Tariq Anwar (film editor)

Tariq Anwar (Urdu: طارق اںور‎; born 21 September 1945) is an Indian-born film editor whose credits include Center Stage, The Good Shepherd, Sylvia, Oppenheimer, and American Beauty, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won two BAFTA Awards. He has also been nominated for Academy Award in 2011 for editing The King's Speech. He is now based in the United States and England. With Shirley Hills, he is the father of actress Gabrielle Anwar.

Personal life

Anwar was born in Delhi, British India and was raised in Lahore and Bombay.^[1] His mother, Edith Reich, was an Austrian Jew, and his father was Indian film actor and director Rafiq Anwar.^[1] He moved with his mother to London after his parents divorced.^[1]

Filmography

• Oppenheimer (TV miniseries) (TV) (1980)
• The Madness of King George (1994)
• Fatherland (1994)
• The Grotesque (1995)
• The Crucible (1996)
• The Wings of the Dove (1997)
• The Object of My Affection (1998)
• Cousin Bette (1998)
• Tea with Mussolini (1999)
• American Beauty (1999)
• Center Stage (2000)
• Greenfingers (2000)
• Focus (2001)
• Alien Love Triangle (2002)
• Leo (2002)
• Sylvia (2003)
• Stage Beauty (2004)
• American Crude (2005)
• Alpha Male (2006)
• The Good Shepherd (2006)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• The Other Man (2008)
• Stephen Fry in America (documentary) (episodes 1 and 5) (2008)
• *Hussein Who Said No (2008-2014)
• Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
• The King's Speech (2010)
• Libertador (2013)
• The Lady in the Van (2015)

Awards and nominations

Awards

• 1980 - BAFTA Television Award for Best Film Editor: Oppenheimer
• 1999 - BAFTA Film Award for Best Editing: American Beauty

Nominations

• 1999 - Academy Award for Film Editing: American Beauty
• 2011 - Academy Award for Film Editing: The King's Speech

See also

• List of film director and editor collaborations

References

External links

• Tariq Anwar at the Internet Movie Database