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Ray Lovejoy

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Ray Lovejoy
Born(1939-02-18)18 February 1939
Died18 October 2001(2001-10-18) (aged 62)
United Kingdom
OccupationFilm editor

Ray Lovejoy (18 February 1939 – 18 October 2001) was a British film editor with about thirty editing credits.[1][2] He had a notable collaboration with director Peter Yates that extended over six films including The Dresser (1983), which was nominated for numerous BAFTA Awards and Academy Awards.

Lovejoy was an assistant to editor Anne V. Coates for films from The Horse's Mouth (1958) to Lawrence of Arabia (1962).[3] He was next an assistant to editor Anthony Harvey on Dr. Strangelove (1964), which was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Harvey subsequently became a director himself, and Kubrick promoted Lovejoy to be the editor for his subsequent film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).[4] Kubrick and Lovejoy next worked together on The Shining (1980); Kubrick worked with other editors for his two films from the 1970s.

Stephen Prince described Lovejoy's contributions to 1980s films as follows, "Ray Lovejoy cut Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and he worked again with Kubrick on The Shining and supplied that film with an entirely different--tenser, more foreboding--texture than the stately science-fiction film possesses. Lovejoy also proved adept at editing for blockbuster effect. His cutting in Aliens sustained that sequel's narrative momentum with a speed and tension that its predecessor did not have, and his editing on Batman finessed that film's gaping narrative problems by simply rushing past them."[5]

In 1987, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on the film Aliens (1986).[1] In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild published a list of the 75 best-edited films of all time based on a survey of its members. Two films edited by Lovejoy are on this listing. 2001: A Space Odyssey was listed nineteenth, and The Shining was listed as forty-fourth.[6]

Lovejoy died of a heart attack on 18 October 2001.

Filmography

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This filmography is based on the Internet Movie Database.[2]

Editor
Year Film Director Notes
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick Second collaboration with Stanley Kubrick
1972 The Ruling Class Peter Medak First collaboration with Peter Medak
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Second collaboration with Peter Medak
Fear Is the Key Michael Tuchner
1974 Little Malcolm Stuart Cooper
Ghost in the Noonday Sun Peter Medak Third collaboration with Peter Medak
1975 Never Too Young to Rock Dennis Abey
Side by Side Bruce Beresford
1980 The Shining Stanley Kubrick Third collaboration with Stanley Kubrick
1983 Krull Peter Yates First collaboration with Peter Yates
The Dresser Second collaboration with Peter Yates
1984 Sheena John Guillermin
1985 Eleni Peter Yates Third collaboration with Peter Yates
1986 Aliens James Cameron
1987 Suspect Peter Yates Fourth collaboration with Peter Yates
1988 The House on Carroll Street Fifth collaboration with Peter Yates
Homeboy Michael Seresin
1989 Batman Tim Burton
1990 Mister Frost Philippe Setbon
1991 Let Him Have It Peter Medak Fourth collaboration with Peter Medak
1992 Year of the Comet Peter Yates Sixth collaboration with Peter Yates
1993 A Far Off Place Mikael Salomon
1994 Monkey Trouble Franco Amurri
1995 Mrs. Munck Diane Ladd
Rainbow Bob Hoskins
1996 The Last of the High Kings David Keating
1997 Inventing the Abbotts Pat O'Connor
1998 Lost in Space Stephen Hopkins
1999 Running Free Sergei Bodrov First collaboration with Sergei Bodrov
2001 The Quickie Second collaboration with Sergei Bodrov
2002 Vacuums
Editorial department
Year Film Director Role Notes
1957 Time Lock Gerald Thomas Second assistant editor
Uncredited
1958 The Horse's Mouth Ronald Neame Assistant editor
1960 Tunes of Glory
1961 Don't Bother to Knock Cyril Frankel
1962 Lawrence of Arabia David Lean
1964 Dr. Strangelove Stanley Kubrick First collaboration with Stanley Kubrick
1965 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold Martin Ritt
Uncredited
Documentaries
Director
Year Film
1976 Radio 1 on the Road
Producer
Year Film Director Credit
1976 Radio 1 on the Road Himself Producer
TV series
Editor
Year Title Notes
1977 Space: 1999 1 episode
1996 Kindred: The Embraced

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Ray Lovejoy". Turner Classic Movies.
  2. ^ a b Ray Lovejoy at IMDb
  3. ^ Lewis, Kevin (March–April 2010). "COATES of Many Colors: The Varied Career of Anne V. Coates". Editors' Guild Magazine. 31 (2).
  4. ^ Lobrutto, Vince (1999), Stanley Kubrick: A Biography, Da Capo, p. 307, ISBN 978-0-306-80906-4. Reprint of 1997 edition.
  5. ^ Prince, Stephen (2002). A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow 1980-1989 (Volume 10 of History of the American cinema). University of California Press. p. 196.
  6. ^ "The 75 Best Edited Films". Editors Guild Magazine. 1 (3). May 2012. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015.
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