Peter Honess (born 1946) is an English

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with more than thirty film credits dating from 1973. Honess received the 1997 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for his work on '' L.A. Confidential''.

Biography

Honess was educated at Queen's College, Taunton from 1956 to 1963. He then became an apprentice editor at the United Kingdom branch of

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, where his father was working. He moved to the United States in 1971, where he received his first editing credit for '' It's Alive!'' (1974), a

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horror film about a couple that become parents of a monster baby."Fine Cuts", ''The Hollywood Reporter'', 1 March 2000. When Honess returned to the United Kingdom, he was again employed as an assistant editor. In all, Honess spent fifteen years as an assistant. Honess acknowledges the mentoring by British editors Tony Gibbs ('' Tom Jones'') and Thelma Connell ('' Alfie''), "Thelma was quite an extraordinary woman. I was absorbed by how she edited. She cut very, very fast. That was also true of Tony. He'd cut the film in his head at dailies." After a ten-year hiatus, Honess was hired to edit the films '' Memed, My Hawk'' (1984) and ''Champion'' (1984), and thereafter he has worked regularly as an editor. Honess's recent filmography includes '' Rob Roy'' (1995), '' L.A. Confidential'' (1997), '' The Next Best Thing'' (2000), '' The Fast and the Furious'' (2001), '' Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' (2002), ''

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'' (2006), '' The Golden Compass'' (2007), '' I Love You, Beth Cooper'' (2008), '' Percy Jackson and the Olympians'' (2009), ''

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's performance - 2010), '' Romeo & Juliet'' (2012), and '' Words and Pictures'' (2013).

Awards

Honess was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for documentary editing for ''Following the Tundra Wolf'' (1974). In addition to its BAFTA Award for Best Editing, ''L. A. Confidential'' was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing, an ACE Eddie Award, and the Satellite Award. The film was also included in a 2012 listing of the 75 best edited films of all time compiled by the Motion Picture Editors Guild based on a survey of its members. Honess has been elected to membership in the

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on 4 March 2008.

Biography

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