Jamie Selkirk

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Jamie Selkirk
Born	?date? New Zealand
Occupation	film editor
Awards won Academy Awards Best Editing 2004 The Return of the King

See also: New Zealand Cinema and List of film director and editor collaborations

Jamie Selkirk is a film editor and producer who has worked primarily in New Zealand. He is particularly noted for his work on the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, which he co-produced with Peter Jackson. He received the Academy Award for Film Editing for the last film of the trilogy, The Return of the King (2004).^[1]

He began his work in the entertainment industry with the New Zealand Broadcasting Company. He moved to editorial as a trainee editor and began cutting newsreels, current affairs, documentaries, and dramas.^[2]

Jamie Selkirk has collaborated with Peter Jackson on the majority of his films, first as editor, sound editor, and postproduction supervisor for Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, and Heavenly Creatures (1994). Selkirk was both associate producer and editor for Jackson's Braindead (1996), and became a full producer (and editor) on The Frighteners (1996). Jackson and Selkirk are examples of New Zealand filmmakers who chose to remain in New Zealand despite international recognition for their work.

In addition to his work as a producer on the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Selkirk worked as the supervising editor for the first two episodes The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. John Gilbert and Michael Horton were nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for those episodes. Selkirk had once thought he would edit all three episodes himself; in the end, he edited only the third episode. In an interview Daniel Restuccio, he commented wryly, "I always liked that script best."^[3]

[edit] Filmography

• King Kong (2005) (editor)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (editor, co-producer)
• The Long and Short of It (co-producer)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (co-producer, supervising editor)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (co-producer, supervising editor)
• Wasted (1998) (executive producer)
• Larger than Life (1997) (producer)
• The Frighteners (1996) (producer, editor)
• Heavenly Creatures (1994) (editor)
• Jack Brown Genius (1994) (executive producer, editor)
• Braindead aka Dead Alive (1992) (associate producer, editor)
• Old Scores (1991) (editor)
• Meet the Feebles (1989) (editor)
• Bad Taste (1987) (editor)
• The Silent One (1984) (editor)
• Squeeze (1980) (editor)
• A Woman of Good Character (1980) (editor)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Jamie Selkirk at the Internet Movie Database

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