John Ottman

John Ottman born July 6 1964 is an American film composer director and editor He is best known for collaborating with director Bryan Singer composing andor editing many of his films including Public Access 1993 The Usual Suspects 1995 Superman Returns 2006 Valkyrie 2008 and Jack the Giant Slayer 2013 as well as the XMen film series For his work on Singers 2018 Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody Ottman won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing Ottman was born in San Diego California Growing up in San Jose Ottman made many amateur films garnering local attention in the community He attended De Anza College and then transferred to the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California where he graduated in 1988 One of his first assignments was to provide original music for the computer game I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream In 2007 Ottman appeared in the documentary Finding Kraftland for his agent Richard Kraft He is best known for his multitasking as editor and composer for Bryan Singers films and on a few occasions producer roles to boot The Usual Suspects Apt Pupil X2 Superman Returns including adapting themes originally composed by John Williams Valkyrie Jack the Giant Slayer XMen Days of Future Past and XMen Apocalypse Other notable films he worked on as a composer are Snow White A Tale of Terror the 2005 remake of House of Wax Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Fantastic Four and its sequel Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer The Invasion and Astro Boy He also directed in addition to editing and scoring the 2000 horror film Urban Legends Final Cut He won a BAFTA Award for Best Editing for The Usual Suspects as well as two Saturn Awards for Best Music for The Usual Suspects and Superman Returns In 2019 he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Editing and won the ACE Eddie Award and the Academy Award for his work on Bohemian Rhapsody a film Ottman saw through on his own after both directors departure Bryan Singer being fired and Dexter Fletcher beginning preproduction on Rocketman shortly after finishing the shoot Ottman navigated the films development in post and the tricky waters between the filmmaker and studio working with producer Graham King and Dennis OSullivan Upon Bohemian Rhapsody getting nominated for and winning its Best Editing awards a scene of the band outside a pub went viral online after a post by Youtuber Thomas Flight who was critical of the editing style Ottman aware of the clip explained that for a test screening a heightened pace for the first act was asked for by the studio After the test Ottman returned the scene to its original pace and design Ottman regretted that he missed returning the scene outside the pub closer to his original version The scene directed by Fletcher contained no master shot of the band at the table Description above from the Wikipedia article John Ottman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia