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Joel Cox

Highest Rated: 96% Unforgiven (1992)

Lowest Rated: 17% All Eyez on Me (2017)

Birthday: Apr 2, 1942

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

Leading film editor has worked on most of Clint Eastwood's directorial efforts and other Eastwood projects since "The Enforcer" (1976). Cox began his career as a production assistant on Francis Coppola's "The Rain People" (1969). He moved to editing with "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975), and has since been one of Eastwood's core crew members, even working on former lover Sondra Locke's directorial debut "Rat Boy" (1986). As Eastwood's style has changed with his subject matter from film to film, so has Cox's editing, adapting with precision to the demands of the different genres--from the percussive, quick-paced actioners "The Enforcer" and "The Rookie" (1990) to the cool ease of the dark Charlie Parker biopic, "Bird" (1988) to the laconic Western classicism of "Unforgiven" (1992). The latter earned Cox his first Oscar.

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Highest-Rated Movies

96% 93% Unforgiven Watchlist 93% 91% Juror #2 Watchlist
93% 83% Pale Rider
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91% 86% Letters From Iwo Jima
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90% 90% Million Dollar Baby
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89% 89% Mystic River Watchlist
83% 62% White Hunter, Black Heart
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81% 87% Prisoners
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81% 90% Gran Torino Watchlist
78% 84% A Perfect World
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Filmography

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Juror #2 93% 91% 2024 Film Editor Without Blood 31% 2024 Film Editor Walden 63% 2023 Film Editor The Day You Found Me 2022 Film Editing Cry Macho 58% 64% 2021 Film Editing Richard Jewell 77% 96% 2019 Film Editing The Mule 70% 66% 2018 Film Editing Den of Thieves 42% 63% 2018 Film Editing All Eyez on Me 17% 54% 2017 Film Editing American Sniper 72% 84% 2014 Film Editing Jersey Boys 51% 62% 2014 Film Editing Prisoners 81% 87% 2013 Film Editing Trouble With the Curve 51% 66% 2012 Film Editing J. Edgar 44% 44% 2011 Film Editing Hereafter 48% 38% 2010 Film Editing Invictus 77% 75% 2009 Film Editing Gran Torino 81% 90% 2008 Film Editing Changeling 62% 82% 2008 Film Editing Letters From Iwo Jima 91% 86% 2006 Film Editing Flags of Our Fathers 76% 69% 2006 Film Editing Million Dollar Baby 90% 90% 2004 Film Editing Mystic River 89% 89% 2003 Film Editing Blood Work 51% 40% 2002 Film Editing Space Cowboys 78% 53% 2000 Film Editing True Crime 56% 49% 1999 Film Editing
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