Joel Cox

Personal Info

Known For Editor

Gender Male

Birthday 1942-04-02 (82 years old)

Place of Birth Los Angeles, California, USA

Joel Cox

Biography

Joel Cox (born April 2, 1942) is an American film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood in 33 films. Cox has been working in film since appearing as a baby in Random Harvest (1942). He started in the mailroom at Warner Bros. in 1961. Rudi Fehr, a well-known editor and executive at Warner Bros., made Cox an apprentice editor about 3 years later. As was common in the era, Cox worked as an uncredited assistant for several years. His first credit as an assistant editor was for The Rain People, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and edited by Barry Malkin. His first credit as the editor was for Farewell, My Lovely (1975), which was directed by Dick Richards and co-edited by the veteran editor Walter A. Thompson. Cox had just finished working as Thompson's assistant on Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975), which was also directed by Richards. Cox worked on two more of Richards' films, March or Die (1977—as assistant editor) and Death Valley (1982). Cox has had a notable collaboration with Clint Eastwood that commenced with the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales, for which Cox was Ferris Webster's assistant. Cox and Webster were co-editors on The Gauntlet (1977) and on several more of Eastwood's subsequent films. Starting with Sudden Impact (1983), Cox became Eastwood's principal editor. Cox has been quoted as saying that, over their 30-year partnership, Eastwood has recut only a single scene that Cox put together. Gary D. Roach, who worked as Cox's assistant from the mid-1990s, became Cox's co-editor on Eastwood's films with Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). Cox's long streak editing each of Eastwood's films ended with Sully, which was edited by another of his former assistants, Blu Murray. In addition to his career in the film industry, since 2000 Cox and his family have owned and managed a vineyard and winery near Paso Robles, California. Cox won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Unforgiven. He has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors. On November 25, 2008, Clint Eastwood presented Cox the first Ignacy Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award, which is named in honour of the piano virtuoso who called Paso Robles home, at the first Paso Robles Digital Film Festival. He received a nomination for the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Changeling and for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for American Sniper. The 2008 Paso Robles Digital Film Festival provides a full filmography of Joel Cox as part of his Lifetime Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Editor

2024
Without Blood

as Editor

2024
Juror #2

as Editor

2021
Cry Macho

as Editor

2019
Richard Jewell

as Editor

2018
Den of Thieves

as Editor

2018
The Mule

as Editor

2017
The Adventurers

as Editor

2017
All Eyez on Me

as Editor

2014
American Sniper

as Editor

2014
Jersey Boys

as Editor

2013
Prisoners

as Editor

2011
J. Edgar

as Editor

2010
Hereafter

as Editor

2009
Invictus

as Editor

2008
Gran Torino

as Editor

2008
Changeling

as Editor

2006
2006
2004
2003
Mystic River

as Editor

2003
Piano Blues

as Editor

2003
The Blues

as Editor

2002
Blood Work

as Editor

2000
Space Cowboys

as Editor

1999
True Crime

as Editor

1997
Absolute Power

as Editor

1993
A Perfect World

as Editor

1992
Unforgiven

as Editor

1990
The Rookie

as Editor

1989
Pink Cadillac

as Editor

1988
Bird

as Editor

1986
1986
Ratboy

as Editor

1985
Pale Rider

as Editor

1984
Tightrope

as Editor

1983
Sudden Impact

as Editor

1982
Honkytonk Man

as Editor

1982
Death Valley

as Editor

1980
Bronco Billy

as Editor

1979
Escape from Alcatraz

as Assistant Editor

1977
The Gauntlet

as Editor

1976
The Enforcer

as Editor

1976
The Outlaw Josey Wales

as Assistant Editor

1975
1974
The Terminal Man

as Assistant Editor

1973
Cleopatra Jones

as Assistant Editor

1969
The Rain People

as Assistant Editor

1969
The Wild Bunch

as Assistant Editor

Sound

2007
Grace Is Gone

as Music Editor