Andrew S. Mondshein is an American film editor with more than 25 film credits. He was widely recognized for his editing of the film The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film tells the story of Cole Sear , a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him...

(M. Night Shyamalan

M. Night Shyamalan

Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan,known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an Indian-born American screenwriter, film director, and producer known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that climax with a twist ending. He is also known for filming his movies in and around...

-1999); he was nominated for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award

BAFTA Award for Best Editing

The BAFTA Award for Best Editing is one of several annual awards presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . The film-voting members of the Academy select the five nominated films in each category; only the principal editor for each film are named, which excludes additional...

, the ACE Eddie

American Cinema Editors

Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing itself. The society is not to be confused with an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E...

, and he won the Satellite Award

Satellite Award for Best Editing

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Mondshein grew up on the east coast of the United States, and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

. His first credits are as an assistant editor on two 1982 films directed by Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict...

, Deathtrap

Deathtrap (film)

Deathtrap is a 1982 thriller film based on Ira Levin's play of the same name.The cast includes Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth and Henry Jones...

and The Verdict

The Verdict

The Verdict is a 1982 courtroom drama film which tells the story of a down-on-his-luck alcoholic lawyer who pushes a medical malpractice case in order to improve his own situation, but discovers along the way that he is doing the right thing. Since the lawsuit involves a woman in a persistent...

. He went on to edit five of Lumet's films between 1984 and 1992. Mondshein was among the first film editors to adopt electronic techniques (on the film Power (Lumet-1986)).

Mondshein has had a notable collaboration on seven films with the Swedish director Lasse Hallström

Lasse Hallström

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. Their collaboration commenced with Hallström's first English language film Once Around

Once Around

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(1991). It includes Chocolat (2000), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible not only...

, and for which Mondshein was nominated for a second Eddie. Their most recent collaboration is The Hoax

The Hoax

The Hoax is a 2007 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström. The screenplay by William Wheeler is based on the book of the same title by Clifford Irving and focuses on the autobiography Irving supposedly helped Howard Hughes write...

(2006). Because of his concurrent work on The Sixth Sense, Mondshein played only a peripheral role in Hallström's The Cider House Rules

The Cider House Rules (film)

The Cider House Rules is a 1999 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on John Irving's novel of the same name. The film won two Academy Awards, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with four other nominations at the 72nd Academy Awards...

(1999); Lisa Zeno Churgin

Lisa Zeno Churgin

Lisa Zeno Churgin is an American film editor with more than 25 film credits; she was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1999 film The Cider House Rules . Since 2002, Churgin has also served as the president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild...

 edited that film, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Film Editing.

Mondshein has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors

American Cinema Editors

Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing itself. The society is not to be confused with an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E...

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