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Joel Cox
Highest Rated: 96% Unforgiven (1992)
Lowest Rated: 18% 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.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 88% | Walden | Film Editor | - | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Day You Found Me | Film Editing | - | 2022 |
| 57% | 64% | Cry Macho | Film Editing | $10.3M | 2021 |
| 77% | 96% | Richard Jewell | Film Editing | $22.3M | 2019 |
| 70% | 66% | The Mule | Film Editing | $103.8M | 2018 |
| 41% | 62% | Den of Thieves | Film Editing | $44.9M | 2018 |
| 18% | 54% | All Eyez on Me | Film Editing | $44.9M | 2017 |
| 72% | 84% | American Sniper | Film Editing | $350.1M | 2014 |
| 51% | 62% | Jersey Boys | Film Editing | $47.0M | 2014 |
| 81% | 87% | Prisoners | Film Editing | $61.0M | 2013 |
| 51% | 66% | Trouble With the Curve | Film Editing | $35.8M | 2012 |
| 43% | 44% | J. Edgar | Film Editing | $37.3M | 2011 |
| 47% | 38% | Hereafter | Film Editing | $32.7M | 2010 |
| 76% | 75% | Invictus | Film Editing | $37.5M | 2009 |
| 81% | 90% | Gran Torino | Film Editing | $148.1M | 2008 |
| 62% | 82% | Changeling | Film Editing | $35.7M | 2008 |
| 91% | 86% | Letters From Iwo Jima | Film Editing | $13.8M | 2006 |
| 76% | 69% | Flags of Our Fathers | Film Editing | $33.6M | 2006 |
| 90% | 90% | Million Dollar Baby | Film Editing | $100.4M | 2004 |
| 89% | 89% | Mystic River | Film Editing | $90.1M | 2003 |
| 52% | 40% | Blood Work | Film Editing | - | 2002 |
| 78% | 53% | Space Cowboys | Film Editing | $90.4M | 2000 |
| 56% | 49% | True Crime | Film Editing | $16.6M | 1999 |
| 78% | 84% | A Perfect World | Film Editing | $29.7M | 1993 |
| 96% | 93% | Unforgiven | Film Editing | $100.0M | 1992 |
| 83% | 62% | White Hunter, Black Heart | Film Editing | $1.7M | 1990 |
| 77% | 79% | Bird | Film Editing | $1.5M | 1988 |
| 93% | 83% | Pale Rider | Film Editing | - | 1985 |
| 53% | 54% | Sudden Impact | Film Editing | - | 1983 |
| 41% | 56% | Every Which Way But Loose | Film Editing | - | 1978 |
| 75% | 54% | The Gauntlet | Film Editing | - | 1977 |
| 71% | 59% | The Enforcer | Film Editing | - | 1976 |
| 68% | 72% | Farewell, My Lovely | Film Editor | - | 1975 |