Michael Chandler (film editor)


Michael Chandler is an American film editor of feature and documentary films, and a writer and director of documentary films. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the film Amadeus. He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the same film, which he shared with Nena Danevic. He won the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature for Amadeus and the Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary for the ABC production Can’t It Be Anyone Else?
He was film editor on ', Never Cry Wolf and Empire Records. He was writer and editor of Freedom on My Mind, co-writer and consulting editor on ', editor of and Squires of San Quentin, and co-writer and editor of . As writer and editor of the ABC television special Can't It Be Anyone Else? he was awarded the Christopher Award, presented for works that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit."
He produced and directed, with Sheila Canavan, the feature documentary , a Showtime Networks Broadcast Premier and official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival; the PBS Independent Lens feature documentary
which one reviewer called, “one of the year's best 'believe it or not' documentaries, a rural Rashomon and a compelling cinematic experience;” and produced & directed , a PBS documentary which investigated the burning by Ku Klux Klansmen of Black churches. Bill Moyers said about it: "If we wanted a real dialog about race in America, we'd start with this film." Chandler also produced & directed investigative documentaries for the PBS series Frontline, including a collaboration with The New York Times, , and
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Chandler is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Writer's Guild.