Richard Pearson

Richard Pearson born 1961 is an American film editor who is mainly associated with action films Pearson with Clare Douglas and Christopher Rouse received the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film United 93 2006 Pearson was born in Minneapolis Minnesota and raised in New Hope Minnesota As a college student in the early 1980s Pearson was an intern at the television station WCCOTV in Minneapolis He moved to Hollywood in 1985 to pursue a career in the entertainment industry His first editing credit was for the television miniseries From the Earth to the Moon 1998 The 1968 episode of From the Earth to the Moon was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Eddie award Best Edited Episode from a Television MiniSeries and for an Emmy Award Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie Christopher Rouse Pearsons coeditor on The Bourne Supremacy and United 93 also worked on this miniseries Following an editing credit for the film Muppets from Space 1999 Pearson edited two films Bowfinger and The Score that were directed by Frank Oz who was Jim Hensons early collaborator in developing The Muppets United 93 was directed by Paul Greengrass who is particularly noted for films that are shot verité style as a detailed mass of hectic vignettesjagged jump cuts sudden blackouts overlapping everything The use of three editors Douglas Pearson and Rouse on United 93 was dictated by its short postproduction period less than six months passed between the start of filming and the release of the film Greengrass and Douglas had worked together quite successfully on the film Bloody Sunday 2002 Greengrass Pearson and Rouse had recently finished The Bourne Supremacy 2004 Despite the accelerated postproduction schedule for United 93 the editing was very successful Ellen Feldman has written an analysis of the films editing she notes that United 93 represents a complex editing feat with a structure based on parallel cutting combined with an edgy hypercranked Cinema Verité style a style that disorients us but doesnt prevent us from grasping lots of necessary exposition and identifying with many characters In addition to the BAFTA Award the editors were also nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing and for an ACE Eddie Award Pearson has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors Pearson was an editor of the James Bond film Quantum of Solace 2008 along with Matt Chessé He worked on Safe House 2012 He resides in California Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Pearson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia