Paul Rubell 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 ...

. His career spans 25 years in both film and

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. Rubell obtained his

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from the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...

. Rubell worked for a time with editor Lou Lombardo. His first editing credit was for the film '' The Final Terror'' (1983). He worked for about ten years on films and programming for television before returning to feature films as the editor for '' The Island of Dr. Moreau''. Rubell has been elected to membership in the

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on 2008-03-04.

Awards

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

nominated for an Emmy for '' My Name is Bill W.'' *

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicis ...

nominated for an

Eddie Award Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing. Members use the post-nominal ...

for Best Edited Television Special for ''My Name is Bill W.'' *

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone o ...

nominated for an Eddie Award for Best Edited Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television for '' The Burning Season'' *

nominated for an

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for '' Andersonville'' *

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

won the Eddie Award for Best Edited Episode from a Television Mini-Series for ''Andersonville'' (episode 2) *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

nominated for a

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for '' The Insider'' * 2000 nominated for an Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic for ''The Insider'' * 2000 nominated for an

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for ''The Insider'' *

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; " Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discover ...

won the Satellite Award for Best Editing for ''

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'' * 2005 nominated for

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for ''Collateral'' * 2005 nominated for an Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic for ''Collateral'' * 2005 nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing for ''Collateral''

Filmography

References

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* * * 1952 births American film editors American Cinema Editors University of California, Los Angeles alumni Living people People from Los Angeles {{US-film-editor-stub