity (nominated)
* Saturn Award for Best Editing – Gravity (won)

### 2013[edit]

* Alliance of Women Film Journalists for Best Editing – Gravity (won)
* Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing – Gravity (won)
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing – Gravity (won)
* Las Vegas Film Critics Society for Best Editing – Gravity (won)
* Los Angeles Film Critics Association for Best Editing – Gravity (won)
* Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing – Gravity (won)
* Phoenix Film Critics Society for Best Editing – Gravity (won)
* San Diego Film Critics Society for Best Editing – Gravity (nominated)
* San Francisco Film Critics Circle for Best Editing – Gravity (won)
* Satellite Award for Best Editing – Gravity (nominated)
* Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Editing – Gravity (won)

## References[edit]

1. ^ "2013 Oscar Nominees | 85th Academy Awards Nominees". Archived from the original on 10 January 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
2. ^ Reflection (Short 2018) - IMDb, retrieved 22 March 2023
3. ^ "International Film Festival of Wales | 2018". Film Festival Guild. Retrieved 22 March 2023.

## External links[edit]

* Mark Sanger at IMDb
* [1] Interview with Kevin Pollak, 2014, Kevin Pollak's Chat Show.
* [2] Interview at Solent University, 2018, after receiving an Honorary Doctorate.
* [3] Interview with Steve Hullfish, 2019 for 'Art of the Cut'.

Awards for Mark Sanger

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

1934–1950|

* Conrad A. Nervig – Eskimo (1934)
* Ralph Dawson \- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
* Ralph Dawson \- Anthony Adverse (1936)
* Gene Havlick and Gene Milford \- Lost Horizon (1937)
* Ralph Dawson \- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
* Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom \- Gone with the Wind (1939)
* Anne Bauchens \- North West Mounted Police (1940)
* William Holmes \- Sergeant York (1941)
* Daniel Mandell \- The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
* George Amy \- Air Force (1943)
* Barbara McLean \- Wilson (1944)
* Robert J. Kern \- National Velvet (1945)
* Daniel Mandell \- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
* Francis D. Lyon and Robert Parrish \- Body and Soul (1947)
* Paul Weatherwax \- The Naked City (1948)
* Harry W. Gerstad \- Champion (1949)
* Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig \- King Solomon's Mines (1950)

1951–1975|

* William Hornbeck \- A Place in the Sun (1951)
* Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad \- High Noon (1952)
* William Lyon \- From Here to Eternity (1953)
* Gene Milford \- On the Waterfront (1954)
* Charles Nelson and William Lyon \- Picnic (1955)
* Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax \- Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
* Peter Taylor \- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
* Adrienne Fazan \- Gigi (1958)
* Ralph E. Winters and John Dunning \- Ben-Hur (1959)
* Daniel Mandell \- The Apartment (1960)
* Thomas Stanford \- West Side Story (1961)
* Anne V. Coates \- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
* Harold F. Kress \- How the West Was Won (1963)
* Cotton Warburton \- Mary Poppins (1964)
* William Reynolds \- The Sound of Music (1965)
* Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stu Linder, and Frank Santillo \- Grand Prix (1966)
* Hal Ashby \- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
* Frank P. Keller \- Bullitt (1968)
* Françoise Bonnot \- Z (1969)
* Hugh S. Fowler \- Patton (1970)
* Gerald B. Greenberg \- The French Connection (1971)
* David Bretherton \- Cabaret (1972)
* William Reynolds \- The Sting (1973)
* Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress \- The Towering Inferno (1974)
* Verna Fields \- Jaws (1975)

1976–2000|

* Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad \- Rocky (1976)
* Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew \- Star Wars (1977)
* Peter Zinner \- The Deer Hunter (1978)
* Alan Heim \- All That Jazz (1979)
* Thelma Schoonmaker \- Raging Bull (1980)
* Michael Kahn \- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
* John Bloom \- Gandhi (1982)
* Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, and Tom Rolf \- The Right Stuff (1983)
* Jim Clark \- The Killing Fields (1984)
* Thom Noble \- Witness (1985)
* Claire Simpson \- Platoon (1986)
* Gabriella Cristiani \- The Last Emperor (1987)
* Arthur Schmidt \- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
* David Brenner and Joe Hutshing \- Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
* Neil Travis \- Dances with Wolves (1990)
* Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia \- JFK (1991)
* Joel Cox \- Unforgiven (1992)
* Michael Kahn \- Schindler's List (1993)
* Arthur Schmidt \- Forrest Gump (1994)
* Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley \- Apollo 13 (1995)
* Walter Murch \- The English Patient (1996)
* Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris \- Titanic (1997)
* Michael Kahn \- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
* Zach Staenberg \- The Matrix (1999)
* Stephen Mirrione \- Traffic (2000)

