Zach Staenberg

Zach S. Staenberg, A.C.E. (born August 1951) is an American film editor and producer, best known for his work on action films and the Matrix Trilogy. Staenberg won an Academy Award and two ACE Eddie Award for the editing of The Matrix (1999) and for HBO's Gotti (1996) for which he was also nominated for an Emmy. The Matrix films were written and directed by the Wachowskis, with whom Staenberg has had an extended collaboration dating from 1996. He also works with directors Andrew Niccol, Robert Harmon, Edgar Wright, and John Woo.

Zach Staenberg ACE
Born	August 1951 (age 73) United States
Occupations	Film editor producer
Years active	1983–present
Organization	American Cinema Editors

Staenberg has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors.^[1]

Filmography

Feature films

Year	Title	Functioned as		Director	Notes
		Editor	Other
1981	The Chosen	Yes		Jeremy Kagan	Assistant editor
	The Woman Inside	Yes		Joseph Van Winkle
1984	Police Academy	Yes		Hugh Wilson
	Once Upon a Time in America	Yes		Sergio Leone	U.S. re-edited version[2]
1985	Rustlers' Rhapsody	Yes		Hugh Wilson
1987	Stripped to Kill	Yes		Katt Shea	With Bruce Stubblefield
1988	Blackout	Yes		Doug Adams
1991	Eyes of an Angel	Yes		Robert Harmon
1993	Nowhere to Run	Yes		Robert Harmon
1996	Bound	Yes		The Wachowskis
1998	Phoenix	Yes		Danny Cannon
1999	The Matrix	Yes		The Wachowskis
2001	Antitrust	Yes		Peter Howitt
2003	The Matrix Reloaded	Yes		The Wachowskis
	The Matrix Revolutions	Yes
2005	Lord of War	Yes		Andrew Niccol
2007	Mongol	Yes		Sergei Bodrov
2008	Speed Racer	Yes		The Wachowskis	With Roger Barton
	City of Ember	Yes		Gil Kenan
2010	Bunraku	Yes		Guy Moshe
2011	In Time	Yes		Andrew Niccol
2013	Ender's Game	Yes		Gavin Hood	With Lee Smith
2014	Good Kill	Yes		Andrew Niccol
2015	Blackhat	Yes		Michael Mann	Additional editor
2017	Sand Castle	Yes		Fernando Coimbra
	Once Upon a Time in Venice	Yes		Mark Cullen
2018	Pacific Rim: Uprising	Yes		Steven S. DeKnight
2020	Ava	Yes		Tate Taylor
2021	American Night	Yes	Yes	Alessio Della Valle	Also co-producer
2023	Silent Night	Yes	Yes	John Woo
2024	The Killer	Yes

Short films

Year	Title	Functioned as		Director	Notes
		Editor	Other
1983	China Lake	Yes	Yes	Robert Harmon	Also associate producer
	End of the Rainbow	Yes	Yes	Laszlo Papas
2022	Glitch		Yes	Rebecca Berrih	Associate producer

Television

Year	Title	Functioned as		Director	Notes
		Editor	Other
1991	Great Performances	Yes	Yes	Luis Valdez	Episode: "La pastorela"; also associate producer
	Conagher	Yes		Reynaldo Villalobos	Television film
1994	The Cisco Kid	Yes		Luis Valdez
1996	Gotti	Yes		Robert Harmon
1997	Weapons of Mass Distraction	Yes		Stephen Surjik
2000	The Crossing	Yes		Robert Harmon

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Work	Result
Academy Award	2000	Best Film Editing	The Matrix	Won
American Cinema Editors Award	1997	Best Edited Two-Hour Movie for Non-Commercial Television	Gotti	Nominated
	2000	Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic	The Matrix	Won
British Academy Film Award	2000	Best Editing		Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award	1997	Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie	Gotti	Nominated

In 2012, The Matrix was listed as the 25th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild.^[3]

References

1. "American Cinema Editors > Members", webpage archived by WebCite from this original URL on 2008-03-04.
2. "Once Upon a Time in America (1984)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
3. "The 75 Best Edited Films". Editors Guild Magazine. 1 (3). May 2012. Archived from the original on 2015-03-17.

External links

• van Hook, Andrea (2004). "Zach Staenberg on The Matrix Trilogy", The Editors Guild Magazine Vol. 25, No. 1 (January–February 2005), archived at Webcite from this URL on 2008-05-05.
• Zach Staenberg at IMDb