Clare
Douglas
Clare Douglas is a British film editor who received a BAFTA Award
for Best Editing for the 2006 film United 93. Douglas has worked
extensively on British television, and she has been nominated four
times for BAFTA Television Editing Awards.
After a degree in
English and drama at Bristol University, Douglas entered a film
program at Hornsey College of Art. She was a trainee at the BBC, and
worked as an editor there on a range of documentaries and dramas.
Her freelance career began when Dennis Potter asked her to leave and
edit for his company.
In 2002 Douglas was nominated for a
BAFTA Television Craft Award for the editing of Bloody Sunday, which
was directed by Paul Greengrass. Bloody Sunday was honored by the
Golden Bear award as best film at the Berlin International Film
Festival.
United 93, directed by Paul Greengrass, was edited
by Douglas, Christopher Rouse, and Richard Pearson. The use of three
editors for the film was dictated by its short production period,
which was less than six months between the start of filming and
release of the film. Greengrass and Douglas had worked together
quite successfully on the film Bloody Sunday (2002); Greengrass,
Rouse, and Pearson had just edited The Bourne Supremacy (2004).
Despite the accelerated production schedule for United 93, the
editing was very successful. In addition to the BAFTA award, the
editors were also nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing
and for an ACE Eddie award. Ellen Feldman has written an analysis of
the film's editing.
Douglas' most recent BAFTA television
nomination was for editing The Lost Prince (2003), which was written
and directed by Stephen Poliakoff; The Lost Prince won a Primetime
Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries.
Much earlier, Douglas
had been nominated twice as best editor for two miniseries based on
John le Carré's espionage novels Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
(directed by John Irvin-1979) and Smiley's People, (1982 - directed
by Simon Langton). Douglas also edited a third miniseries based on
le Carré's novel A Perfect Spy (directed by Peter Smith - 1987).
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