Douglas Crise

Douglas Crise
Douglas Crise
Born	Douglas Alan Crise; May 1, 1961; Smithton, Pennsylvania
Occupation	Film editor
Years active	1993 – present

Douglas Crise is an American film editor.

Biography

Douglas Crise was born May 1, 1961, to Glenn Crise, a retired mail carrier, and Catherine, a homemaker. The middle child of the family, Crise grew up in Smithton, Pennsylvania. In 1979, Crise graduated from Yough High School and soon began to work as a meat cutter at Shop 'n Save in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.^[1] Crise graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in film studies and moved to Los Angeles to find work in the film industry, working for a little while as a movie lot truck driver. After a short stay in Los Angeles, Crise returned to Pittsburgh for a year before returning to California to work as a film editor. For months, Crise worked as an unpaid intern, apprentice, and assistant editor for very little money. Crise eventually worked his way up the film industry working as an assistant editor.^[2] In 1997, Crise worked as an assistant editor on the film Clockwatchers, with lead editor, Stephen Mirrione. This was the beginning of what would be a long-lasting collaboration between Crise and Mirrione.^[3] Eventually, Crise and Mirrione collaborated as co-editors on Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2006 film, Babel. For their work on the film, Crise and Mirrione received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, the Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing, and the Satellite Award for Best Editing.^[4] In addition to this, Crise and Mirrione won the 2007 ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic tying with Thelma Schoonmaker for The Departed, making it only the second tie in ACE Eddie Award history.^[5]

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Other notes
1993	Percy & Thunder	Ivan Dixon	Television film second assistant editor
	Return of the Living Dead 3	Brian Yuzna	assistant editor
	Necronomicon	Brian Yuzna Christophe Gans Shusuke Kaneko	first assistant editor
1994	Leprechaun 2	Rodman Flender	assistant editor
1995	Kicking and Screaming	Noah Baumbach	first assistant editor
1996	Livers Ain't Cheap	James Merendino	first assistant editor
1996	Barb Wire	David Hogan	assistant film editor
1997	Clockwatchers	Jill Sprecher	first assistant editor
1998	The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit	Stuart Gordon	assistant film editor
	Gunshy	Jeff Celentano	assistant editor
	Progeny	Brian Yuzna	additional assistant editor
	A Cool, Dry Place	John N. Smith	assistant editor
1999	Go	Doug Liman	first assistant editor
2000	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh
2001	Ocean's Eleven	Steven Soderbergh
2002	Highway	James Cox
2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	George Clooney
2003	21 Grams	Alejandro González Iñárritu	assistant editor
2004	Ocean's Twelve	Steven Soderbergh	assistant editor
2004	Criminal	Gregory Jacobs
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck	George Clooney	first assistant editor
2006	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Nominated – Academy Award for Best Film Editing with Stephen Mirrione
2007	The Nines	John August
2008	Deception	Marcel Langenegger
2008	Lovely, Still	Nicholas Fackler
2009	Breaking Point	Jeff Celentano
2010	Trust	David Schwimmer
2011	Kill the Irishman	Jonathan Hensleigh
2012	Arbitrage	Nicholas Jarecki
2012	Spring Breakers	Harmony Korine
2013	Decoding Annie Parker	Steven Bernstein
2014	Cesar Chavez	Diego Luna
2014	Birdman	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2015	Dark Places	Gilles Paquet-Brenner
2016	Mr. Pig	Diego Luna
	Gold	Stephen Gaghan
	Deserted	Ashley Avis
2017	Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House	Peter Landesman	special thanks
2018	Adolescence	Ashley Avis
	Zoe	Drake Doremus
	London Fields	Mathew Cullen
2019	The Beach Bum	Harmony Korine
2021	The Survivor	Barry Levinson
2023	The Hill	Jeff Celentano
2024	Blackwater Lane	Jeff Celentano