John Gilroy (film editor)

John M. Gilroy (born June 24, 1959)^[1] is an American film editor whose work includes Michael Clayton, The Bourne Legacy, Warrior, Pacific Rim, Nightcrawler and Suicide Squad.

John Gilroy
Born	(1959-06-24) June 24, 1959 (age 65) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1984–present
Children	1
Parent(s)	Frank D. Gilroy Ruth Dorothy Gaydos
Relatives	Dan Gilroy (twin brother) Tony Gilroy (brother)

Life and career

Gilroy was born in 1959 in Santa Monica, California. He is the son of Ruth Dorothy (Gaydos), a sculptor and writer, and Frank D. Gilroy, a filmmaker. He is the twin brother of screenwriter-director Dan Gilroy and the brother of screenwriter-director Tony Gilroy.^[2][3] He has a daughter, Carolyn, born in 1990.^[4]

John did not originally plan to enter the film industry. He studied government at Dartmouth College with the intention of continuing on to attend law school, but eventually decided to pursue a career in film rather than law. He moved to New York City, where he worked as a bartender for two years before landing his first job as an assistant editor under Rick Shaine on the 1984 adaptation of Herb Gardner's play The Goodbye People.^[5] He was an editorial assistant on several films made throughout the 1980s, including Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Gardens of Stone (1987). His first film as the primary editor was The Luckiest Man in the World (1989), which was written and directed by his father.^[6]

Gilroy also edited films including Billy Madison (1995), Shadow Magic (2000), Suspect Zero (2004) and Trust the Man (2005). He worked with his brother Tony Gilroy, a screenwriter and director, for the first time on Tony's film Michael Clayton (2007). The film received seven Academy Award nominations and John's editing was nominated for a BAFTA Award and an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award.^[6] John and Tony later collaborated on Duplicity (2009) and The Bourne Legacy (2012). In 2014 John worked with his other brother, fraternal twin Dan Gilroy, also a screenwriter and director, as the editor of Nightcrawler, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing. He has edited films for every member of his immediate family—his father and both brothers—except his mother.^[7] He has also worked often with director Gavin O'Connor,^[6] and edited Phillip Noyce's Salt (2010) and Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim (2013).^[7]

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1989	The Luckiest Man in the World	Frank D. Gilroy
1993	Who's the Man?	Ted Demme	Co-edited with Jeffrey Wolf
1995	Billy Madison	Tamra Davis
1999	Tumbleweeds	Gavin O'Connor	First collaboration with Gavin O'Connor
	Game Day	Steve Klein
2000	Shadow Magic	Ann Hu	Co-edited with Keith Reamer
2002	Narc	Joe Carnahan
	Crazy Little Thing	Matthew Miller
2004	Miracle	Gavin O'Connor	Second collaboration with Gavin O'Connor Co-edited with Daric Loo
	Suspect Zero	E. Elias Merhige	Co-edited with Robert K. Lambert
2005	Trust the Man	Bart Freundlich
2007	First Born	Isaac Webb
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy	First collaboration with Tony Gilroy Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Editing
2008	Pride and Glory	Gavin O'Connor	Third collaboration with Gavin O'Connor Co-edited with Lisa Zeno Churgin
2009	Duplicity	Tony Gilroy	Second collaboration with Tony Gilroy
2010	Salt	Philip Noyce	Co-edited with Stuart Baird
2011	Warrior	Gavin O'Connor	Fourth collaboration with Gavin O'Connor Co-edited with Aaron Marshall, Matt Chesse and Sean Albertson
2012	The Bourne Legacy	Tony Gilroy	Third Collaboration with Tony Gilroy
2013	Pacific Rim	Guillermo del Toro	Co-edited with Peter Amundson
2014	Nightcrawler	Dan Gilroy	First Collaboration with Dan Gilroy Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Editing
2016	Suicide Squad	David Ayer
	Rogue One	Gareth Edwards	Co-edited with Colin Goudie and Jabez Olssen
2017	Roman J. Israel, Esq.	Dan Gilroy	Second Collaboration with Dan Gilroy
2019	Velvet Buzzsaw		Third Collaboration with Dan Gilroy

Television series

Year	Television series	Creator	Editor	Producer	Notes
2022	Andor	Tony Gilroy	Yes	Co-producer	3 episodes Fourth collaboration with Tony and Dan Gilroy Co-edited with Tim Porter

References

1. "John M Gilroy". California Birth Index. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
2. Frank D. Gilroy Biography (1925-)
3. Tony Gilroy Biography ((?)-)
4. "Carolyn Gilroy". IMDb.
5. "In Conversation: John Gilroy (Editor of Nightcrawler, Pacific Rim, Michael Clayton)". Film Doctor. January 21, 2015. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
6. "Loyola Awards John Gilroy". Motion Picture Editors Guild. September 28, 2009. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
7. "John Gilroy". Film Independent Spirit Awards. 2014. Retrieved February 10, 2014.

External links

• John Gilroy at IMDb