Kirk Baxter (born 1972) is an Australian

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 has worked with director

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and editor

Angus Wall Angus Alexander Wall (born March 15, 1967) is a film editor and film title designer. He and fellow film editor Kirk Baxter won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the David Fincher film ''The Social Network'' (2010) and again the next yea ...

several times, winning

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for '' The Social Network'' and ''

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''. Baxter was raised in Sydney, Australia and commenced his career as an editor there. He had been noted primarily for his work editing commercials, and co-founded a commercial editing firm named Final Cut. In 2004, Baxter joined Angus Wall's firm Rock Paper Scissors, which was also responsible for commercial work. Baxter then worked with Wall as an "additional editor" on Fincher's film ''

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''. When Wall was chosen to edit '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'', he proposed to Fincher that Baxter be the co-editor, and they have since worked together on Fincher's subsequent films. Baxter and Wall were nominated for the

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, the

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, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for their work on ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. For their work on '' The Social Network'', Baxter and Wall won an

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and a BAFTA in 2011. The following year, they won a second Oscar for ''

''. In 2014, Baxter's next edited film was '' Gone Girl'', also directed by David Fincher, and was his first film to not be co-edited by Angus Wall.

Filmography (as editor)

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