Jay Rabinowitz (editor)

Jay Rabinowitz is an ACE-certified American film editor and commercial editor (Lost Planet.)

Rabinowitz studied at the New York University where he graduated in 1984 at the undergraduate Cinema Studies program.[1] During the program he learned of a film in pre-production that needed an intern, which turned out to be Jim Jarmuschs, Down By Law.[1]

He has frequently worked with Jarmusch on films such as Dead Man, Coffee and Cigarettes, Year of the Horse, (for which Mr. Rabinowitz received an A.C.E. [American Cinema Editors] Award nomination) Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Broken Flowers or The Limits of Control.

His other credits as film editor include Mark Webber’s directorial debut Explicit Ills; Todd Haynes’ I'm Not There; Frank Oz’ The Stepford Wives; Adam Bhala Lough’s Bomb the System (for which he was honored with the Best Editing award at the Milan Film Festival) and Weapons_(film); and Curtis Hanson’s Academy Award-winning 8 Mile.

Mr. Rabinowitz’ editing for Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream was cited as the year’s best by the Phoenix Film Critics Society and the Online Film Critics Society; subsequently, the latter group cited his editing for Mr. Aronofsky’s The Fountain as the year’s best.

He also functioned as music editor on Explicit Ills; Bomb the System and Weapons; Big Bad Love; Requiem for a Dream; When Pigs Fly; and Mr. Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers, Coffee and Cigarettes, and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

For Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, he edited numerous episodes of the television series Oz and Homicide: Life on the Street. Mr. Rabinowitz worked with legendary photographer Robert Frank on the latter’s film Last Supper.

In the year 2000 Rabinowitz was awarded at the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing for his work on Requiem for a Dream and in 2011 for his work on The Tree of Life.[2]

Filmography

References

  1. 1 2 Jay Rabinowitz Finds that the Film Tells Him How to Edit It at editorsguild.com, access date 26 November 2012
  2. ↑ OFCS Awards 2011 at ofcs.org, access date 12 December 2012

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