Paul Rubell

American film editor (born 1952)

Paul Rubell

Born|  (1952-09-06) September 6, 1952 (age 72)

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation| Film editor

Paul Rubell is an American film editor. His career spans 25 years in both film and television.

## Education

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Rubell obtained his bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.

## Career

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Rubell worked for a time with editor Lou Lombardo. His first editing credit was for the film The Final Terror (1983). He worked for about ten years on films and programming for television before returning to feature films as the editor for The Island of Dr. Moreau.[1]

Rubell has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.[2]

## Awards

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* 1989 nominated for an Emmy for My Name is Bill W.
* 1990 nominated for an Eddie Award for Best Edited Television Special for My Name is Bill W.
* 1996 nominated for an Eddie Award for Best Edited Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television for The Burning Season
* 1996 nominated for an Emmy for Andersonville
* 1997 won the Eddie Award for Best Edited Episode from a Television Mini-Series for Andersonville (episode 2)
* 2000 nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Editing for The Insider
* 2000 nominated for an Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic for The Insider
* 2000 nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for The Insider
* 2005 won the Satellite Award for Best Editing for Collateral
* 2005 nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Collateral
* 2005 nominated for an Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic for Collateral
* 2005 nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing for Collateral

## Filmography

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Year  | Film  | Director  | Other notes

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1983  | The Final Terror | Andrew Davis | Co-edited with Erica Flaum
1984  | The Stone Boy | Christopher Cain | —
1992  | Ruby Cairo | Graeme Clifford | Co-edited with Caroline Biggerstaff and Mark Winitsky
1996  | The Island of Dr. Moreau | John Frankenheimer | Co-edited with Adam P. Scott and Thom Noble(uncredited)
1998  | Blade | Stephen Norrington | —
1999  | The Insider | Michael Mann | Co-edited with David Rosenbloom and William Goldenberg
First collaboration with Michael Mann
2000  | The Cell | Tarsem Singh | Co-edited with Robert Duffy
2002  | XXX | Rob Cohen | Co-edited with Chris Lebenzon and Joel Negron
Simone | Andrew Niccol | —
2003  | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | Stephen Norrington  | —
Peter Pan | P. J. Hogan | Additional editor
2004  | Collateral | Michael Mann  | Co-edited with Jim Miller
Second collaboration with Michael Mann
2005  | The Island | Michael Bay | Co-edited with Christian Wagner
Additional editing by John Murray, Roger Barton and Tom Muldoon
First collaboration with Michael Bay
2006  | Miami Vice | Michael Mann  | Co-edited with William Goldenberg
Third collaboration with Michael Mann
2007  | Transformers | Michael Bay  | Co-edited with Glen Scantlebury and Tom Muldoon
Second collaboration with Michael Bay
2008  | Hancock | Peter Berg | Co-edited with Colby Parker Jr.
2009  | Public Enemies | Michael Mann  | Co-edited with Jeffrey Ford
Fourth collaboration with Michael Mann
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Michael Bay  | Co-edited with Joel Negron, Tom Muldoon and Roger Barton
Third collaboration with Michael Bay
2011  | Thor | Kenneth Branagh | —
2012  | The Avengers | Joss Whedon | Additional editor
Battleship | Peter Berg  | Co-edited with Billy Rich and Colby Parker Jr.
2014  | Need for Speed | Scott Waugh | Co-edited with Scott Waugh
Transformers: Age of Extinction | Michael Bay  | Co-edited with Roger Barton and William Goldenberg
Fourth collaboration with Michael Bay
Seventh Son | Sergei Bodrov | Co-edited with Jim Page and Michael Kahn
2016  | The 5th Wave | J Blakeson | —
2017  | The Fate of the Furious | F. Gary Gray | Co-edited with Christian Wagner
2018  | Bumblebee | Travis Knight | —

## References

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1. ^ Kaufman, Debra (2005). "Cutting to the Chase: Veterans and Assistants on How to Get Ahead in Editing", Film & Video May 1, 2005. Article archived at WebCite on 2008-07-07 from this original URL.
2. ^ "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.

## External links

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* Paul Rubell at IMDb
* "Q&A: 'TRANSFORMERS' EDITOR PAUL RUBELL". www.postmagazine.com. July 1, 2007. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
* Essman, Scott (November–December 1999). "Delving Inside The Post-Production Of THE INSIDER". Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter. 20 (6). Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2008-12-08.

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Satellite Award for Best Editing

* David Brenner (1996)
* Conrad Buff IV and Richard A. Harris (1997)
* Michael Kahn (1998)
* Andrew Mondshein (1999)
* Conrad Buff IV (2000)
* John Gilbert (2001)
* Thelma Schoonmaker (2002)
* Victor Du Bois and Steven Rosenblum (2003)
* Jim Miller and Paul Rubell (2004)
* Geraldine Peroni and Dylan Tichenor (2005)
* Mark Goldblatt, Mark Helfrich, and Julia Wong (2006)
* Pietro Scalia (2007)
* Dan Lebental (2008)
* Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009)
* Robert Frazen (2010)
* Chris Gill (2011)
* Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers (2012)
* Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, and Crispin Struthers (2013)
* William Hoy and Stan Salfas (2014)
* Joe Walker (2015)
* John Gilbert (2016)
* William Hoy and Stan Salfas (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019)
* Alan Baumgarten (2020)
* Joe Walker (2021)
* Paul Rogers (2022)
* Kevin Tent (2023)
* Joe Walker (2024)

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