Stephen Mirrione

Stephen Mirrione (born February 17, 1969) is an American film editor. He is best known for winning an Academy Award for his editing of the film Traffic.

Life and career Mirrione was born in Santa Clara County, California. He attended Bellarmine College Preparatory and then the University of California, Santa Cruz, from which he received his bachelor's degree in 1991. He moved to Los Angeles, and began a collaboration with Doug Liman, who was then a graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Mirrione edited Liman's first feature films Getting In (1994), Swingers (1996), and Go (1999), which was an homage to Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon.

Mirrione has had a notable collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh. The two met when Soderbergh attended the opening of Go. About one year later, he asked Mirrione to edit Traffic (2000),

Mirrione subsequently edited all three of the Ocean's films directed by Soderbergh and starring George Clooney (Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), and Ocean's Thirteen (2007)), as well as The Informant! (2009) and Contagion (2011).

Mirrione won an American Cinema Editors "Eddie" Award in 2006 for his editing of Alejandro González Iñárritu's film Babel, for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award. He has been nominated four times for BAFTA Awards for editing Traffic, 21 Grams (also directed by Inarritu – 2003), Good Night, and Good Luck (directed by George Clooney-2005), and for Babel.

Mirrione has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors.

Selected filmography

Academy Awards and nominations 2000 – Traffic (won) Academy Award Film Editing 2006 – Babel (nominated) Academy Award Film Editing 2015 – The Revenant (nominated) Academy Award Film Editing 2025 – F1 (nominated) Academy Award Film Editing see: Academy Award for Best Film Editing

Other awards and nominations 2000 – Traffic (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing 2000 – Traffic (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic 2002 – Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (won) San Diego Film Critics Society SDFCS Award Best Editing 2003 – 21 Grams (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing 2005 – Good Night, and Good Luck (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing 2005 – Good Night, and Good Luck (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic 2006 – Babel (won) Cannes Film Festival Vulcain Prize – Awarded to a technical artist by the C.S.T. 2006 – Babel (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing 2006 – Babel (won) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic 2010 – Biutiful (nominated) 25th Goya Awards Best Editing 2013 – August: Osage County (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical 2014 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing 2014 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical 2015 – The Revenant (nominated) BAFTA Film Award Best Editing 2015 – The Revenant (nominated) American Cinema Editors ACE Eddie Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic