Nick Hector

Nick Hector is a British Canadian film producer and editor, and professor of film production at the University of Windsor.

Career Hector collaborated with Canadian filmmaker Allan King and exclusively cut his films during the last decade of King's career. He won a Gemini Award for editing King's TIFF "Top Ten Canadian Film" Dying at Grace, which the Toronto International Film Festival described as “one of the best ever made in this country”. In 1996 he won the Hot Docs "Best Editing" award for Yvan Patry’s Hand of God. He received a Gemini in 1998 for his work on Yvan Patry’s Hot Docs Best of Festival and Chalmers Award winner Chronique d’un genocide announce. In 2009, he won a Gemini for editing Sturla Gunnarsson’s Air India 182, making him the only editor to be awarded three Gemini Awards for documentary.

Hector's credits include Tim Southam’s Genie-nominated Drowning in Dreams; John Haslett Cuff’s Gemini-winning Crimes of the Heart; Min Sook Lee’s Hogtown: The Politics of Policing and Allan King’s Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company. He edited Sturla Gunnarsson's documentary about David Suzuki, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie, which won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, the Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing and also the Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2014 Hector cut Gunnarsson's TIFF Canadian Top Ten Audience Award winner Monsoon. Most recently, Hector was awarded a Canadian Screen Award for editing the Canadian instalment of Ridley Scott's Life in a Day franchise Canada in a Day.

In addition, Hector served as a co-producer for the documentaries The Perfect Story, Prey, Sharkwater Extinction, Wiebo's War, Thay - The Teacher, War Surgeon, Actuality, and the award-winning El Chogui. He served as series producer for Birth Stories and Love is Not Enough and co-director of the CSA Award-winning series War Story. Hector was nominated for a 2012 Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary for Wiebo's War.

In 2018, Hector completed the movie Sharkwater Extinction after the death of Rob Stewart.

Hector is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, Canadian Cinema Editors, British Film Editors and American Cinema Editors and holds a Doctorate in Fine Art from the University of Hertfordshire.

Filmography Year Title Role

1989 Electronic Jam Editor, Sound Editor Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Sound 1991 Nuit et silence Editor, Sound Editor Finaliste - Prix Gémeaux meilleur montage documentaire 1996 Hand of God Editor HotDocs Award for Best Documentary Editing 1997 Chronique d'un genocide Editor Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing Finaliste - Prix Gémeaux meilleur montage documentaire 1999 The Dragon's Egg Editor Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing 2002 El Chogui Producer, Editor Contra el Silencio todas las Voces (Mexico) Award for Best Documentary La Festival Medias Nord-Sud (Switzerland) Award for Best Independent Film Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival Award for Best Documentary San Francisco Latino Film Festival Award for Best in Festival La Cinemafe Film Festival (New York) Special Jury Prize 2003 Inside Information Editor Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing 2003 Dying at Grace Editor Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team 2005 Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company Editor Finalist - Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team 2006 EMPz 4 Life Editor Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Team 2009 Air India 182 Editor Gemini Award for Best Documentary Editing 2010 Experimental Eskimos Editor Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award 2011 Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie Editor Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award 2012 Wiebo's War Producer, Editor Finalist - Genie Award - Best Feature Documentary Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing 2013 Echoes Editor Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing 2014 War Story Co-director, Editor Finalist - Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing 2015 Monsoon Editor Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada's Allan King Award 2016 This Changes Everything Editor Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing 2017 Canada in a Day Editor Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Editing 2017 Unfractured Editor Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing 2017 How to Prepare for Prison Editor Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing 2018 Sharkwater Extinction Producer, Editor Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Best Documentary Editing Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing 2019 Prey Co-producer, Editor HotDocs Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature Canadian Cinema Editors Award - Best Feature Documentary Editing Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Feature Documentary Editing Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing 2020 Fight to the Finish Co-producer, Editor Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best History Documentary 2022 The Perfect Story Co-producer, Editor Best Canadian Documentary - Calgary International Film Festival Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing Finalist - Canadian Cinema Editors Award for Best Documentary Editing Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Documentary Program 2023 The Man Who Stole Einstein's Brain Editor, Story Editor Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best History Documentary Finalist - Canadian Screen Award - Best Documentary Film Editing 2025 Shamed Editor Finalist - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary Editing