David Bretherton
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Born | David L. Bretherton (1924-02-29)February 29, 1924 Los Angeles, California, United States |
Died | May 11, 2000(2000-05-11) (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, United States |
Awards | ACE Eddie 1972 Cabaret ACE Career Achievement 1995 |
David L. Bretherton (February 29, 1924 – May 11, 2000) was an American film editor with more than 40 credits for films released from 1954 to 1996.
Bretherton, the son of editor/director Howard Bretherton and actress Dorothea McEvoy, was born in Los Angeles. He served with the United States Air Force during World War II. After World War II, he joined the editing department at Twentieth Century-Fox, at first helping other editors, including Barbara McLean, Robert L. Simpson, Louis R. Loeffler, James B. Clark, William H. Reynolds, and, in later years, Dorothy Spencer and Hugh S. Fowler. His first project as a film editor was An Affair to Remember in 1954.[1] In 1995, Bretherton received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. Bretherton died of pneumonia in Los Angeles in 2000.
Bretherton's most noted work was the editing of the film Cabaret (1972), which was directed by Bob Fosse. Bretherton received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, an ACE Eddie Award, and a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for this film. In his 1972 review, Roger Greenspun gives some insight into Bretherton's achievement:
... the film has a musical part and a nonmusical part (except for Miss Minnelli, none of the major characters sings), and if you add this to the juxtaposition of private lives and public history inherent in the scheme of the Berlin Stories, you come up with a structure of extraordinary mechanical complexity. Since everything has to do with everything else and the Cabaret is always commenting on the life outside it, the film sometimes looks like an essay in significant crosscutting, or associative montage. Occasionally this fails; more often it works.[2]
Cabaret was listed as the 30th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.[3]
Filmography
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References
- ^ David Bretherton at Turner Classic Movies
- ^ Greenspun, Roger (February 14, 1972). "Liza Minnelli Stirs a Lively 'Cabaret'". The New York Times: 22.
- ^ "The 75 Best Edited Films". Editors Guild Magazine. 1 (3). May 2012. Archived from the original on 2015-03-17.
Further reading
- Pearlman, Karen (Spring 2009). "Cutting Rhythms in Chicago and Cabaret" (PDF). Cineaste. Vol. XXXIV, no. 2. p. 28.
External links
- David Bretherton at IMDb
- David Bretherton at TheOscarSite.com
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- Ralph Dawson (1935)
- Ralph Dawson (1936)
- Gene Havlick and Gene Milford (1937)
- Ralph Dawson (1938)
- Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (1939)
- Anne Bauchens (1940)
- William Holmes (1941)
- Daniel Mandell (1942)
- George Amy (1943)
- Barbara McLean (1944)
- Robert J. Kern (1945)
- Daniel Mandell (1946)
- Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish (1947)
- Paul Weatherwax (1948)
- Harry W. Gerstad (1949)
- Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig (1950)
- William Hornbeck (1951)
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- William Lyon (1953)
- Gene Milford (1954)
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- Thomas Stanford (1961)
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- Peter Zinner (1978)
- Alan Heim (1979)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (1980)
- Michael Kahn (1981)
- John Bloom (1982)
- Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart (1983)
- Jim Clark (1984)
- Thom Noble (1985)
- Claire Simpson (1986)
- Gabriella Cristiani (1987)
- Arthur Schmidt (1988)
- David Brenner and Joe Hutshing (1989)
- Neil Travis (1990)
- Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991)
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- Michael Kahn (1993)
- Arthur Schmidt (1994)
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- Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris (1997)
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- Zach Staenberg (1999)
- Stephen Mirrione (2000)
- Pietro Scalia (2001)
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- Jamie Selkirk (2003)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (2004)
- Hughes Winborne (2005)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (2006)
- Christopher Rouse (2007)
- Chris Dickens (2008)
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