Conrad Albinus Nervig (June 24, 1889 – November 26, 1980) was an American

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology. The film edi ...

with 81 film credits. He began work in 1922 at

Goldwyn Pictures Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company that operated from 1916 to 1924 when it was merged with two other production companies to form the major studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was founded on November 19, 1 ...

, and remained with the studio after its merger to form

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 ...

(MGM) in 1924. He spent essentially his entire career at MGM, retiring from the studio in 1954. Nervig was the first recipient of the

Academy Award for Film Editing An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...

for the film ''

Eskimo Eskimo () is an exonym used to refer to two closely related Indigenous peoples: the Inuit (including the Alaska Native Iñupiat, the Greenlandic Inuit, and the Canadian Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A related thi ...

'' (1933). He won a second "Oscar" (shared with Ralph E. Winters) for the film ''

King Solomon's Mines ''King Solomon's Mines'' (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the ...

'' (1950). He was also nominated for his work on ''

A Tale of Two Cities ''A Tale of Two Cities'' is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the ...

'' (1935).

Filmography

*'' Winners of the Wilderness'' (1927) *'' Rookies'' (1927) *'' The Fair Co-Ed'' (1927) *'' The Divine Woman'' (1928) *''

The Actress ''The Actress'' is a 1953 American comedy-drama film based on Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play ''Years Ago''. Gordon herself wrote the screenplay. The film was directed by George Cukor and stars Jean Simmons, Spencer Tracy, and Teresa Wrig ...

'' (1928) *'' The Masks of the Devil'' (1928) *'' The Wind'' (1928) *'' Wild Orchids'' (1929) *'' The Idle Rich'' (1929) *'' The Last of Mrs. Cheyney'' (1929) *'' Devil-May-Care'' (1929) *'' Die Sehnsucht Jeder Frau'' (1930) *''

A Lady to Love ''A Lady to Love'' is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Victor Sjöström and written by Sidney Howard. It stars Vilma Bánky, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Ames, Richard Carle and Lloyd Ingraham. The film was released on February ...

'' (1930) *''

Call of the Flesh ''Call of the Flesh'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Charles Brabin. The film stars Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, and Renée Adorée. It featured several songs performed by Novarro and originally included a sequence photo ...

'' (1930) *''

Passion Flower ''Passiflora'', known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 550 species of flowering plants, the type genus of the family Passifloraceae. They are mostly tendril-bearing vines, with some being shrubs or trees. The ...

'' (1930) *'' Le procès de Mary Dugan'' (1931) *'' Buster se marie'' (1931) *'' Inspiration'' (1931) *'' Son of India'' (1931) *''

The Guardsman ''The Guardsman'' is a 1931 American pre-Code film based on the play '' Testőr'' by Ferenc Molnár. It stars Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young and ZaSu Pitts. It opens with a stage re-enactment of the final scene of Maxwell Anderson's ' ...

'' (1931) *''

Private Lives ''Private Lives'' is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetuall ...

'' (1931) *''

Letty Lynton ''Letty Lynton'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Nils Asther. The film was directed by Clarence Brown and based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes; the novel ...

'' (1932) *''

Downstairs Downstairs may refer to: * Downstairs (EP), an independent release by the band 311 * ''Downstairs'' (film), a 1932 film starring John Gilbert * The Downstairs Club (later Le Disque a Go! Go!) See also *Downstair Stairs are a structure design ...

'' (1932) *'' Kongo'' (1932) *''

The Women in His Life ''The Women in His Life'' is a 1933 American pre-Code crime film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Otto Kruger. Cast * Otto Kruger as Kent 'Barry' Barringer * Una Merkel as Miss 'Simmy' Simmons * Ben Lyon as Roger McKane * Isabel Jew ...

