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Chris Innis

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Academy-Award winning film editor Chris Innis, ACE, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in film studies, and received an MFA in live action filmmaking from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the creative arts school founded by Walt Disney. Innis won the 2010 Oscar, BAFTA, American Cinema Editors (ACE), and International Press Academy's Golden Satellite awards for "Best Film Editing" for "The Hurt Locker," shared with co-editor, Bob Murawski, ACE. Chris Innis has served as an associate board member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE).

Like director Joel Coen, Innis hails from the cutting rooms of director Sam Raimi, among other filmmakers. Some of Innis' editing credits include Sam Raimi's cult TV show "American Gothic," Raimi's "The Gift" and "Spider-man" (Music editor: temp score), as well as Ridley Scott's Navy Seals film "G.I.Jane" (Associate Editor). She worked her way up alongside film editors, Pietro Scalia ACE and Joe Hutshing ACE, both of whom she started assisted on the Academy Award-winning Oliver Stone film, "JFK."

Innis is also a writer-filmmaker who has been a semi-finalist in the Academy of Arts and Sciences Don & Gee Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship and the Chesterfield Writers Film Project Screenwriting Competition. Her short films have screened at several major film festivals and she has written, directed and produced karaoke videos for Pioneer Electronics, as well as edited music videos including the first directed by Jordan Scott (daughter of Ridley Scott), and for artists such as Ice Cube, Onyx and DMX. She has also produced for distributor Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars, including the recent digital restorations on Blu-ray/DVD of classic films including 1966's "The Big Gundown" and the 1968 film, "The Swimmer." She wrote, directed, produced and edited "The Story of the Swimmer" a five-part, 2-1/2 hour documentary on the making of "The Swimmer." Innis is a fellow and current member of the Ryan Murphy Television Directing Mentorship Program (Half Initiative).

Chris Innis has lectured and been on panels at film schools, universities and public schools including at The University of Southern California (USC) film school, The American Film Institute (AFI), The University of Nebraska Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film in Lincoln Nebraska, The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Lincoln Nebraska Public Schools Arts & Humanities Focus Program and John F. Kennedy public high school's filmmaking magnet program in Los Angeles, California.
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    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 12 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Known for

    Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (2008)
    The Hurt Locker
    7.5
    • Editor
    • 2008
    78/52 (2017)
    78/52
    7.3
    • Self
    • 2017
    Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man (2002)
    Spider-Man
    7.4
    • Music Department
    • 2002
    Demi Moore in G.I. Jane (1997)
    G.I. Jane
    6.0
    • Editorial Department
    • 1997

    Credits

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    Editor



    • Evil Dead 40: A Special Night with Bruce Campbell (2021)
      Evil Dead 40: A Special Night with Bruce Campbell
      Short
      • Editor
      • 2021
    • Gone with the Pope: The Players
      Video
      • Editor
      • 2015
    • Allison Anders Interviews Marge Champion
      Video
      • Editor
      • 2014
    • The Story of the Swimmer (2014)
      The Story of the Swimmer
      7.9
      • Editor
      • 2014
    • The Black Tulip (2010)
      The Black Tulip
      7.3
      • Editor
      • 2010
    • Pieces of Juan: An Interview with Director Juan Piquer Simón
      7.6
      Video
      • Editor
      • 2008
    • Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (2008)
      The Hurt Locker
      7.5
      • Editor
      • 2008
    • Onyx: 15 Years of Videos, History & Violence (2008)
      Onyx: 15 Years of Videos, History & Violence
      7.8
      Video
      • Editor (video "Shut 'Em Down w/ DMX")
      • 2008
    • Bryan Neal in The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes (1999)
      The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes
      3.5
      • Editor
      • 1999
    • Ice Cube Feat. DMX & DJ Clark Kent: We Be Clubbin' (Remix) (1998)
      Ice Cube Feat. DMX & DJ Clark Kent: We Be Clubbin' (Remix)
      6.2
      Music Video
      • Editor
      • 1998
    • Sticky Fingaz, Fredro Starr, and Sonny Seeza in Onyx Feat. DMX: Shut 'Em Down (1998)
      Onyx Feat. DMX: Shut 'Em Down
      6.5
      Music Video
      • Editor
      • 1998
    • Fine: Industrial Is Dead Feat. Ashley Hamilton
      Music Video
      • Editor
      • 1998
    • Vermin
      5.4
      • Editor
      • 1998
    • Lucas Black, Gary Cole, and Paige Turco in American Gothic (1995)
      American Gothic
      8.1
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 1995–1996
    • Love Pig
      Short
      • Editor
      • 1990

