Jon Harris (film editor)

Jon Harris
Jon Harris
Born	11 July 1967 (age 57); Sheffield; Yorkshire; England
Nationality	English
Occupation(s)	Film editor; Director

Jon Harris (born 11 July 1967) is an Oscar nominated film editor and director.

Career

Jon Harris' first major work as a film editor was Guy Ritchie's Snatch (2000). Since then Harris has worked on three films for director Matthew Vaughn, Layer Cake (2004), Stardust (2007), and Kick-Ass (2010). He also edited Neil Marshall's The Descent (2005) for which he received a British Independent Film Award (BIFA) for Best Technical Achievement 2005. Harris then made his directorial debut with the sequel The Descent: Part 2 (2009).

In 2011 Harris was nominated for an Oscar and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for his editing work on Danny Boyle's 127 Hours (2010) and subsequently became a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

He then went on to edit James Watkins' The Woman In Black (2012) for Hammer Film Productions. The Woman In Black (2012) has become the most financially successful film in Hammer's history.

In 2013 Harris' editing credits include Danny Boyle's Trance (2013), Hossein Amini's The Two Faces of January (2014) and the YouTube documentary Christmas In A Day for Kevin MacDonald.

He is currently working again with Danny Boyle on the feature length first episode of new Channel 4 series Babylon.

Since 2013 Jon Harris has been a judge on the panel for the Norwich Film Festival.