John Carnochan

John Carnochan (born in 1960) is a film editor. He is noted particularly for editing animated films, including Walt Disney Animation Studios' The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast (1991), and The Lion King (1994, co-edited by Tom Finan).

Upon completion of The Lion King, many employees left Disney with President Jeffrey Katzenberg to work at DreamWorks Animation, with Carnochan being one of them. He edited DreamWorks's 2nd film, The Road to El Dorado (2000, co-edited by Vicki Hiatt, Dan Molina, and Lynne Southerland). After working on The Road to El Dorado, Carnochan edited the first two films for Blue Sky Studios, Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). More recently, he worked on the films The Prince of Egypt, Fantasia 2000, The Simpsons Movie, Horton Hears a Who!, Arthur Christmas, Walking with Dinosaurs, The Book of Life, and Illumination's The Grinch.

Carnochan's first editorial job was on director Richard Rush's film The Stunt Man, as an assistant editor.

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