Mike J. Nichols

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For the Academy Award winning film director, see Mike Nichols.

Mike J. Nichols is a film editor living in Santa Clarita, California and originally from Illinois.

Nichols has become a cult hero of sorts as "The Phantom Editor" who created a re-cut of George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, known as The Phantom Edit. According to the re-done scroll, the self-proclaimed "The Phantom Editor" [1] stated he re-edited a standard VHS version of "The Phantom Menace" into what he believed was "a much stronger version of the film" He also did an edit of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones called "Attack of the Phantom"^{[citation needed]} where he did the same, with additional commentary explaining his editing decisions.

He currently works in Los Angeles as both an editor and a post production supervisor. His editing credits include the Style network's "Foody Call" and the indie film, My Father's House.