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Thelma Colbert Schoonmaker (born January 3, 1940) is an American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over forty years. She has edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull (1980), first working with Scorsese on his debut feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967). Schoonmaker has received seven Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, and has won three times—for Raging Bull (1980), The Aviator (2004), and The Departed (2006).
Schoonmaker was born in Algiers, French Algeria, the daughter of American parents, Thelma and Bertram Schoonmaker. Bertram, descended from the New York Schoonmaker family, was employed as an agent of the Standard Oil Company and worked extensively abroad. Thelma was raised in various countries, including on the Dutch-Caribbean island of Aruba.
Schoonmaker did not live in the United States until she was a teenager, in 1955, and was initially alienated and dumbfounded by American culture. Schoonmaker was interested in a career in international diplomacy and began attending Cornell University in 1957, where she studied political science and the Russian language. (She attended classes taught by Vladimir Nabokov.) When she graduated from Cornell in 1961, she began taking State Department tests in order to apply for positions in the U.S. government. Being politically inclined and opinionated, Schoonmaker expressed distaste for the South African policy of apartheid, a stance which did not sit well with those administering the State Department tests. In reaction to this experience, Schoonmaker switched gears and began taking a course in primitive art.
Martin Charles Scorsese (/skɔːrˈsɛsi/ or [skorˈseːze]; born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian, whose career spans more than 45 years. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Sicilian-American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption,machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict. Many of his films are also notable for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity.
Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinema history. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards.
Thelma is a female given name meaning "will, volition" in Greek. Note that although consonant with another female given name, Selma, the two are not synonymous.
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Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical black-and-white sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's memoir Raging Bull: My Story. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive and obsessive rage, sexual jealousy, and animalistic appetite destroyed his relationship with his wife and family. Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci as Joey, La Motta's well-intentioned brother and manager who tries to help Jake battle his inner demons, and Cathy Moriarty as his wife. The film features supporting roles from Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana and Frank Vincent.
Scorsese was initially reluctant to develop the project, though he eventually came to relate to La Motta's story. Schrader re-wrote Martin's first screenplay, and Scorsese and De Niro together made uncredited contributions thereafter. Pesci was an unknown actor prior to the film, as was Moriarty, who was suggested for her role by Pesci. During principal photography, each of the boxing scenes was choreographed for a specific visual style and De Niro gained approximately 60 pounds (27 kg) to portray La Motta in his later post-boxing years. Scorsese was exacting in the process of editing and mixing the film, expecting it to be his last major feature .
Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking. The term film editing is derived from the traditional process of working with film, but increasingly involves the use of digital technology.
The film editor works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is often referred to as the "invisible art" because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that he or she is not even aware of the editor's work. On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job of an editor isn’t simply to mechanically put pieces of a film together, cut off film slates, or edit dialogue scenes. A film editor must creatively work with the layers of images, story, dialogue, music, pacing, as well as the actors' performances to effectively "re-imagine" and even rewrite the film to craft a cohesive whole. Editors usually play a dynamic role in the making of a film. Sometimes, auteurist film directors edit their own films, for example Akira Kurosawa and the Coen Brothers.
She is the editing room Ginger Rogers to director Martin Scorsese's Fred Astaire. The Wolf of Wall Street is her 17th feature with Scorsese in a 47-year working relationship, during which time she has taken home 3 Oscars. She talks to David Poland about cutting Wolf, cutting down Wolf, and the process she and Scorsese have for taking down most of their films from 1st cut to release cut. Shot in New York City, at the Sikelia offices, in January 2014 Subscribe to DP/30 for more interviews: http://bit.ly/17Xg4Y1
Kate Winslet presenting the Oscar® for Film Editing to Thelma Schoonmaker for "The Departed" at the 79th Academy Awards in 2007.
13-Minute Clip of Martin Scorsese & Thelma Schoonmaker in the Editing Room (with director Michael Powell)
Fantastic 17-minute 1993 interview with Martin Scorsese's editor Thelma Schoonmaker. Also watch: 13-Minute Clip Of Martin Scorsese & Thelma Schoonmaker In The Editing Room: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow6NB4vxCfc&list;=UUtPx9e7WNFtvtHaAU6WqXlA
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A look over the most Influential editing techniques of Thelma Schoonmaker & Martin Scorsese.
EditFest NY 2010 "Cutting Yourself Out of a Corner" Part I with legendary Scorcese editor Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE. For more information go to www.editfest.com. Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE is an American film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over forty years. She has edited all of Scorsese's films since "Raging Bull" (1980), first working with Scorsese in his debut feature film "Who's That Knocking at My Door "(1967). Schoonmaker has received seven Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, and has won three times—for "Raging Bull" (1980), "The Aviator" (2004), and "The Departed" (2006). Manhattan Edit Workshop is a New York Film Editing School offering a full range of basic to advanced manufacturer certified training courses, from the Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate ...
Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker prep for music editing. Footage drawn from Pacific Street's MARTIN SCORSESE DIRECTS
She is the editing room Ginger Rogers to director Martin Scorsese's Fred Astaire. The Wolf of Wall Street is her 17th feature with Scorsese in a 47-year working relationship, during which time she has taken home 3 Oscars. She talks to David Poland about cutting Wolf, cutting down Wolf, and the process she and Scorsese have for taking down most of their films from 1st cut to release cut. Shot in New York City, at the Sikelia offices, in January 2014 Subscribe to DP/30 for more interviews: http://bit.ly/17Xg4Y1
Audio Commentary with Martin Scorsese,Nicholas Pileggi,Thelma Schoonmaker,Barbara De Fina,Sharon Stone,Rita Ryack & Frank Vincent
Movie Geeks United speaks with master editor Thelma Schoonmaker (The Aviator, Raging Bull, Goodfellas) about her career-long collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, including their latest 'Hugo'. For more information on Movie Geeks United, and to listen to our archive of over 600 filmmaker interviews, visit http://www.moviegeeksunited.net. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/moviegeeksunited Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/moviegeeksunite
SILENCE director/co-screenwriter/producer Martin Scorsese, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, costume/production designer Dante Ferretti, cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, and producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff discuss the film with Leonard Maltin at a special screening at the Sherry Lansing Theatre at Paramount Studios in Hollywood on Sunday, December 4, 2016. http://themoviereport.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/twotrey23 Follow me on Instagram: http://instagram.com/twotrey23 Follow me on Tumblr: http://twotrey23.tumblr.com
Amazing documentary shows rarely seen side of a master director. 1990 was a very good year for Martin Scorsese. After making a diverse group of films in the 80s, he reunited with Robert DeNiro for "Goodfellas" and later that year shot a segment for "New York Stories", an anthology film of three shorts by Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Francis Ford Coppola. During the editing, the French documentary series "Cinéma, de notre temps" filmed a documentary on the director, and it's a fascinating glimpse into his life, personality, and working habits as he edits his short with long-time collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker (three times oscar winner). More here: http://nofilmschool.com/2013/08/scorsese-machine-1990-documentary-director (André S. Labarthe, France 1991). Diese Dokumentation zeigt Scorsese i...
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Joe Walker is the twice-Oscar-nominated editor best known for his work on the films of Steve McQueen and Denis Villenueve. This wide-ranging conversation with David Poland includes Arrival, 12 Years A Slave, Hunger, Sicario, Blackhat, plus more films and some real life. Earlier Joe Walker DP/30s: Sicario: https://youtu.be/ABmDPMsVkGs Life In A Day: https://youtu.be/rpWf2bJFx9k Shot in Los Angeles, February 2017 Subscribe to DP/30 for more interviews: http://bit.ly/17Xg4Y1
Audio Commentary with Martin Scorsese,Thelma Schoonmaker and Michael Mann
Fantastic 17-minute 1993 interview with Martin Scorsese's editor Thelma Schoonmaker. Also watch: 13-Minute Clip Of Martin Scorsese & Thelma Schoonmaker In The Editing Room: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow6NB4vxCfc&list;=UUtPx9e7WNFtvtHaAU6WqXlA
She is the editing room Ginger Rogers to director Martin Scorsese's Fred Astaire. The Wolf of Wall Street is her 17th feature with Scorsese in a 47-year working relationship, during which time she has taken home 3 Oscars. She talks to David Poland about cutting Wolf, cutting down Wolf, and the process she and Scorsese have for taking down most of their films from 1st cut to release cut. Shot in New York City, at the Sikelia offices, in January 2014 Subscribe to DP/30 for more interviews: http://bit.ly/17Xg4Y1
13-Minute Clip of Martin Scorsese & Thelma Schoonmaker in the Editing Room (with director Michael Powell)
Legendary film editor Thelma Schoonmaker ("Raging Bull", "Goodfellas", "The Wolf of Wall Street"), on her Lifetime Achievement Award in Venice and working with Martin Scorsese. https://www.moviezine.se
Movie Geeks United speaks with master editor Thelma Schoonmaker (The Aviator, Raging Bull, Goodfellas) about her career-long collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, including their latest 'Hugo'. For more information on Movie Geeks United, and to listen to our archive of over 600 filmmaker interviews, visit http://www.moviegeeksunited.net. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/moviegeeksunited Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/moviegeeksunite
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Kate Winslet presenting the Oscar® for Film Editing to Thelma Schoonmaker for "The Departed" at the 79th Academy Awards in 2007.
Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker discusses the work of her late husband, director Michael Powell and her own work with Martin Scorsese in an interview at the Karlovy Vary film festival in the Czech Republic in July 2010.