Alan Heim

Alan Heim, ACE (born May 21, 1936) is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award for editing All That Jazz.

Biography Heim was born in the Bronx, New York.

He has more than thirty feature-film credits to his name, and has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Heim has also served as President of the ACE organization and as President of the Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG), the IATSE union that represents film editors, sound mixers and post-production craftspeople.

Heim had an extended collaboration with director Bob Fosse. For his work on All That Jazz (1979), Heim received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. All That Jazz is the fourth best-edited film of all time on a 2012 list compiled by the Motion Picture Editors Guild, and Edward Ländler wrote a summary of the editing for that listing.

Selected filmography

+ Music department Year Film Director Role1966 The Fat SpyJoseph CatesMusic editor

+ Thanks Year Film Director Role2009 The Red MachineSpecial thanks

Documentaries

+ Editorial department Year Film Director Role1967 FestivalMurray LernerAssociate editor

+ Producer Year Film Director Credit2004 The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie EditingWendy AppleExecutive producer: TCEP

+ Sound department Year Film Director Role1965 The Eleanor Roosevelt StoryRichard KaplanSound effects editor

TV documentaries

+ Editorial department Year Film Director Role2005 Pretty ThingsLiz GoldwynSupervising editor

TV movies

TV series

TV specials

+ Editor Year Film Director Notes1972 Liza with a ZBob FosseConcert film

Awards and nominations 2012 - CameraImage Special Award - Lifetime Achievement award "Editor with Unique Visual Sensitivity" 2010 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner - "Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television" - Grey Gardens (2009) (Shared with editor Lee Percy) 2009 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie" -Grey Gardens (2009) (shared with editor Lee Percy) 2000 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner - "Best Edited Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television" - Introducing Dorothy Dandridge 2000 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special" Introducing Dorothy Dandridge 1981 - BAFTA Award winner - "Best Editing" - All That Jazz 1980 - Academy Award winner - "Best Film Editing" - All That Jazz 1980 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award winner "Best Edited Feature Film" - All That Jazz 1979 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award nominee - "Best Edited Episode from a Television Mini-Series" - Holocaust TV series (shared with editors Stephen A. Rotter, and Brian Smedley-Aston) 1978 - BAFTA Award nomination - "Best Film Editing" - Network 1978 - Primetime Emmy Winner - "Outstanding Film Editing in a Drama Series Holocaust TV series (shared with editors Stephen A. Rotter, Robert M. Reitano, Craig McKay, and Brian Smedley-Aston) 1977 - Academy Award nomination "Best Film Editing" - Network 1977 - American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie award nominee "Best Edited Feature Film" - Network 1973 - Primetime Emmy Nomination - "Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Entertainment Programming for a Special or Feature Length Program of a Series" Liza with a Z (1972)