John Refoua (born December 8, 1964) is 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 edit ...

. He was nominated at the

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Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for the film ''

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''. He was nominated along with

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and Stephen E. Rivkin. He has worked on television series, including '' Touched by an Angel'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Awards

Refoua has had 2 wins and 8 nominations for his editing work. Won: *2010 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards for Best Editing on Avatar (2009) (Shared with: Stephen E. Rivkin) *2009 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards for Best Film Editing on Avatar (2009) (Shared with: James Cameron and Stephen E. Rivkin) Nominations: *2010

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, USA for Best Achievement in Film Editing on Avatar (2009) (Shared with: Stephen E. Rivkin and James Cameron) *2010

BAFTA Awards The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Film Awards is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film. The cere ...

for Best Editing on Avatar (2009) (Shared with: Stephen E. Rivkin and James Cameron) *2010

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, USA for Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) on Avatar (2009) (Shared with: Stephen E. Rivkin and James Cameron) *2010

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, US for Outstanding Editing on a Feature Film on Avatar (2009) (Shared with: Stephen E. Rivkin and James Cameron) *2010 Online Film & Television Association for Best Film Editing on Avatar (2009) (Shared with: Stephen E. Rivkin and James Cameron) *2010 Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing on Avatar (2009) (Shared with: Stephen E. Rivkin and James Cameron) *2009 Awards Circuit Community Award for Best Film Editing on Avatar (2009) (Shared with: Stephen E. Rivkin and James Cameron)

Filmography

*''

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'' (2024) *'' Avatar: The Way of Water'' (2022) *''

Geostorm ''Geostorm'' is a 2017 American science fiction disaster film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Dean Devlin (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris, and Andy García. It f ...

'' (2017) *'' Transformers: The Last Knight'' (2017) *''

The Magnificent Seven ''The Magnificent Seven'' is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges. The screenplay by William Roberts is a remake – in an Old West–style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film ''Seven Samurai'' (itself initially relea ...

'' (2016) *'' Southpaw'' (2015) *'' The Equalizer'' (2014) *''

Olympus Has Fallen ''Olympus Has Fallen'' is a 2013 American action thriller film directed and co-produced by Antoine Fuqua from a screenplay written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, and is the first installment in the ''Has Fallen'' film series. T ...

'' (2013) * ''21 & Over'' (2013) *''

'' (2009) *'' Balls of Fury'' (2007) *'' Reno 911!: Miami'' (2007) *''

Ghosts of the Abyss ''Ghosts of the Abyss'' is a 2003 American documentary film produced by Walden Media and released in most countries by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by James Cameron after his 1997 film ''Titanic''. During August and September 2001, Camer ...

'' (2003) *''

Soft Toilet Seats ''Soft Toilet Seats'' is a 1999 comedy film written and directed by Tina Valinsky and starring David Rosen, Alexa Jago and Jonathan Aube. It first had a limited release in the United States on December 3, 1999, before commercially releasing on M ...

'' (1999)

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* American film editors Living people 1964 births {{film-editor-stub