    Editorial Department



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    • Trumpet (2020)
      Trumpet
      6.9
      Short
      • trailer
      • 2020
    • Toby Kebbell and Jack Huston in Ben-Hur (2016)
      Ben-Hur
      5.7
      • additional editor (uncredited)
      • 2016
    • The Black Tulip (2010)
      The Black Tulip
      7.3
      • additional editor
      • 2010
    • James Cromwell, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, Theresa Russell, Tobey Maguire, Ted Raimi, Thomas Haden Church, Joe Virzi, Elizabeth Banks, Mike Alexander, Frank Anello, Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Elya Baskin, Joe Bays, Andre B. Blake, Bruce Campbell, Craig Castaldo, Terrell Clayton, Alan Cohn, Grant Curtis, Robert Curtis Brown, Gregg Daniel, Walt Dohrn, Dean Edwards, Hal Fishman, James Franco, Anne Gartlan, Lucy Gordon, Topher Grace, Rosemary Harris, Bryce Dallas Howard, Andrew James Jones, Ron King, Mark Kubr, Stan Lee, Tim Maculan, Sonya Maddox, Joe Manganiello, Danny Mann, Carolyn Neff, Bill Nunn, Ayesha Orange, Edward Padilla, Michael Papajohn, John Paxton, Alyssa Lakota, Timothy Patrick Quill, Emilio Rivera, Cliff Robertson, Bill E. Rogers, Shade Rupe, J.K. Simmons, Peter Sohn, Evelyn O. Vaccaro, Steve Valentine, Marc Vann, Jennifer Weston, Keith Woulard, Dan Callahan, Jeshua Vargas, Gary Flamik, Mageina Tovah, Claudia Katz Minnick, Toni Wynne, April Parker Jones, Martha Millan, Margaret Laney, Christina Cindrich, Dawn Marie Anderson, Reynaldo Gallegos, Natali Jones, Sincerely A. Ward, Nick Vlassopoulos, Gerald Bunsen, Jim Coope, David Backus, Vanessa Ross, Aimee Miles, Natalie McNeil, Jen Oda, Perla Haney-Jardine, Dan Cummings, Kristi Clainos, Brittany Krall, David Collihan, Joseph O'Brien, Peter Donato, Rogelio T. Ramos, Linda Lee, Graig F. Weich, Arne Starr, Liam Stone, Ray Wineteer, Samantha Ressler, Stella Stark, Julie Jei, Derrick 'Phoenix' Thomas, Michael Ciesla, Tiffany L. Baker, La Rivers, Tanya Bond, Tony Besson, Kristin Somo, Brigid Turner, Ramon Adams, Marc C. Cancassi, Silq Webster, Anya Avaeva, Bernadette Lords, Bria Roberts, Sandrine Marlier, Jhing, Kellie Aiken, Abbey Skinner, Anjelia Pelay, Crystal Marie Denha, Kathryn Bryding, Michael McLaughlin, Nick Poltoranin, Paul Edney, Chuck Gerena, Arick Salmea, Kevin Fung, Christopher Stadulis, Jennifer Sparks, Carol Chaikin, Lorne Raimi, Emma Raimi, Taylor Hemhauser, Austin Hendrickson, Nasir Stewart, Jessi Collins, Menachem Mendel Boymelgreen, Henry Raimi, Vance Hammond, Logan Fry, Daniel Shafer, Dan Maysen, Cesar Di Parra, Eric Shackelford, Veronica, Amy V. Dewhurst, Robert Myers, Samantha Kelly, Vanessa Reseland, Sujeilee Candele, Irina Costa Jelinek, Christopher Jude, Halla, Brianna Leann Florian, Tiffany Ashley Florian, Amanda Florian, Laura McDavid, Tony Galtieri, Jimmy Star, Natalie Fabry, John Crann, Angelis Alexandris, Trenton Willey, Marmee Regine Cosico, Shaun Patrick Flynn, Brian Hopson, Tajna Tanovic, Aija Terauda, Daniel Mignault, Pierangeli Llinas, Philip Vaiman, Luis Rosa, A.J. Adelman, Fredrick Weiss, Donn R. Nottage, Don Pravda, Keith Fausnaught, Claude Jay, Tia Latrell, Kadrolsha Ona Carole, Michele-Nanette Miller, Emily Eckes, Tom Coughlin, Austin Rospert, Karen Schiff Freeman, and Roger Petan in Spider-Man 3 (2007)
      Spider-Man 3
      6.3
      • assistant editor: New York
      • 2007
    • Demi Moore in G.I. Jane (1997)
      G.I. Jane
      6.0
      • associate editor
      • 1997
    • John Travolta and Harry Belafonte in White Man's Burden (1995)
      White Man's Burden
      5.3
      • assistant editor
      • 1995
    • Lucas Black, Gary Cole, and Paige Turco in American Gothic (1995)
      American Gothic
      8.1
      TV Series
      • associate editor
      • 1995
    • I Shot a Man in Vegas (1995)
      I Shot a Man in Vegas
      4.1
      • assistant editor
      • 1995
    • Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman in The Quick and the Dead (1995)
      The Quick and the Dead
      6.5
      • first assistant editor
      • 1995
    • Sara Gilbert, Bruce Ramsay, and Natasha Gregson Wagner in Dead Beat (1994)
      Dead Beat
      5.3
      • first assistant editor
      • 1994
    • Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, and Robert Redford in Indecent Proposal (1993)
      Indecent Proposal
      6.0
      • apprentice editor
      • 1993
    • Kevin Costner in JFK (1991)
      JFK
      8.0
      • apprentice editor
      • 1991
    • Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989)
      Jake Spanner, Private Eye
      6.3
      TV Movie
      • assistant editor
      • 1989
    • Heidi Carpenter and Ashutosh Gowariker in West Is West (1989)
      West Is West
      7.1
      • assistant editor
      • 1989
    • Mako and Nobu McCarthy in The Wash (1988)
      The Wash
      6.9
      • apprentice editor
      • 1988

    Director



    • Gone with the Pope: The Players
      Video
      • Director
      • 2015
    • The Story of the Swimmer (2014)
      The Story of the Swimmer
      7.9
      • Director
      • 2014
    • Vermin
      5.4
      • Director
      • 1998
    • Love Pig
      Short
      • Director
      • 1990

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      • Christina Jean Innis
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      • San Diego, California, USA
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      • Bob Murawski2008 - present
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      Graduated from CalArts film school (MFA), and UC Berkeley (BA) as a film major.

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