Christopher Russell Rouse (born November 28, 1958) is an American film and television editor and screenwriter who has about a dozen feature-film credits and numerous television credits. Rouse won the

Academy Award for Best Film Editing The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive year ...

, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the ACE Eddie Award for the film '' The Bourne Ultimatum'' (2007).

Life and career

Rouse was born in

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, California. His father,

Russell Rouse Russell Rouse (November 20, 1913 – October 2, 1987) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer who is noted for the "offbeat creativity and originality" of his screenplays and for film noir movies and television episodes produced ...

, was a writer, director and producer. His mother was actress Beverly Michaels. In the 1980s, he worked as an assistant editor on numerous films, commencing with '' All Summer in a Day'' (1982). His first editing credit was for ''

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'' (1990), which was directed by

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. Much of Rouse's work in the 1990s was in television. He edited the mini-series '' Anne Frank: The Whole Story'' (2002) for which he was nominated for an

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. Rouse has worked on six films with director

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. ''

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'' (2004) was their first collaboration. Rouse had previously been an "additional editor" on the initial film in the Bourne series, '' The Bourne Identity'' (2002), that had been directed by

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. Frank Marshall, who co-produced the Bourne series, recommended Rouse to Greengrass.Frazer, Bryant (2007)
"Film Editor Christopher Rouse on The Bourne Ultimatum"
''Film and Video Magazine'', September 11, 2007. Online version retrieved May 31, 2008. The editing of their second feature together, '' United 93'' (2006), received the BAFTA Award as well as nominations for the Academy Award and the ACE Eddie Award. Rouse won the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, and the ACE Eddie for his third collaboration ''The Bourne Ultimatum'' (2007). He edited Greengrass' 2010 film ''

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''. Several interviews of Rouse have been published where he discusses the editing of Greengrass's films. Greengrass is noted for a "

cinéma vérité Cinéma vérité (, , ) is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about '' Kino-Pravda''. It combines improvisation with use of the camera to unveil truth or highlight subje ...

" style of filmmaking that uses several handheld cameras, and that creates opportunities for innovative editing. Ellen Feldman has written a detailed analysis of the editing of ''United 93''.

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has discussed this aspect of the films as a further extension of "intensified continuity", which is a perspective on filmmaking that Bordwell has been developing for some years. Rouse has been elected as a member of the

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., webpage archived by WebCite fro
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Filmography

;Documentaries TV movies TV series TV shorts

Awards and nominations

*2008 **Won:

Academy Award The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence ...

for Best Film Editing - '' The Bourne Ultimatum'' **Won: BAFTA Film Awards Best Edited Feature Film - '' The Bourne Ultimatum'' **Won: ACE Eddie Best Edited Film - Drama - '' The Bourne Ultimatum'' *2007 **Nominated: Academy Award for Film Editing - '' United 93'' **Won: BAFTA Award for Best Editing - '' United 93'' **Nominated: ACE Eddie Best Edited Film - Drama - '' United 93'' **Won:

Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best editing of the year. These awards are noted in the established print media such as ''Variety (magazine), Variet ...

- '' United 93'' *2006 ** Won: San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing - '' United 93'' *2001 **Nominated:

- '' Anne Frank: The Whole Story''

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rouse, Christopher 1958 births Living people 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American screenwriters American Cinema Editors American film editors American male screenwriters American television editors Best Editing BAFTA Award winners Best Film Editing Academy Award winners Film people from Los Angeles Screenwriters from California Writers from Los Angeles

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Filmography

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See also

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