Lee Smith

Lee Smith, ACE, earned Academy Award®, BAFTA Award and A.C.E. Eddie Award nominations for his work on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, and a BAFTA Award nomination for his work on Nolan's Inception. He and Nolan have also collaborated on Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight Rises, and Interstellar.

Smith has also enjoyed a long association with director Peter Weir, earning an Academy Award® nomination for his editing work on Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, for which he also received a BAFTA and Eddie Award nomination. Smith reunited with Weir for the fact-based drama The Way Back. He had earlier served as editor and sound designer on Weir's The Truman Show, Fearless and Green Card; an additional editor on Dead Poets Society; and an associate editor and sound designer on The Year of Living Dangerously, which began their collaboration.

Hailing from Australia, Smith won an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Editing on Gregor Jordan's Two Hands, on which he was also the sound designer. As a sound designer, he also won an AFI Award and earned a BAFTA Award nomination for his work on Jane Campion's The Piano, and won an AFI Award for Phillip Noyce's Dead Calm.

Smith's credits as an editor also include Ender's Game, Elysium, X-Men: First Class, The Rage in Placid Lake, Black and White, Buffalo Soldiers, Risk, Joey, RoboCop 2, Communion, and Howling III.

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