Billy Weber

American film editor

Billy Weber
Born	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Film editor, film director
Years active	1973–present

Billy Weber is an American film editor with several film credits dating from Days of Heaven (1978).^[1]

One of Weber's first editing roles was as associate editor (as William Weber) on Terrence Malick's first feature as a director, Badlands (1973). Badlands was edited by Robert Estrin; Weber edited Malick's next film Days of Heaven (1978). When Malick returned to film directing twenty years later with The Thin Red Line (1998); he once again hired Weber to edit it, along with Leslie Jones and Saar Klein. While Weber did not edit Malick's next film The New World, he was an associate producer on the project. Most recently, Weber was one of five collaborating editors on Malick's fifth feature, The Tree of Life (2011).

Beyond this notable collaboration with Malick, Weber has edited Beverly Hills Cop (directed by Martin Brest, 1984), Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986) and Midnight Run (Brest, 1988).

Weber was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Top Gun; he was nominated again for an Academy Award, as well as for an ACE Eddie Award and the Satellite Award, for The Thin Red Line. Days of Heaven was listed as the 45th best-edited film of all time in a survey of the membership of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.^[2]

Weber has directed one film, Josh and S.A.M. (1993), that was produced by Martin Brest.

Filmography

Editor
Year	Film	Director	Notes
1973	Badlands	Terrence Malick	Uncredited First collaboration with Terrence Malick
1978	Days of Heaven	Terrence Malick	Second collaboration with Terrence Malick
1979	The Warriors	Walter Hill	First collaboration with Walter Hill
1982	Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again	Jerry Belson
1982	48 Hrs.	Walter Hill	Second collaboration with Walter Hill
1984	The House of God	Donald Wrye
	Iceman	Fred Schepisi
	Beverly Hills Cop	Martin Brest	First collaboration with Martin Brest
1985	Pee-wee's Big Adventure	Tim Burton	First collaboration with Tim Burton
1986	Top Gun	Tony Scott	First collaboration with Tony Scott
1987	Extreme Prejudice	Walter Hill	Third collaboration with Walter Hill
1987	Beverly Hills Cop II	Tony Scott	Second collaboration with Tony Scott
1988	Midnight Run	Martin Brest	Second collaboration with Martin Brest
1989	The Package	Andrew Davis
1990	Days of Thunder	Tony Scott	Third collaboration with Tony Scott
1991	Pure Luck	Nadia Tass
1995	Grumpier Old Men	Howard Deutch
1997	Murder at 1600	Dwight H. Little
1998	Bulworth	Warren Beatty	First collaboration with Warren Beatty
1998	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	Third collaboration with Terrence Malick
2000	Miss Congeniality	Donald Petrie
2002	Showtime	Tom Dey	Second collaboration with Tom Dey
2003	Gigli	Martin Brest	Third collaboration with Martin Brest
2006	Nacho Libre	Jared Hess
2006	Barnyard	Steve Oedekerk
2008	The Love Guru	Marco Schnabel
2010	Passion Play	Mitch Glazer
2011	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	Fifth collaboration with Terrence Malick
2016	Jack Reacher: Never Go Back	Edward Zwick
2016	Rules Don't Apply	Warren Beatty	Second collaboration with Warren Beatty
2018	The Predator	Shane Black
2019	American Skin	Nate Parker
2022	Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie	Andy Suriano Ant Ward

Editorial department
Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1973	Badlands	Terrence Malick	Associate editor
1973	Messiah of Evil	Willard Huyck Gloria Katz	Associate editor	First collaboration with Willard Huyck
1976	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese	Assistant editor
1984	Best Defense	Willard Huyck	Additional editor	Second collaboration with Willard Huyck
2000	Shanghai Noon	Tom Dey	Additional editor	First collaboration with Tom Dey
2012	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	Eric Darnell Conrad Vernon Tom McGrath	Editor

Director
Year	Film
1993	Josh and S.A.M.

Actor
Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1973	Messiah of Evil	Willard Huyck Gloria Katz	Supermarket Zombie	Uncredited

Second unit director or assistant director
Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1992	Batman Returns	Tim Burton	Second unit director	Second collaboration with Tim Burton

Producer
Year	Film	Director	Credit
2005	The New World	Terrence Malick	Associate producer	Fourth collaboration with Terrence Malick

Soundtrack
Year	Film	Director	Role
1947	Song of the Wasteland	Thomas Carr	Writer: "Somebody's Rose"

Thanks
Year	Film	Director	Role
1995	Virtuosity	Brett Leonard	Special thanks
2000	Gun Shy	Eric Blakeney
2003	Shanghai Knights	David Dobkin
2004	The Clearing	Pieter Jan Brugge
2004	The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie	Stephen Hillenburg
2005	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Garth Jennings	Thanks

References

^ Torgerson, Liv (May–June 1999). "Conversations with Billy Weber and Leslie Jones". Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter. 20 (3). Archived from the original on 2008-05-18.
^ "The 75 Best Edited Films". Editors Guild Magazine. 1 (3). May 2012. Archived from the original on 2015-03-17.