Neil Travis
Herbert Neil Travis was an American film and television editor with about 28 feature film credits from 1970–2007. He is likely best known for editing the television miniseries Roots and the feature film Dances with Wolves.
Travis was born in Los Angeles, California, and received a bachelor's degree in film and theater arts from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Travis won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Film Editing In A Drama Series for the first part of the television miniseries Roots, and he and James Heckert were nominated for the award for the second part as well. Travis won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the American Cinema Editors Eddie for the film Dances with Wolves. Travis had been selected as a member of the American Cinema Editors, and received the Career Achievement Award in 2010.
In 2010, Travis was interviewed about his career by Karen Herman for the Archive of American Television.Filmography (Editor)
The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis.
- Premonition -------
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- The Sum of All Fears -------
- Along Came a Spider -------
- Bicentennial Man -------
- Stepmom -------
- The Edge -------
- Moll Flanders -------
- Outbreak -------
- Clear and Present Danger -------
- Bopha! -------
- Patriot Games -------
- Deceived -------
- Dances with Wolves -------. Travis and Dean Semler did a commentary audio track for the Special Edition DVD release in 2003.
- Cocktail -------
- No Way Out -------
- Marie -------
- The Philadelphia Experiment -------
- Cujo -------
- Second Thoughts -------
- Nobody's Perfekt -------
- The Idolmaker -------
- Nights at O'Rear's -------
- Die Laughing -------
- Hot Stuff -------
- Jaws 2 -------
- The Cowboys -------
- The Traveling Executioner -------
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Awards
Academy Awards 1991, USA
American Cinema Editors 2010, USA
