Robert J. Kern
Robert J. Kern | |
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Born | March 29, 1885 |
Died | May 30, 1972 |
Occupation | Film editor |
Robert James Kern (March 29, 1885 – May 30, 1972) was an American film editor with more than sixty feature film credits.[1] He is known for editing National Velvet (1944), which won him the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.[2] National Velvet was one of thirteen films that Kern edited with director Clarence Brown. He also made seven films with director W. S. Van Dyke, including three of the Thin Man series. Kern was nominated for the Academy Award for David Copperfield (1935), which was directed by George Cukor.
His brother, Hal C. Kern, was also a film editor. As of 2017, they are the only instance of two brothers both winning an Academy Award for Best Editing. Hal Kern won for Gone with the Wind (1939).[3]
Selected filmography
- Bachelor's Paradise (1928)
- George Washington Cohen (1928)
- The Tragedy of Youth (1928)
See also
- List of film director and editor collaborations (with Clarence Brown)
References
External links
- Robert J. Kern at IMDb
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- Conrad A. Nervig (1934)
- Ralph Dawson (1935)
- Ralph Dawson (1936)
- Gene Havlick and Gene Milford (1937)
- Ralph Dawson (1938)
- Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (1939)
- Anne Bauchens (1940)
- William Holmes (1941)
- Daniel Mandell (1942)
- George Amy (1943)
- Barbara McLean (1944)
- Robert J. Kern (1945)
- Daniel Mandell (1946)
- Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish (1947)
- Paul Weatherwax (1948)
- Harry W. Gerstad (1949)
- Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig (1950)
- William Hornbeck (1951)
- Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad (1952)
- William Lyon (1953)
- Gene Milford (1954)
- Charles Nelson and William Lyon (1955)
- Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax (1956)
- Peter Taylor (1957)
- Adrienne Fazan (1958)
- Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning (1959)
- Daniel Mandell (1960)
- Thomas Stanford (1961)
- Anne V. Coates (1962)
- Harold F. Kress (1963)
- Cotton Warburton (1964)
- William Reynolds (1965)
- Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo (1966)
- Hal Ashby (1967)
- Frank P. Keller (1968)
- Françoise Bonnot (1969)
- Hugh S. Fowler (1970)
- Gerald B. Greenberg (1971)
- David Bretherton (1972)
- William Reynolds (1973)
- Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress (1974)
- Verna Fields (1975)
- Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad (1976)
- Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (1977)
- Peter Zinner (1978)
- Alan Heim (1979)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (1980)
- Michael Kahn (1981)
- John Bloom (1982)
- Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart (1983)
- Jim Clark (1984)
- Thom Noble (1985)
- Claire Simpson (1986)
- Gabriella Cristiani (1987)
- Arthur Schmidt (1988)
- David Brenner and Joe Hutshing (1989)
- Neil Travis (1990)
- Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991)
- Joel Cox (1992)
- Michael Kahn (1993)
- Arthur Schmidt (1994)
- Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley (1995)
- Walter Murch (1996)
- Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris (1997)
- Michael Kahn (1998)
- Zach Staenberg (1999)
- Stephen Mirrione (2000)
- Pietro Scalia (2001)
- Martin Walsh (2002)
- Jamie Selkirk (2003)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (2004)
- Hughes Winborne (2005)
- Thelma Schoonmaker (2006)
- Christopher Rouse (2007)
- Chris Dickens (2008)
- Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009)
- Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2010)
- Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2011)
- William Goldenberg (2012)
- Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013)
- Tom Cross (2014)
- Margaret Sixel (2015)
- John Gilbert (2016)
- Lee Smith (2017)
- John Ottman (2018)
- Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019)
- Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (2020)
- Joe Walker (2021)
- Paul Rogers (2022)
- Jennifer Lame (2023)
- Best Film Editing became Best Editing in 1999