2001–present|

* Pietro Scalia \- Black Hawk Down (2001)
* Martin Walsh \- Chicago (2002)
* Jamie Selkirk \- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
* Thelma Schoonmaker \- The Aviator (2004)
* Hughes Winborne \- Crash (2005)
* Thelma Schoonmaker \- The Departed (2006)
* Christopher Rouse \- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
* Chris Dickens \- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
* Chris Innis and Bob Murawski \- The Hurt Locker (2009)
* Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall \- The Social Network (2010)
* Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall \- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
* William Goldenberg \- Argo (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger \- Gravity (2013)
* Tom Cross \- Whiplash (2014)
* Margaret Sixel \- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
* John Gilbert \- Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
* Lee Smith \- Dunkirk (2017)
* John Ottman \- Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
* Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland \- Ford v Ferrari (2019)
* Mikkel E. G. Nielsen \- Sound of Metal (2020/21)
* Joe Walker \- Dune (2021)
* Paul Rogers \- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

* Best Film Editing became Best Editing in 1999

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Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing

* William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013)
* Tom Cross (2014)
* Jason Ballantine and Margaret Sixel (2015)
* Tom Cross (2016)
* Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough (2018)
* Thelma Schoonmaker (2019)
* Robert Frazen (2020)
* Andrew Weisblum (2021)
* Paul Rogers (2022)
* Jennifer Lame (2023)

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Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing

* Stephen E. Rivkin, John Refoua, and James Cameron (2009)
* Lee Smith (2010)
* Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall (2011)
* William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013)
* Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione (2014)
* Margaret Sixel (2015)
* Tom Cross (2016)
* Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos / Lee Smith (2017)
* Tom Cross (2018)
* Lee Smith (2019)
* Alan Baumgarten / Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2020)
* Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn (2021)
* Paul Rogers (2022)
* Jennifer Lame (2023)

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing

* Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013)
* Sandra Adair (2014)
* Hank Corwin (2015)
* Bret Granato and Maya Mumma (2016)
* Lee Smith (2017)
* Joshua Altman and Bing Liu (2018)
* Todd Douglas Miller (2019)
* Yorgos Lamprinos (2020)
* Joshua L. Pearson (2021)
* Blair McClendon (2022)
* Laurent Sénéchal (2023)

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Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing

* Michael Kahn (1998)
* Mathilde Bonnefoy (1999)
* Jay Rabinowitz (2000)
* No Award (2001)
* Michael J. Horton and Jabez Olssen (2002)
* No Award (2003)
* Valdís Óskarsdóttir (2004)
* Robert Rodriguez (2005)
* Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, and Christopher Rouse (2006)
* Roderick Jaynes (2007)
* Chris Dickens (2008)
* Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009)
* Lee Smith (2010)
* Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber, and Mark Yoshikawa (2011)
* Alexander Berner (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013)
* Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione (2014)
* Margaret Sixel (2015)
* Tom Cross (2016)
* Lee Smith (2017)
* Eddie Hamilton (2018)
* Yang Jin-mo (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Peter Sciberras (2021)
* Paul Rogers (2022)
* Jennifer Lame (2023)

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Saturn Award for Best Editing

* Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (1977)
* Joe Dante and Mark Goldblatt (1978)
* Paul Hirsch (2011)
* Alexander Berner (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013)
* James Herbert and Laura Jennings (2014)
* Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey (2015)
* Michael Kahn (2016)
* Bob Ducsay (2017)
* Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt (2018/2019)
* Bob Ducsay (2019/2020)
* Eddie Hamilton (2021/2022)
* Jennifer Lame (2022/2023)

Note: The years are listed as per convention, usually the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the next year.

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