Joel Cox is an American Academy Award-winning film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood in over 30 films.
Cox has been working in film since appearing as a baby in Random Harvest (1942). He started in the mailroom at Warner Bros. in 1961.
His first film as an assistant editor was on the 1969 film The Wild Bunch directed by Sam Peckinpah. Cox has collaborated with Clint Eastwood on 30 films since the 1976 film The Outlaw ...
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Joel Cox is an American Academy Award-winning film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood in over 30 films.
Cox has been working in film since appearing as a baby in Random Harvest (1942). He started in the mailroom at Warner Bros. in 1961.
His first film as an assistant editor was on the 1969 film The Wild Bunch directed by Sam Peckinpah. Cox has collaborated with Clint Eastwood on 30 films since the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales. Eastwood has re-cut only one scene that Cox has put together in 30 years. He edited the 2008 films Changeling and Gran Torino with Gary D. Roach.
Cox won the 1992 Academy Award for Film Editing for Unforgiven. He has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors. On November 25, 2008, Clint Eastwood presented Cox the first Ignacy Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award, which is named in honor of the piano virtuoso who called Paso Robles home, at the first Paso Robles Digital Film Festival. He received a nomination for the...
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