Joel Cox was born in 1942 and his film career began at a very early age appearing before the cameras, in fact – as a baby in the film ‘Random.
Twenty years later he began work as a mail-room boy with Warner Brothers, the company with whom he has worked ever since, and in 1969 moved into the cutting-room, as an uncredited assistant editor on ‘Woodstock’ and ‘The Wild Bunch’. He was a credited assistant on ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’, working for the first time with Clint Eastwood.
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Joel Cox’s top movies and TV shows
Cox movies and shows include HBO First Look, American Masters, and Cleopatra Jones
Joel Cox awards and nominations
Joel won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film.
Cox won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Unforgiven. He has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors. On November 25, 2008, Clint Eastwood presented Cox the first Ignacy Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award, which is named in honor of the piano virtuoso who called Paso Robles home, at the first Paso Robles Digital Film Festival. He received a nomination for the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Changeling and for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for American Sniper