'' (1933) *''

'' (1934) *'' Paris Interlude'' (1934) *'' The Night Is Young'' (1935) *'' The Casino Murder Case'' (1935) *'' Murder in the Fleet'' (1935) *'' Calm Yourself'' (1935) *''

'' (1935) *'' Exclusive Story'' (1936) *'' Absolute Quiet'' (1936) *'' Women Are Trouble'' (1936) *'' His Brother's Wife'' (1936) *'' Maytime'' (1937) *''

The Emperor's Candlesticks ''The Emperor's Candlesticks'' is an 1899 historical novel by Baroness Orczy. Written soon after the birth of her son John, it is her first book as an author rather than translator and was a commercial failure. As in the Scarlet Pimpernel, th ...

'' (1937) *'' Live, Love and Learn'' (1937) *'' Beg, Borrow or Steal'' (1937) *'' Love Is a Headache'' (1938) *'' The First Hundred Years'' (1938) *'' The Crowd Roars'' (1938) *'' Spring Madness'' (1938) *''

Honolulu Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the islan ...

'' (1939) *'' Sergeant Madden'' (1939) *'' 6,000 Enemies'' (1939) *'' Henry Goes Arizona'' (1939) *''

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arct ...

'' (1940) *'' The Man from Dakota'' (1940) *'' And One Was Beautiful'' (1940) *''

Phantom Raiders ''Phantom Raiders'' is a 1940 film, the second in the series starring Walter Pidgeon as detective Nick Carter. The film was part of a movie trilogy based on original stories featuring the character from the long-running ''Nick Carter, Detective'' ...

'' (1940) *'' The Golden Fleecing'' (1940) *'' Hullabaloo'' (1940) *'' The Bad Man'' (1941) *'' The Big Store'' (1941) *'' Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day'' (1941) *'' The Omaha Trail'' (1942) *''

I Married an Angel ''I Married An Angel'' is a 1938 musical comedy by Rodgers and Hart. It was adapted from a play by Hungarian playwright János Vaszary, entitled ''Angyalt Vettem Felesegul''. The book was by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, with music by Rodge ...

'' (1942) *'' Kathleen'' (1942) *'' Grand Central Murder'' (1942) *'' The Human Comedy'' (1943) *'' An American Romance'' (1944) *'' Nothing but Trouble'' (1945) *'' Courage of Lassie'' (1946) *'' No Leave, No Love'' (1946) *'' High Barbaree'' (1947) *''

High Wall ''High Wall'' is a 1947 American film noir starring Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt from a screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Lester Cole, based on a play by Alan R. Clark and Bradbury Foote. ...

'' (1948) *''

Act of Violence ''Act of Violence'' is a 1949 American film noir starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan and featuring Janet Leigh, Mary Astor and Phyllis Thaxter. Directed by Fred Zinnemann and adapted for the screen by Robert L. Richards from a story by Collier ...

'' (1949) *'' Border Incident'' (1949) *'' Side Street'' (1949) *'' Devil's Doorway'' (1950) *''

'' (1950) *''

Vengeance Valley ''Vengeance Valley'' is a 1951 American Technicolor Western film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Burt Lancaster, with a supporting cast featuring Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest, John Ireland and Ray Collins. It is based on t ...

'' (1951) *'' Too Young to Kiss(1951) *''

The Merry Widow ''The Merry Widow'' (german: Die lustige Witwe, links=no ) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to ...

'' (1952) *''

The Bad and the Beautiful ''The Bad and the Beautiful'' is a 1952 American melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates everyone around him. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, written by George Bradshaw and Charles Schnee, and starring Lana T ...

'' (1953) *''

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis ''The Affairs of Dobie Gillis'' is a 1953 American comedy musical film directed by Don Weis. The film is based on the short stories by Max Shulman collected as ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'' (also the title of the later TV series). Bobby Va ...

'' (1953) *''

Gypsy Colt ''Gypsy Colt'' is a 1954 American drama film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond and Frances Dee. Shot in Ansco Color, it was produced and distributed by Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film's basic pl ...

'' (1954) *'' Death of a Scoundrel'' (1956)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nervig, Conrad A. 1889 births 1980 deaths Best Film Editing Academy Award winners People from Grant County, South Dakota American film editors