Melanie Oliver

Melanie Ann Oliver is a New Zealand film editor. She is best known for her works in the films Anna Karenina, Les Misérables (2012), The Danish Girl (2015) and Victoria & Abdul (2017).

Oliver won a British Academy Television Craft Award for editing the successful television film Longford (2006), as well as being twice nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for editing part two of the miniseries Elizabeth I (2005) and episode "Independence" of the miniseries John Adams (2008).

Career Oliver was raised in New Zealand, where she completed a university degree in advertising and marketing. Her career in film began as an assistant editor under the tutelage of screenwriter/director Jane Campion on Campion's films An Angel at My Table (1990) and The Portrait of a Lady (1996). She relocated to England where she worked as an assistant editor at a documentary production company and began to edit her own short films. In 1997 she was hired by Joe Wright to edit Crocodile Snap, a short film he was directing for the BBC; Oliver credits this experience as her breakthrough. In 2008 she collaborated with Hooper again on the miniseries John Adams; her editing was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award and another Emmy. Oliver and Dickens' work on Les Misérables received numerous accolades, including nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Editing, an Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Comedy or Musical Film, and a Satellite Award for Best Editing. She later edited Pride (2014) and Before I Go to Sleep (2014).

Selected filmography The director of each film is indicated in parentheses.

A Mulatto Song (Topher Campbell-1996) Crocodile Snap (Joe Wright-1997) Renegade TV Gets Dazed (?-1998) The End (Joe Wright-1998) Blood and Money (Joanna Bailey-2001) Puff Daddy: Keeping It Real (Bruce Goodison-2001) Dirty War (Daniel Percival-2004) Faith (David Thacker-2005) Longford (Tom Hooper-2006) Celebration (John Crowley-2007) Mansfield Park (Iain B. MacDonald-2007) Brick Lane (Sarah Gavron-2007) The Damned United (Tom Hooper-2009) Creation (Jon Amiel-2009) The Special Relationship (Richard Loncraine-2010) Jane Eyre (Cary Joji Fukunaga-2011) Anna Karenina (Joe Wright-2012) Les Misérables (Tom Hooper-2012) Pride (Matthew Warchus-2014) Before I Go to Sleep (Rowan Joffe-2014) The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper-2015) Bridget Jones's Baby (Sharon Maguire-2016) Victoria & Abdul (Stephen Frears-2017) Mary Magdalene (Garth Davis-2018) Judy (Rupert Goold-2019) Cats (Tom Hooper-2019) The Last Letter from Your Lover (Augustine Frizzell-2021) Matilda the Musical (Matthew Warchus-2022) Wicked Little Letters (Thea Sharrock-2023) Moana (Thomas Kail-2026)