Zach Staenberg

Zach S. Staenberg, born August 1951,^[1] is a film editor best known for the Matrix Trilogy. Staenberg won an Academy Award and an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of The Matrix (1999). The Matrix films were written and directed by the Wachowskis, with whom Staenberg has had an extended collaboration dating from 1996.

Staenberg has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.^[2]

Filmography [edit]

The director and release-year of each film is given in parenthesis.

• Police Academy (Hugh Wilson-1984)
• Gotti (Robert Harmon-1996). Won ACE Eddie Award for "Best Edited Two-Hour Movie for Non-Commercial Television".
• Bound (Wachowskis-1996).
• The Matrix (Wachowskis-1999). Won Oscar for Best Editing.
• Antitrust (Peter Howitt-2001)
• The Matrix Reloaded (Wachowskis-2003).
• The Matrix Revolutions (Wachowskis-2003).
• The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (actor-2004)
• The Matrix: Path of Neo (videogame)^[3] (Wachowskis-2005).
• Lord of War (Andrew Niccol-2005).
• Mongol (Sergei Bodrov-2007).
• Speed Racer (Wachowskis-2008)
• City of Ember (Gil Kenan-2009; co-edited with Adam P. Scott)
• Bunraku (Guy Moshe-2010).
• In Time (Niccol-2011)
• Ender's Game (Gavin Hood-2013)

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• van Hook, Andrea (2004). "Zach Staenberg on The Matrix Trilogy", The Editors Guild Magazine Vol. 25, No. 1 (January–February 2005), archived at Webcite from this URL on 2008-05-05.
• Zach Staenberg at the Internet Movie Database

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