Mathilde Bonnefoy (born 11 March 1972) is a French

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 edi ...

and

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who was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of the film ''

Run Lola Run ''Run Lola Run'' (german: Lola rennt}, lit. "Lola Runs") is a 1998 German experimental thriller film written and directed by Tom Tykwer. The story follows a woman named Lola ( Franka Potente) who needs to obtain 100,000 Deutschmarks in twenty ...

'' (1998) and who won the award for editing the documentary ''

Citizenfour ''Citizenfour'' is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal. The film had its US premiere on October 10, 2014, at the New York Film Festival and its UK premiere on October 17, 2014, at ...

'' (2014). She and her husband Dirk Wilutzky additionally served as producers of ''Citizenfour'' with its director

Laura Poitras Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for '' Citizenfour'', about Ed ...

, and the three received the 2014

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. Bonnefoy was born in

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, and is the daughter of the French poet

Yves Bonnefoy Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016 Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was p ...

and Lucy Vines, an American; she has dual citizenship in France and the United States. From 1990 to 1991 she studied philosophy at the

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, but she abandoned her studies to move to

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. By 1995 she was working as an assistant editor, and in 1997 she was credited as the " Avid assistant" for the German film '' Das Leben ist eine Baustelle'' (directed by Wolfgang Becker). ''Das Leben ist eine Baustelle'' was one of the first films produced by the film company X Filme GmbH, which was created by Becker and

Tom Tykwer Tom Tykwer (; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films ''Run Lola Run'' (1998), ''Heaven'' (2002), '' Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'' ...

(among others). Tykwer, who was the screenwriter for ''Das Leben ...'', recruited Bonnefoy as the editor of ''

'' (1998), which he was directing. This film enjoyed international critical and box office success. It garnered Bonnefoy a ''

Deutscher Filmpreis The German Film Award (), also known as Lola after its prize statuette, is the national film award of Germany. It is presented at an annual ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the German film industry. Besides being the most important ...

'' (the

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of Germany) for editing, as well as the ACE Eddie nomination. Since ''Run Lola Run'', Bonnefoy has edited several more films with Tykwer and with the director

Wim Wenders Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer. He is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Doc ...

. Her editing of Tykwer's film ''

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'' (2010) won her a second ''Deutscher Filmpreis''. In recent years she has also directed and edited films for German television. Bonnefoy is credited as both the editor and as a producer for the 2014 documentary ''

'' that was directed by

. She earned

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for outstanding achievement in editing and the ACE Eddie Award for best edited documentary feature. She shared ''Citizenfours Best Documentary Oscar with her fellow producers Laura Poitras and Dirk Wilutzky, and was nominated for a third ''Deutscher Filmpreis'' for Best Editing for that film. In June 2015, Bonnefoy was announced as one of the 322 invitees to become a member of the

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that year. She was invited by both the Documentary branch, for her work on ''Citizenfour'' and '' Invisibles''; and by the Film Editing branch, for her work on ''Citizenfour'' and ''Run Lola Run''. The seven invitees who received invitations from multiple branches must select one branch on accepting membership. New members will be welcomed into the Academy at a closed reception in September 2015.

Filmography

This filmography of editing credits is based on the listing at the Internet Movie Database; the director of each film is indicated in parenthesis. * 1998: ''

'' (Tom Tykwer) * 2000: ''

The Princess and the Warrior ''The Princess and the Warrior'' (german: Der Krieger und die Kaiserin, lit=The Warrior and the Empress) is a 2000 German romantic drama film written and directed by Tom Tykwer. It follows the life of Sissi ( Franka Potente), a psychiatric hospi ...

'' (Tom Tykwer) * 2002: ''

Heaven Heaven or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside. According to the bel ...

'' (Tom Tykwer) * 2002: ''Twelve Miles to Trona'' (episode of the film '' Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet'') (Wim Wenders) * 2003: ''

The Soul of a Man ''The Soul of a Man'' is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Wim Wenders, as the second instalment of the documentary film series ''The Blues'', produced by Martin Scorsese. The film explores the musical careers of blues musicians Skip James, ...

'' (Wim Wenders) * 2004: ''True'' (short - Tom Tykwer) * 2006: '' The Favor'' (

Eva S. Aridjis Eva Aridjis is a Mexican-American filmmaker. She attended the American School Foundation in Mexico City, Princeton University, and New York University. She has made many prize-winning short and feature-length films. Early life and educatio ...

) * 2007: '' Invisibles'' (segment "Invisible Crimes", directed by Wim Wenders) * 2007: ''

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'' (

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) * 2009: '' The International'' (Tom Tykwer) * 2010: ''

Orly Orly () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the center of Paris. The name of Orly came from Latin ''Aureliacum'', "the villa of Aurelius". Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the co ...

'' (

Angela Schanelec Angela Schanelec (; born 14 February 1962) is a German actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film '' Places in Cities'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. At the 69th Berlin International Fil ...

) * 2010: ''

'' (Tom Tykwer) * 2014: ''

'' (

); Bonnefoy was also a producer for this documentary film.

Filmography

See also

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