EDDIE HAMILTON - short biography

Eddie is currently cutting X-Men: First Class for 20th Century Fox, and was the co-editor of Kick-Ass, the US number one commercial and critical hit. After 15 years in the industry Eddie has cut over 20 feature films (both indies and studio movies) in a wide variety of genres as well as TV dramas, documentaries and award-winning shorts. His enthusiasm for big screen storytelling is matched only by his total dedication to the craft of cutting, his world-class technical expertise and his undisputed love of chocolate.


EDDIE HAMILTON - extended biography
 
Eddie Hamilton is currently cutting X-Men: First Class for 20th Century Fox, and was the co-editor of Kick-Ass (with Jon Harris and Pietro Scalia), the US number one commercial and critical hit, which was his third collaboration with producer / writer / director Matthew Vaughn. 
 
After 15 years in the industry Eddie has cut over 20 feature films (both indies and studio movies) in a wide variety of genres as well as TV dramas, documentaries and award-winning shorts. His enthusiasm for big screen storytelling is matched only by his total dedication to the craft of cutting, his world-class technical expertise and his undisputed love of chocolate.
 
As well as Kick-Ass, Eddie's studio movies include Sony Pictures' Resident Evil: Apocalypse, starring Milla Jovovich, which opened to number one at the US Box Office in October 2004, and went on to gross over $120m worldwide.

For Universal Pictures' DOA: Dead Or Alive, directed by legendary Hong Kong fight choreographer Cory Yuen, Eddie spent a year editing in Los Angeles during an intense post-production process, also supervising the visual effects, music, sound design, mixing and digital colour correction.
 
Eddie also cut Paramount Pictures' Mean Machine, starring Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham, and Sony Pictures' Swept Away, directed by Guy Ritchie (both produced by Matthew Vaughn).
 
Eddie edited his first award-winning feature Urban Ghost Story (directed by Genevieve Jolliffe, produced by Chris Jones) in 1997, and since then he's cut many independent films, including Dead Babies starring Paul Bettany and Olivia Williams, the comedy Club Le Monde directed by Simon Rumley, award-winning romantic thriller Mr. In-Between directed by Paul Sarossy, and gangster comedy Crime Spree directed by Brad Mirman, starring Gérard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel, which won the Audience Award at the 2003 Commonweath Film Festival.
 
Eddie's television dramas include the multiple Emmy award-winning The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie directed by Paul Johansson, produced by Nick Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands and James Caan, for the US Showtime network, and Shadows In The Sun, a warm-hearted family drama for ABC starring Harvey Keitel, Joshua Jackson, and Claire Forlani, which was his second collaboration with writer/director Brad Mirman. In 2007 he cut Impact Earth, a feature-length TV drama directed by Keith Boak for Darlow Smithson Productions, and in 2008 he cut U Be Dead, a two hour drama for ITV directed by Jamie Payne.
 
In autumn 2007 to spring 2008, Eddie spent six months editing the ten episode Special Edition of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's motorcycle documentary Long Way Down (a massive challenge given the 900 hours of raw material), which was shown in over 50 countries around the world. The show's producers immediately asked him to cut the first episode of Charley Boorman's follow-up documentary By Any Means, shown on the BBC in autumn 2008, and also re-edit their original series Long Way Round for BBC transmission.
 
Eddie has tutored students in film editing theory and practice at The London Film Academy, The London International Film School and The Metropolitan Film School, as well as lecturing on film post-production for Kodak. He's also a member of the BAFTA editing chapter, and was interviewed about editing for The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook and The Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook.
 



Jason Flemyng, Chris Mintz-Plasse, Eddie Hamilton & Jon Harris
in London at Movie-Con 2009 promoting KICK-ASS
Photo courtesy of EMPIRE magazine November 2009 Issue 245