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Stephen Mirrione (born February 19, 1969 in Santa Clara County, California) is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award for his editing of the film Traffic (2000).
Mirrione attended Bellarmine College Preparatory and then the University of California, Santa Cruz, from which he received his bachelor's degree in 1991.[1] He moved to Los Angeles, and began a collaboration with Doug Liman, who was then a graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Mirrione edited Liman's first feature films Getting In (1994), Swingers (1996), and Go (1999), which was an homage to Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon.[2]
The director Steven Soderbergh attended the opening of Go and met Mirrione. About one year later he asked Mirrione to edit Traffic (2000),[2] which earned Mirrione an Oscar. Mirrione subsequently edited all three of the Ocean's films directed by Soderbergh and starring George Clooney (Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), and Ocean's Thirteen (2007)).
Mirrione won an American Cinema Editors "Eddie" Award in 2006 for his editing of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's film Babel, for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award. He has been nominated four times for BAFTA Awards for editing Traffic, 21 grams (also directed by Inarritu - 2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (directed by George Clooney-2006), and for Babel.
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