Lee Smith

Lee Smith Movies and TV Shows

Lee Smith was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004) and The Dark Knight (2008). He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for The Dark Knight and for Inception (2010). He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound for The Piano (1993). He began his career as a sound editor/sound designer for films such as Dead Calm (1989), The Piano (1993) (for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and Holy Smoke! (1999). Smith was also editing films during this interval; he was one of the editors for RoboCop 2 (1990). He began his notable collaboration with director Peter Weir on the 1982 film The Year of Living Dangerously, on which he was an associate editor working with Weir's longtime editor William M. Anderson. He was credited as a co-editor with Anderson for Fearless (1993) and for The Truman Show (1998). He was the sole editor for Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), for which Smith was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and for an "Eddie Award" from the American Cinema Editors. More recently, Smith has edited seven films with director Christopher Nolan. He was nominated for a second Academy Award and American Cinema Editors Award for The Dark Knight (2008). In 2010, he received another nomination for the American Cinema Editors Award for his editing work on Inception; Inception was listed as the 35th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. In 2018, he received an Academy Award for his work on Nolan's Dunkirk.

Personal info

  • Gender: Male
  • Date of birth: 6/10/1960 (64 years old)
  • Place of birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • nationality: Canadian
  • height: 1.78 m
  • Net worth: $8,000,000
Year
Genre
IMDB
TMDB
Available on the following streaming services in the United States
Argylle
IMDB 5.6
TMDB 61%
role:
Editor
2024

Action

Comedy

Crime

5.6
61%
2022

Drama

Romance

6.7
67%
The 355
IMDB 5.6
TMDB 61%
role:
Editor
2022

Action

Thriller

5.6
61%
1917
IMDB 8.2
TMDB 80%
role:
Editor
2019

Action

Drama

Thriller

War & Politics

8.2
80%
Dark Phoenix
IMDB 5.7
TMDB 60%
role:
Editor
2019

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.7
60%
The Dunkirk Spirit: Behind the Making of the Movie
IMDB 7.7
TMDB 77%
role:
Himself
Not available
2018

Documentary

7.7
77%
Not available
Dunkirk
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 75%
role:
Editor
2017

Action

Drama

War & Politics

7.8
75%
Spectre
IMDB 6.8
TMDB 65%
role:
Editor
2015

Action

Adventure

Thriller

6.8
65%
Interstellar
IMDB 8.7
TMDB 84%
role:
Editor
2014

Adventure

Drama

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.7
84%
Ender's Game
IMDB 6.6
TMDB 66%
role:
Editor
2013

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.6
66%
The Goldbergs
IMDB 8.0
TMDB 77%
role:
Editor
2013

Adventure

Drama

History

8.0
77%
Elysium
IMDB 6.6
TMDB 65%
role:
Editor
2013

Action

Drama

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.6
65%
2012

Action

Crime

Drama

Thriller

8.4
78%
2011

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.7
73%
Inception
IMDB 8.8
TMDB 84%
role:
Editor
2010

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.8
84%
2008

Action

Crime

Drama

Thriller

9.0
85%
The Prestige
IMDB 8.5
TMDB 82%
role:
Editor
2006

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

8.5
82%
Batman Begins
IMDB 8.2
TMDB 77%
role:
Editor
2005

Action

Crime

Drama

8.2
77%
2003

Adventure

Drama

War & Politics

7.5
71%
2002

Comedy

Crime

Drama

Thriller

War & Politics

6.7
63%
Holy Smoke
IMDB 5.9
TMDB 55%
role:
Sound Designer
1999

Comedy

Drama

5.9
55%
Two Hands
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 66%
role:
Editor
1999

Comedy

Crime

Thriller

7.1
66%
1998

Comedy

Drama

8.2
81%
Little Women
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 73%
role:
Sound Designer
1994

Drama

Romance

7.3
73%
Fearless
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 69%
role:
Editor
1993

Drama

7.1
69%
Chappelle's Show
IMDB 7.5
TMDB 74%
role:
Sound Designer
1993

Comedy

7.5
74%
RoboCop 2
IMDB 5.8
TMDB 60%
role:
Editor
1990

Action

Adventure

Crime

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.8
60%
Communion
IMDB 5.5
TMDB 53%
role:
Editor
1989

Drama

Horror

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.5
53%
Dead Calm
IMDB 6.8
TMDB 66%
role:
Sound Designer
1989

Horror

Thriller

6.8
66%
Howling III
IMDB 3.5
TMDB 47%
role:
Sound Editor
1987

Horror

3.5
47%
1986

Action

Horror

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.9
56%

FAQs

Some movies or TV shows available in the United States starring or involving Lee Smith are, for example, Argylle, Empire of Light and The 355.
The streaming services with the largest selection are Prime Video, Google Play and iTunes.
The best StreamFat ratings are The Dark Knight (8.8), Inception (8.6) and Interstellar (8.6).