Mark Goldblatt

Mark Goldblatt is an American film editor and director and president emeritus of the American Cinema Editors Brooklynborn 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 Cormans New World Pictures where he worked with upandcoming filmmakers including Joe Dante and Ron Howard Cormans thenassistant 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 Harbor Bad Company Bad Boys II and Paul Verhoeven Showgirls Hollow Man and Starship Troopers Goldblatts additional credits include Rambo First Blood Part II Commando Predator 2 XMen 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 longstanding 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia