Alan Heim
American film editor (born 1936)
title: "Alan Heim" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1936-births", "living-people", "american-cinema-editors", "american-film-editors", "best-editing-bafta-award-winners", "best-film-editing-academy-award-winners", "mass-media-people-from-the-bronx", "american-cinema-editors-career-achievement-award-winners"] description: "American film editor (born 1936)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Heim" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary American film editor (born 1936) ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox person"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| image | The Oscar winning Editor, Hollywood, Alan Heim at the Master Class on Film Editing, during the 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2016), in Panaji, Goa on November 27, 2016.jpg |
| caption | Heim in Panaji, Goa, India, 2016 |
| name | Alan Heim |
| other_names | Allan Heim |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| occupation | Film editor |
| years_active | 1963–present |
| :: |
| image = The Oscar winning Editor, Hollywood, Alan Heim at the Master Class on Film Editing, during the 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2016), in Panaji, Goa on November 27, 2016.jpg | caption = Heim in Panaji, Goa, India, 2016 | imagesize = | name = Alan Heim | other_names = Allan Heim | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = The Bronx, New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Film editor | years_active = 1963–present | spouse = | children = Alan Heim, ACE (born May 21, 1936) is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award for editing All That Jazz (1979).
Biography
Heim was born in the Bronx, New York.
He has more than thirty feature-film credits to his name, and has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Heim has also served as President of the ACE organization and as President of the Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG), the IATSE union that represents film editors, sound mixers and post-production craftspeople.
Heim had an extended collaboration with director Bob Fosse. For his work on All That Jazz (1979), Heim received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. All That Jazz is the fourth best-edited film of all time on a 2012 list compiled by the Motion Picture Editors Guild, and Edward Ländler wrote a summary of the editing for that listing.
Selected filmography
::data[format=table title="Editor"]
| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | The Sea Gull | Sidney Lumet | Fourth collaboration with Sidney Lumet |
| 1970 | Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | Fifth collaboration with Sidney Lumet | |
| The Twelve Chairs | Mel Brooks | Second collaboration with Mel Brooks | |
| 1971 | Doc | Frank Perry | |
| 1973 | Godspell | David Greene | |
| 1974 | Lenny | Bob Fosse | First collaboration with Bob Fosse |
| 1976 | Network | Sidney Lumet | Sixth collaboration with Sidney Lumet |
| 1979 | Hair | Miloš Forman | First collaboration with Miloš Forman |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | Second collaboration with Bob Fosse | |
| 1981 | The Fan | Edward Bianchi | |
| So Fine | Andrew Bergman | ||
| 1983 | Star 80 | Bob Fosse | Third collaboration with Bob Fosse |
| 1985 | Goodbye, New York | Amos Kollek | |
| Beer | Patrick Kelly | ||
| 1988 | She's Having a Baby | John Hughes | |
| Funny Farm | George Roy Hill | ||
| 1989 | Valmont | Miloš Forman | Second collaboration with Miloš Forman |
| 1990 | Quick Change | ||
| 1991 | Billy Bathgate | Robert Benton | |
| 1993 | Dennis the Menace | Nick Castle | |
| 1995 | Copycat | Jon Amiel | |
| 1997 | Leave It to Beaver | Andy Cadiff | |
| 1998 | American History X | Tony Kaye | |
| 2000 | Bless the Child | Chuck Russell | |
| 2002 | The Adventures of Pluto Nash | Ron Underwood | |
| 2003 | Carolina | Marleen Gorris | |
| 2004 | The Notebook | Nick Cassavetes | First collaboration with Nick Cassavetes |
| 2006 | Alpha Dog | Second collaboration with Nick Cassavetes | |
| 2007 | The Last Mimzy | Robert Shaye | |
| 2009 | My Sister's Keeper | Nick Cassavetes | Third collaboration with Nick Cassavetes |
| 2010 | Janie Jones | David M. Rosenthal | |
| 2012 | Bless Me, Ultima | Carl Franklin | |
| 2013 | Gods Behaving Badly | Marc Turtletaub | |
| 2014 | The Other Woman | Nick Cassavetes | Fourth collaboration with Nick Cassavetes |
| 2015 | I Saw the Light | Marc Abraham | |
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Editorial department"]
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Bloodhounds of Broadway | Howard Brookner | Editorial consultant |
| 1996 | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Barbra Streisand | Additional editor |
| 2004 | The Alamo | John Lee Hancock | Additional film editor |
| 2008 | Forever Plaid: The Movie | Stuart Ross | Supervising editor |
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Actor"]
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | Eddie | |
| 2013 | Return to Babylon | Alex Monty Canawati | Landlord | Scenes deleted |
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Music department"]
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | The Fat Spy | Joseph Cates | Music editor |
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Sound department"]
| Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | Sound editor | First collaboration with Sidney Lumet |
| 1966 | The Group | Second collaboration with Sidney Lumet | ||
| The Fat Spy | Joseph Cates | Sound effects editor | ||
| 1967 | The Producers | Mel Brooks | Sound editor | First collaboration with Mel Brooks |
| 1968 | Bye Bye Braverman | Sidney Lumet | Third collaboration with Sidney Lumet | |
| Rachel, Rachel | Paul Newman | |||
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Thanks"]
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Red Machine | Special thanks | |
| :: |
Documentaries
::data[format=table title="Editorial department"]
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Festival | Murray Lerner | Associate editor |
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Producer"]
| Year | Film | Director | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing | Wendy Apple | Executive producer: TCEP |
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Sound department"]
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | The Eleanor Roosevelt Story | Richard Kaplan | Sound effects editor |
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Thanks"]
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | It Takes a Cult | Eric Johannsen | Thanks |
| 2017 | The Fabulous Allan Carr | Jeffrey Schwarz | Special thanks |
| :: |
TV documentaries
::data[format=table title="Editorial department"]
| Year | Film | Director | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Pretty Things | Liz Goldwyn | Supervising editor |
| :: |
TV movies
::data[format=table title="Editor"]
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | The Silence | Joseph Hardy |
| 1978 | Holocaust | Marvin J. Chomsky |
| 1986 | Nobody's Child | Lee Grant |
| 1999 | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Martha Coolidge |
| 2008 | Skip Tracer | Stephen Frears |
| 2009 | Grey Gardens | Michael Sucsy |
| :: |
TV series
::data[format=table title="Editor"]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Holocaust | 2 episodes |
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Music department"]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963−64 | East Side West Side | Music editor | 13 episodes |
| 1964 | Mr. Broadway | 2 episodes | |
| :: |
::data[format=table title="Sound department"]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | The Nurses | Sound effectsSound effects editor | 5 episodes |
| 1963−64 | East Side West Side | Sound editorSound effects editorSound mixer | 8 episodes |
| 1964 | Mr. Broadway | Sound effects editor | 2 episodes |
| 1966 | ABC Stage 67 | Sound editor | 1 episode |
| :: |
TV specials
::data[format=table title="Editor"]
| Year | Film | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Liza with a Z | Bob Fosse | Concert film |
| :: |
Awards and nominations
- 2012 - CameraImage Special Award - Lifetime Achievement award "Editor with Unique Visual Sensitivity"
- 2010 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner - "Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television" - Grey Gardens (2009) (Shared with editor Lee Percy)
- 2009 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie" - Grey Gardens (2009) (shared with editor Lee Percy)
- 2000 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner - "Best Edited Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television" - Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
- 2000 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special" Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
- 1981 - BAFTA Award winner - "Best Editing" - All That Jazz
- 1980 - Academy Award winner - "Best Film Editing" - All That Jazz
- 1980 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner "Best Edited Feature Film" - All That Jazz
- 1979 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award nominee - "Best Edited Episode from a Television Mini-Series" - Holocaust TV series (shared with editors Stephen A. Rotter, and Brian Smedley-Aston)
- 1978 - BAFTA Award nomination - "Best Film Editing" - Network
- 1978 - Primetime Emmy Winner - "Outstanding Film Editing in a Drama Series Holocaust TV series (shared with editors Stephen A. Rotter, Robert M. Reitano, Craig McKay, and Brian Smedley-Aston)
- 1977 - Academy Award nomination "Best Film Editing" - Network
- 1977 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award nominee "Best Edited Feature Film" - Network
- 1973 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Entertainment Programming for a Special or Feature Length Program of a Series" Liza with a Z (1972)
References
References
- [http://americancinemaeditors.org/board-of-directors/] American Cinema Editors (ACE) Official website
- [https://www.editorsguild.com/Directors.cfm] Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG) Official website
- (May 1, 2012). "The 75 Best Edited Films". Editors Guild Magazine.
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::