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Stephen Mirrione

Stephen Mirrione (born February 17, 1969) is an American film editor. He is best known for winning an Academy Award for his editing of the film Traffic (2000).

Stephen Mirrione

(1969-02-17) February 17, 1969

Life and career[edit]

Mirrione was born in Santa Clara County, California. He attended Bellarmine College Preparatory and then the University of California, Santa Cruz, from which he received his bachelor's degree in 1991.[1] He moved to Los Angeles, and began a collaboration with Doug Liman, who was then a graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Mirrione edited Liman's first feature films Getting In (1994), Swingers (1996), and Go (1999), which was an homage to Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon.[2]


Mirrione has had a notable collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh. The two met when Soderbergh attended the opening of Go. About one year later, he asked Mirrione to edit Traffic (2000),[2] which earned Mirrione an Oscar. 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 gives Traffic 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 the Ocean's films directed by Soderbergh and starring George Clooney (Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), and Ocean's Thirteen (2007)), as well as The Informant! (2009) and Contagion (2011).


Mirrione won an American Cinema Editors "Eddie" Award in 2006 for his editing of Alejandro González Iñárritu's film Babel, for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award. He has been nominated four times for BAFTA Awards for editing Traffic, 21 Grams (also directed by Inarritu – 2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (directed by George Clooney-2005), and for Babel.


Mirrione has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors.[4]

Traffic (won) Academy Award Film Editing

2000

Babel (nominated) Academy Award Film Editing

2006

The Revenant (nominated) Academy Award Film Editing

2015

Traffic (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing

2000

Traffic (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic

2000

2002 – (won) San Diego Film Critics Society SDFCS Award Best Editing

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

21 Grams (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing

2003

Good Night, and Good Luck (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing

2005

Good Night, and Good Luck (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic

2005

Babel (won) Cannes Film Festival Vulcain Prize – Awarded to a technical artist by the C.S.T.[5]

2006

Babel (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing

2006

Babel (won) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic

2006

Biutiful (nominated) 25th Goya Awards Best Editing

2010

August: Osage County (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical

2013

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing

2014

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical

2014

The Revenant (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing

2015

The Revenant (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic

2015

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Stephen Mirrione