Gerry Hambling (born 1926) is a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he has also worked as a sound editor and a television editor. Hambling's editing of three films, The Commitments (1991), Mississippi Burning (1988), and Midnight Express (1978), has been honored by BAFTA Awards for Best Editing.
In 1976, Hambling began a notable collaboration with the director Alan Parker that has extended over nearly all of Parker's films. Th...
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Gerry Hambling (born 1926) is a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he has also worked as a sound editor and a television editor. Hambling's editing of three films, The Commitments (1991), Mississippi Burning (1988), and Midnight Express (1978), has been honored by BAFTA Awards for Best Editing.
In 1976, Hambling began a notable collaboration with the director Alan Parker that has 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:
In addition to the three BAFTA Awards, Hambling has been nominated for the BAFTA award for three additional films (Fame, Another Country, and Evita). Six films edited by Hambling were nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing (Midnight Express, Fame, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, In the Name of the Father, and Evita). Hambling has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors....
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