Stephen Schaffer
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Stephen Schaffer is a film editor who has worked on several films produced by Pixar
. At the 58th American Cinema Editors Awards
, he won an ACE Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical for WALL-E
; this marked the first time the award went to the editor of an animated film.
Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...
. At the 58th American Cinema Editors Awards
American Cinema Editors Awards 2008
The 59th American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards, which were presented on Sunday, February 15, 2009 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, honored the best editors in films and televisions of 2008.-Film:Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic:...
, he won an ACE Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical for WALL-E
WALL-E
WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
; this marked the first time the award went to the editor of an animated film.
Filmography as editor
- WALL-EWALL-EWALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
(2008) - CarsCars (film)Cars is a 2006 American animated family film produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Joe Ranft. It is the seventh Disney·Pixar feature film, and Pixar's final, independently-produced motion picture before its purchase by Disney...
(2006) (race sequence editor and additional voices) - Jack-Jack AttackJack-Jack AttackJack-Jack Attack is a 2005 short film produced by Pixar based upon their film The Incredibles. Unlike many of their previous shorts, it was not given a theatrical release, but was included on the DVD release of the film...
(2005) (short) - The IncrediblesThe IncrediblesThe Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated action-comedy superhero film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their powers. It was written and directed by Brad Bird, a former director and executive consultant of The Simpsons, and was produced by Pixar and distributed by...
(2004) (also additional voices) - Osmosis JonesOsmosis JonesOsmosis Jones is a 2001 live-action/animated comedy film directed by Tom Sito and Piet Kroon for the animated segments and the Farrelly brothers for the live-action segments...
(2001) - The Iron GiantThe Iron GiantThe Iron Giant is a 1999 animated film produced by Warner Bros. Animation, based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Brad Bird directed the film, which stars a voice cast of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Vin Diesel, Eli Marienthal, Christopher McDonald and John Mahoney...
(1999) (assistant editor)
ACE Awards
- WALL-E (2008), won (Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical)
- The Incredibles (2004), nominated (Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical)