Jabez Olssen (born 5 August 1975) is a New Zealand
film and television editor who has worked extensively with director
Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand filmmaker. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy (2001–2003) and the ''Hobbit'' trilogy (2012–2014), both of which ar ...
.
Starting in 1998, Olssen worked in the editorial department of two television programs in
New Zealand
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. He was then hired to work with principal editor
Michael J. Horton on ''
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' (directed by Peter Jackson – 2002). Olssen was ultimately credited as an "additional editor" on this film. The two editors won the
Online Film Critics Society Award
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and the
Las Vegas
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Film Critics Society Award for this film.
Olssen said of his work "Anyway, if I never get to edit anything ever again, I can still say that I've edited scenes with Gollum in them and I've edited scenes with Darth Vader in them so, I'm good."
He won an
Emmy
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in the 2022 award ceremony for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program for his work on
The Beatles: Get Back.
Filmography
Editor
References
External links
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Living people
New Zealand film editors
New Zealand people of Norwegian descent
1975 births
Primetime Emmy Award winners
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