Joel Cox

Known for EditingBorn 1942-04-02 (age 84)Los Angeles, California, USA

Joel Cox (born April 2, 1942) is an American film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood in 33 films. Cox has been working in film since appearing as a baby in Random Harvest (1942). He started in the mailroom at Warner Bros. in 1961. Rudi Fehr, a well-known editor and executive at Warner Bros., made Cox an apprentice editor about 3 years later. As was common in the era, Cox worked as an uncredited assistant for several years. His first credit as an assistant editor was for The Rain People, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and edited by Barry Malkin. His first credit as the editor was for Farewell, My Lovely (1975), which was directed by Dick Richards and co-edited by the veteran editor Walter A. Thompson. Cox had just finished working as Thompson's assistant on Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975), which was also directed by Richards. Cox worked on two more of Richards' films, March or Die (1977—as assistant editor) and Death Valley (1982). Cox has had a notable collaboration with Clint Eastwood that commenced with the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales, for which Cox was Ferris Webster's assistant. Cox and Webster were co-editors on The Gauntlet (1977) and on several more of Eastwood's subsequent films. Starting with Sudden Impact (1983), Cox became Eastwood's principal editor. Cox has been quoted as saying that, over their 30-year partnership, Eastwood has recut only a single scene that Cox put together. Gary D. Roach, who worked as Cox's assistant from the mid-1990s, became Cox's co-editor on Eastwood's films with Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). Cox's long streak editing each of Eastwood's films ended with Sully, which was edited by another of his former assistants, Blu Murray. In addition to his career in the film industry, since 2000 Cox and his family have owned and managed a vineyard and winery near Paso Robles, California. Cox won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Unforgiven. He has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors. On November 25, 2008, Clint Eastwood presented Cox the first Ignacy Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award, which is named in honour of the piano virtuoso who called Paso Robles home, at the first Paso Robles Digital Film Festival. He received a nomination for the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Changeling and for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for American Sniper. The 2008 Paso Robles Digital Film Festival provides a full filmography of Joel Cox as part of his Lifetime Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'

Prisoners

Gran Torino

Million Dollar Baby

Unforgiven

Mystic River

Changeling

The Bridges of Madison County

Richard Jewell

Letters from Iwo Jima

American Sniper

Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales

A Perfect World

The Blues

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

Escape from Alcatraz

The Wild Bunch

Invictus

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Juror #2

Trouble with the Curve

The Evolution of Clint Eastwood

The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

The Mule

Den of Thieves

Pale Rider

Flags of Our Fathers

Jersey Boys

All Eyez on Me

Heartbreak Ridge

Bird

Absolute Power

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

Grace Is Gone

Piano Blues

True Crime

The Enforcer

Space Cowboys

Farewell, My Lovely

J. Edgar

Sudden Impact

Walden

White Hunter, Black Heart

The Rain People