Mark Goldblatt

Known for Editing

Mark Goldblatt is an Academy Award-nominated American film editor and film director and president emeritus of the American Cinema Editors. Brooklyn-born Goldblatt studied at the University of Wisconsin and London Film School, where his instructors included Mike Leigh, Clive Donner, and Frank Clarke. Upon his return to the United States, Goldblatt observed Alfred Hitchcock on the set of one of his final films, Family Plot, and became a PA at Roger Corman's New World Pictures, where he worked with up-and-coming filmmakers including Joe Dante and Ron Howard. Corman's then-assistant, Gale Ann Hurd, connected Goldblatt with James Cameron, which led to their collaboration on mainstream hits including The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day (for which Goldblatt received an Oscar nomination), and True Lies. Lies led to collaborations with Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbour, Bad Company, Bad Boys II) and Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, Hollow Man, and Starship Troopers). Goldblatt's additional credits include Rambo: First Blood Part II, Commando, Predator 2, X-Men: The Last Stand, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Chappie, and Death Wish. He also directed The Punisher and Dead Heat. Goldblatt describes the best part of being an editor as, "Being able to create something out of a given set of filmed material that seems to be greater than the sum of its parts. By this I mean subtext and grace and counterpoint of characters (and performances) that comes out of a dialectical montage." He is a member and former vice president and president of the American Cinema Editors (or ACE Society) as well as a long-standing member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2018, Goldblatt became an ACE Career Achievement Awards honouree. He is the father of actor, director, and editor Max Goldblatt. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Goldblatt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers'

The Terminator

Eerie, Indiana

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Spirit of the Wind

RoboCop

Starship Troopers

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

True Lies

Pearl Harbor

Chappie

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

In Search of Tomorrow

Armageddon

The Last Boy Scout

Detroit Rock City

Innerspace

Bad Boys II

Commando

Rambo: First Blood Part II

X-Men: The Last Stand

The Huntsman: Winter's War

Death Wish

Halloween II

The Howling

Case 39

Foxtrot Six

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Nightbreed

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Predator 2

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Dead Heat

The Wolfman

Hollow Man

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'

Piranha

Wavelength

The Punisher

Humanoids from the Deep

G-Force

Eat My Dust

Bad Company

Showgirls