Peter Honess

Peter Honess (born 1946) is an English film editor with more than thirty film credits dating from 1973.[1] Honess received the 1997 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for his work on L.A. Confidential.

Peter Honess
Born	8 August 1946 London, England
Nationality	British
Education	Queen's College, Taunton
Occupation	Film editor
Awards	BAFTA

Biography

Honess was educated at Queen's College, Taunton from 1956-1963.[2] He then became an apprentice editor at the United Kingdom branch of MGM, where his father was working. He moved to the United States in 1971, where he received his first editing credit for It's Alive! (1974), a cult horror film about a couple that become parents of a monster baby.[3] When Honess returned to the United Kingdom, he was again employed as an assistant editor. In all, Honess spent fifteen years as an assistant. Honess acknowledges the mentoring by British editors Tony Gibbs (Tom Jones) and Thelma Connell (Alfie), "Thelma was quite an extraordinary woman. I was absorbed by how she edited. She cut very, very fast. That was also true of Tony. He'd cut the film in his head at dailies."[3] After a ten-year hiatus, Honess was hired to edit the films Memed, My Hawk (1984) and Champion (1984), and thereafter he has worked regularly as an editor.

Honess's recent filmography includes Rob Roy (1995), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Next Best Thing (2000), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Troy (2004), Aeon Flux (2005), Poseidon (2006), The Golden Compass (2007), I Love You, Beth Cooper (2008), Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2009), Burlesque (Cher's performance - 2010), Romeo & Juliet (2012), and Words and Pictures (2013).

Awards

Honess was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for documentary editing for Following the Tundra Wolf (1974).[1] In addition to its BAFTA Award for Best Editing, L. A. Confidential was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing, an ACE Eddie Award, and the Satellite Award. The film was also included in a 2012 listing of the 75 best edited films of all time compiled by the Motion Picture Editors Guild based on a survey of its members.[4] Honess has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.[5]

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1973	Hell Up in Harlem	Larry Cohen	Co-edited with Franco Guerri
1974	It's Alive
1979	Yesterday's Hero	Neil Leifer	Assistant editor
1980	The Dogs of War	John Irvin
1981	Ragtime	Miloš Forman
1983	The Hunger	Tony Scott
1984	Champions	John Irvin
	Memed, My Hawk	Peter Ustinov
	Electric Dreams	Steve Barron
1985	Plenty	Fred Schepisi
1986	Highlander	Russell Mulcahy
1987	The Believers	John Schlesinger
1988	Madame Sousatzka
1989	Next of Kin	John Irvin
1990	The Russia House	Fred Schepisi
1991	Ricochet	Russell Mulcahy
1992	Mr. Baseball	Fred Schepisi
1993	The Real McCoy	Russell Mulcahy
	Six Degrees of Separation	Fred Schepisi
1994	The Shadow	Russell Mulcahy	Co-edited with Beth Jochem Besterveld
1995	Rob Roy	Michael Caton-Jones
1996	Eye for an Eye	John Schlesinger
1997	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson	BAFTA Award for Best Editing Nominated — Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated — ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Film Editing
1998	Mercury Rising	Harold Becker
2000	The Next Best Thing	John Schlesinger
	Disney's The Kid	Jon Turteltaub	Co-edited with David Rennie
2001	The Fast and the Furious	Rob Cohen
	Domestic Disturbance	Harold Becker
2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Chris Columbus
2004	Troy	Wolfgang Petersen
2005	Æon Flux	Karyn Kusama	Co-edited with Plummy Tucker
2006	Poseidon	Wolfgang Petersen
2007	The Golden Compass	Chris Weitz	Co-edited with Anne V. Coates and Kevin Tent
2009	I Love You, Beth Cooper	Chris Columbus
2010	Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2013	Words and Pictures	Fred Schepisi
	Romeo & Juliet	Carlo Carlei

References

1. Peter Honess at IMDb
2. "Member Search" Archived 14 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Oldqueenians.com website. Information retrieved 2008-07-13.
3. "Fine Cuts", The Hollywood Reporter, 1 March 2000.
4. "The 75 Best Edited Films". Editors Guild Magazine. 1 (3). May 2012. Archived from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
5. "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 4 March 2008.

Further reading

• Honess, Peter; Urioste, Frank (July–August 2001). "Peter Honess & Frank Urioste: Two Long-Time Friends Talk About Their Work, Part I". Editors Guild Magazine. Archived from the original on 13 July 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2008.
• Honess, Peter; Urioste, Frank (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 13 July 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
• Hogg, Trevor (30 May 2012). "Cutting Edge: A conversation with film editor Peter Honess". Flickering Myth.