John Gilroy

John M Gilroy born June 24 1959 is an American film editor whose work includes Michael Clayton The Bourne Legacy Warrior Pacific Rim Nightcrawler and Suicide Squad Gilroy was born in 1959 in Santa Monica California He is the son of Ruth Dorothy Gaydos a sculptor and writer and Frank D Gilroy a filmmaker He is the twin brother of screenwriterdirector Dan Gilroy and the brother of screenwriterdirector Tony Gilroy He has a daughter Carolyn born in 1990 John did not originally plan to enter the film industry He studied government at Dartmouth College with the intention of continuing on to attend law school but eventually decided to pursue a career in film rather than law He moved to New York City where he worked as a bartender for two years before landing his first job as an assistant editor under Rick Shaine on the 1984 adaptation of Herb Gardners play The Goodbye People He was an editorial assistant on several films made throughout the 1980s including Francis Ford Coppolas Peggy Sue Got Married 1986 and Gardens of Stone 1987 His first film as the primary editor was The Luckiest Man in the World 1989 which was written and directed by his father Gilroy also edited films including Billy Madison 1995 Shadow Magic 2000 Suspect Zero 2004 and Trust the Man 2005 He worked with his brother Tony Gilroy a screenwriter and director for the first time on Tonys film Michael Clayton 2007 The film received seven Academy Award nominations and Johns editing was nominated for a BAFTA Award and an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award John and Tony later collaborated on Duplicity 2009 and The Bourne Legacy 2012 In 2014 John worked with his other brother fraternal twin Dan Gilroy also a screenwriter and director as the editor of Nightcrawler for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing He has edited films for every member of his immediate familyhis father and both brothersexcept his mother7 He has also worked often with director Gavin OConnor and edited Phillip Noyces Salt 2010 and Guillermo del Toros Pacific Rim 2013 Description above from the Wikipedia article John Gilroy film editor licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia