Frank J. Urioste

Frank Joseph Urioste (born 1938) is an American film editor with about 30 film credits. He has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Film Editing, for RoboCop (directed by Paul Verhoeven-1987), Die Hard (directed by John McTiernan-1988), and Basic Instinct (directed by Paul Verhoeven-1992).

In addition to his work as an editor, Urioste served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1994 to 1997. Since 1998, Urioste has served as Senior Vice President in the Feature Development department at Warner Bros. Pictures.

Urioste has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors, and he received the organization's Career Achievement Award in 2007.

Filmography

The director and release year for each film are indicated in parenthesis.

1. What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (Katzin-1969)
2. The Grissom Gang (Aldrich-1971)
3. Get to Know Your Rabbit (De Palma-1972)
4. The Hoax (1972)
5. The Spikes Gang (1974)
6. Midway (Smight-1976)
7. Damnation Alley (Smight-1977)
8. The Boys in Company C (Furie-1978)
9. Fast Break (Smight-1979)
10. Loving Couples (Smight-1980)
11. The Entity (Furie-1981)
12. Amityville 3-D (Fleischer-1983)
13. Trenchcoat (Tuchner-1983)
14. Conan the Destroyer (Fleischer-1984)
15. Red Sonja (Fleischer-1985)
16. The Hitcher (Harmon-1986)
17. RoboCop (Verhoeven-1987)
18. Die Hard (McTiernan-1988)
19. Road House (Herrington-1989)
20. Total Recall (Verhoeven-1990)
21. Basic Instinct (Verhoeven-1992)
22. Tombstone (Cosmatos-1993)
23. Cliffhanger (Harlin-1993)
24. Terminal Velocity (Sarafian-1994)
25. Cutthroat Island (Harlin-1995)
26. Executive Decision (Baird--1996)
27. Conspiracy Theory (Donner-1997)
28. Lethal Weapon 4 (Donner-1998)
29. Deep Blue Sea (Harlin-1999)
30. The Thing (Heijningen-2011) (add'l editor)

External links

• Frank J. Urioste at IMDb
• Honess, Peter (July/August 2001 issue). "Peter Honess & Frank Urioste: Two Long-Time Friends Talk About Their Work, Part I". Editors Guild Magazine. Archived from the original on 2008-07-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Honess, Peter (September/October 2001). "Peter Honess & Frank Urioste: Two Long-Time Friends Talk About Their Work, Part II". Editors Guild Magazine. Archived from the original on 2008-07-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)