John Dunning (film editor)
John Dunning
Santa Monica, California, United States
John "Jack" D. Dunning (May 5, 1916 – February 25, 1991) was an American film editor who worked on several large-scale Hollywood movies from 1947 to 1970. He was an editor contracted to MGM Studios. While working with MGM, Dunning was picked by the famed director Frank Capra to collorabate with him on a World War II series of seven patriotic films for the American public, collectively called Why We Fight, produced from 1942 to 1945. This early relation with Capra honed his skills with a talented director and brought him to the professional recognition in the film world.
This recognition proved fruitful when the low-budget war film Battleground became a sleeper hit in 1949, earning critical praise and several Oscar nominations, including one for Best Film Editing.
Dunning worked on the remake of Show Boat (1951); Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar, an adaptation of Shakespeare's play (1953); and the Southern epic Raintree County (1957). In 1959 he won an Oscar for Best Film Editing, shared with Ralph E. Winters, for Ben-Hur. [1][2]
Dunning then moved to television, where he edited The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
Dunning retired in 1970. He was married to Ruth Dunning (née Danson). Together they had three children, John Dunning, Robert Dunning and Barbara Dunning. After Dunning retired, he and son Robert ran a winery in Paso Robles, California, Dunning Vineyards, which Robert began on his father's property in Malibu. Barbara Dunning followed her father into the editing business, working as a freelance editor on films such as Cocktail, Green Card and Die Hard 2.
At Dunning's funeral in 1991, Frank Capra and the senior staff of MGM were there to pay their respects.
Ben-Hur Wins Film Editing: 1960 Oscars
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^ "The 32nd Academy Awards (1960) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
^ Dirks, Tim. "Academy Awards Summaries". Filmsite.org. AMC Networks. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
John D. Dunning on IMDb
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Conrad A. Nervig (1934)
Ralph Dawson (1935)
Gene Havlick and Gene Milford (1937)
Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom (1939)
Anne Bauchens (1940)
William Holmes (1941)
Daniel Mandell (1942)
George Amy (1943)
Barbara McLean (1944)
Robert J. Kern (1945)
Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish (1947)
Paul Weatherwax (1948)
Harry W. Gerstad (1949)
Ralph E. Winters and Conrad A. Nervig (1950)
William Hornbeck (1951)
Elmo Williams and Harry W. Gerstad (1952)
William Lyon (1953)
Gene Milford (1954)
Charles Nelson and William Lyon (1955)
Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax (1956)
Peter Taylor (1957)
Adrienne Fazan (1958)
Ralph E. Winters and John D. Dunning (1959)
Thomas Stanford (1961)
Anne V. Coates (1962)
Harold F. Kress (1963)
Cotton Warburton (1964)
William Reynolds (1965)
Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo (1966)
Hal Ashby (1967)
Frank P. Keller (1968)
Françoise Bonnot (1969)
Hugh S. Fowler (1970)
Gerald B. Greenberg (1971)
David Bretherton (1972)
Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress (1974)
Verna Fields (1975)
Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad (1976)
Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and Richard Chew (1977)
Peter Zinner (1978)
Alan Heim (1979)
Thelma Schoonmaker (1980)
Michael Kahn (1981)
John Bloom (1982)
Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart (1983)
Jim Clark (1984)
Thom Noble (1985)
Claire Simpson (1986)
Gabriella Cristiani (1987)
Arthur Schmidt (1988)
David Brenner and Joe Hutshing (1989)
Neil Travis (1990)
Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia (1991)
Joel Cox (1992)
Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley (1995)
Walter Murch (1996)
Conrad Buff IV, James Cameron, and Richard A. Harris (1997)
Zach Staenberg (1999)
Stephen Mirrione (2000)
Pietro Scalia (2001)
Martin Walsh (2002)
Jamie Selkirk (2003)
Hughes Winborne (2005)
Christopher Rouse (2007)
Chris Dickens (2008)
Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009)
Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (2010)
William Goldenberg (2012)
Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013)
Tom Cross (2014)
Margaret Sixel (2015)
John Gilbert (2016)
Lee Smith (2017)
John Ottman (2018)
Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker (2019)
Best Film Editing became Best Editing in 1999
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