Lee Smith is an ACE-certified film editor. He first started out his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993) (for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound), The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and Holy Smoke (1999). Smith was also editing films during this interval; he was one of the editors for Robocop 2 (1990). He began his work with the director Peter Weir as the sound editor for Green Card (1990). His work with Weir continued as editor and sound designer for Fearless (1993) and for The Truman Show (1998). He edited Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), for which Smith was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and for the "Eddie Award" of the American Cinema Editors.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Film editor

The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis.

• RoboCop 2 (Irvin Kershner-1990)
• Fearless (Peter Weir-1993)
• The Truman Show (Peter Weir-1998)
• Two Hands (Gregor Jordan-1999)
• Risk (2000)
• Buffalo Soldiers (Gregor Jordan-2001)
• Black and White (Craig Lahiff-2002)
• The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir-2003)
• Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan-2005)
• The Prestige (Christopher Nolan-2006)
• The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan-2008)

[edit] Sound designer or editor

• Green Card (1990)
• Fearless (1993)
• The Piano (1993)
• The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
• The Truman Show (1998)

[edit] External links

• Lee Smith at the Internet Movie Database
• Hollyn, Norman (2003). "Lee Smith on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World", The Editors Guild Magazine Vol. 24, No. 6 - November/December 2003. Online version archived at WebCite from this original URL on 2008-05-21.

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