Ralph E. Winters (June 17, 1909 - February 26, 2004), born in Canada, was one of the industry's leading film editors. Events 1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II ( The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Film editing is an art of storytelling practiced by connecting two or more shots together to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an
After cutting his teeth on a series of B movies in the early 40s, including several in the Dr. Kildare series, his first "big" film was George Cukor's Victorian chiller Gaslight in 1944. A B movie is a motion picture made on a low or modest budget Originally the term was used for films intended for distribution as the less-publicized second half of a Double Dr James Kildare is a Fictional character, the primary character in a series of American theatrical Films in the late 1930s and early 1940s an early 1950s George Dewey Cukor ( July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an Academy Award -winning American Film director. This article is about the 1944 film Gaslight For the 1940 release see Gaslight.
Winters is the winner of two Academy Awards (for King Solomon's Mines in 1950 and Ben-Hur in 1959) and four other nominations (for Quo Vadis in 1951, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1954, The Great Race in 1965 and Kotch in 1971). "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. King Solomon's Mines ( 1950) is an Adventure film loosely based of the 1885 novel by the same name by Henry Rider Haggard Ben-Hur (or Benhur is a 1959 Movie directed by William Wyler, and is the third film version of Lew Wallace 's novel Ben-Hur Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a Screenplay by Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a Musical film released in 1954. The Great Race is a 1965 Slapstick comedy movie directed by Blake Edwards, written by Blake Edwards and Arthur A Kotch is a 1971, Oscar -nominated comedy film which tells the story of an elderly man who runs away so as not to be put into a nursing home and strikes Winters also cut together such leading films as On the Town (1949), High Society (1956), Jailhouse Rock (1957) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). On the Town is a 1949 movie musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and Lyrics by Betty High Society ( 1956) is Musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in VistaVision and Technicolor with music and lyrics Jailhouse Rock is an American Motion picture directed by Richard Thorpe, released by MGM on November 8, 1957 The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1968 movie by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway.
He was Blake Edwards' editor on twelve films made over twenty years, from The Pink Panther (1963) to Micki + Maude (1984). Blake Edwards (born July 26, 1922) is an Academy Award -winning American Film director, Screenwriter, and producer The Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, is a Comedy film, starring David Niven Micki + Maude ( 1984) is a Comedy film starring Dudley Moore as Rob Salinger an overworked television reporter Some of the other films on which they worked together were The Party (1968), 10 (1979) and Victor/Victoria (1982). The Party (alternative title " Hollywood Party " is a 1968 comedy written and directed by Blake Edwards, ---- Victor/Victoria is a 1982 Musical comedy film which involves Transvestism and Sexual identity as central themes [1]
His last film was the ill-fated pirate epic Cutthroat Island in 1995. Cutthroat Island is a 1995 Pirate -themed Action film starring Geena Davis and directed by her then-husband Renny Harlin
In 1991, Winters received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. The American Cinema Editors (ACE gives one or more Career Achievement Awards each year In 2001, Winters published his memoir, Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor. [2]
External links and references
- ^ "Ralph Winters, Film Editor, 94; Did Ben Hur", The New York Times March 12, 2004. Webpage retrieved 2008-03-09.
- ^ Winters, Ralph E. (2001). Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor (Scarecrow Press) ISBN 978-0810840249.
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